 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 of these...  The Quarterly Review - Página 1291876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Wordsworth - 1883 - 406 páginas
...taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupation produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 páginas
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 páginas
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 páginas
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 páginas
...extravagant stories in verse", and thinks that the "thirst after outrageous stimulation " has arisen from " the great national events which are daily taking place,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies". Here Wordsworth has well-nigh struck on the essential source of all the new movements in literature,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1905 - 292 páginas
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 páginas
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1909 - 422 páginas
...thought, a 'degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation.' The violent excitement of public events, and ' the increasing accumulation of men in cities,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies,' had induced a torpor of mind which only yielded to gross and sensational effects — such effects as... | |
 | 1910 - 482 páginas
...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...communication of intelligence | hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 páginas
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, ts', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to...130 The Muse2 but served to ease some friend, not To this- tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
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