DISCOURSE was deemed man's noblest attribute, And written words the glory of his hand ; Then followed printing with enlarged command For thought, dominion vast and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute... The Newspaper and the Historian - Página 378por Lucy Maynard Salmon - 1923 - 566 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 páginas
...written words the glory of his hand ; books and Then followed Printing with enlarged command newspapers For thought — dominion vast and absolute For spreading...expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land. A backward movement... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 416 páginas
...by statute, draw Each from his fountain of self-sacrifice ! xxxiv. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS. DISCOURSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And...; Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought—dominion vast .and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and verse... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 750 páginas
...— these only yield secure relief. Jfeix* &A, 1842. XIV. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS. DMCOCBSE was deemed man's noblest attribute, And written words...expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb art that best can suit The taste of this once intellectual land. A backward movement... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 páginas
...these only yield secure relief. Jtonk etJt, 1M2. XIV. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS. Disoounst: underneath what grove Shall I take up my home? and...grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, wh Musi lacquey a dumb art that best can suit The taste of this once intellectual land. A backward movement... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 páginas
...or snares, / A happier, brighter, purer Heaven than theirs. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS. 1840. DISCOURSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And...; Then followed Printing with enlarged command For thought—dominion vast and absolute For spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose nnd verse... | |
| William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 páginas
...among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days. XIV. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPERS. DISCOUBSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And written words...expand. Now prose and verse sunk into disrepute Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual Land. A backward movement... | |
| 1893 - 930 páginas
...not appear to have had much effect, but which seems to express our contemporary's views exactly: " Discourse was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And...spreading truth, and making love expand. Now prose and rerae, sunk into disrepute, Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once intellectual... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1873 - 434 páginas
...graphic art as at once useless and childish. " Now prose and verse, sunk into disrepute, Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste of this once-intellectual...land. A backward movement surely have we here, From manhood—back to childhood ; for the age— Back towards caverned life's first rude career. A vaunt... | |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1874 - 420 páginas
...graphic art as at once useless and childish. " Now prose and verse, sunk into disrepute, Must lacquey a dumb Art that best can suit ! The taste of this...here, From manhood — back to childhood ; for the ageBack towards cavernedjife's first rude career. Avaunt this vile abuse of pictured page ! Must eyes... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1878 - 1112 páginas
...numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days. XIV. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND NEWSPAPEU& DISCOURSE was deemed Man's noblest attribute, And...and absolute For spreading truth, and making love exoand. Now prose and verse sunk into di.-repute Must lackey a dumb Art that best can suit The taste... | |
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