 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
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...the best ; No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us—repose, avarice, expense, This is the idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high...homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace and fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." Amid all these labours of love,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights ua. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. S LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England haul need of thee... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...much; And his unkimlness may defeat my life, But never taint my love." Well might Wordsworth say, " The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone, our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure rtligion breathing household laws." Fortunately, however, notwithstanding our present surfeit of transcendental... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 360 pages
...much ; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love " fell might Wordsworth say, " The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone, our...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." Fortunately, however, notwithstanding our present surfeit of transcendental crotchets and theories,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 386 pages
...mnch; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love " Well might Wordsworth say, " The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone, our...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." Fortunately, however, notwithstanding our present surfeit of transcendental crotchets and theories,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 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. I LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee :... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Essays - 1849 - 322 pages
...unbiest: 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.' And in a subsequent sonnet, riches are denounced for the fears which they generate. In October,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 378 pages
...The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...themselves as that grows towards maturity.' No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we...fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.' And in a subsequent sonnet, riches are denounced for the fears which they generate. In October... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; nnd these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homuly beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing... | |
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