 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating' powers of the mind, and by unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...National Events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most the style, and raise it above prose. I have proposed to myself to imitate, and, as far as is possible,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to 3 stile of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these...daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation •' men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produce*; a craving for extraordinary... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...discriminating powers of the NO. xxxn.—OCT. 1834. DD mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid commniiication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of ahuost savage torpor. The most effeetive of these causes are the great national events which...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of then- occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 386 pages
...mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpgr. The most effective of these causes are the great national...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid conmilri'''gt'"rl of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 384 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation, pf men,. in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the min. 1, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of HUT occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
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For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective... 
