 O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 61828Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - Liberty - 1897 - 104 pages
...now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy- work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 288 pages
...that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We mast run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...the image in Written in London, September 1802, 5, 6, where " show " is stigmatized : ' We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." 3-6. altar ...happiness. The Church, the Army, Literature, the Family, and Society have lost what our... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Andrew Lang - English literature - 1897 - 342 pages
...now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | English poetry - 1899 - 788 pages
...our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, 5 Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandcur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1899 - 342 pages
...is only drest September For show ; mean handy- work of craftsman, cook, l8o2 Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | 1901 - 526 pages
...assertion if well founded. If this were truth in the morning of the nineteenth century : We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest ; The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1901 - 494 pages
...now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest ; The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...copy mentioned on page 200.] For show — mere handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! we must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest; The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us — rapine,... | |
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