 eyes to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy: ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause...  The Quarterly Review - Page 1301916Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. VOL. III. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...blest : The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. whilst I bring laws. LONDON, 1802. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee:... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense. This is idolatry; and these...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...among us is the bc-sl : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expenee, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking arc no more : Tlie homely beauty of the good old cause In ц mu'; our peace, nur fearful innocence,... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these...no more The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone,—our peace, our fearful innocence, Aud pure Religion, breathing household laws." Seldom has... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pages
...unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these...no more The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone,—our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure Religion, breathing household laws." Seldom has... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 376 pages
...beet: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolfttrv ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking...no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause I« gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV.—LONDON,... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1837 - 256 pages
...word and promise in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. From your faithful and afflicted "W. JONES. Plain living- and high thinking are no more ; The...innocence, And pure Religion, breathing household laws. WORDSWORTH. I AN AUTUMN THOUGHT. SAD was I, and if Hope was mine, That Hope was almost Fear :... | |
 | William Gresley - 1841 - 290 pages
...seventy-seventh canon. CHAPTER VI. Statr of affairs at 3,,-u-ington burins our 1?pro's Jtttnoritg. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. • . . England is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth... | |
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