 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To • this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...effective of these causes are the great National Events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extiaordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...Writer can be engaged ; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day. For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times,...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 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...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
....Writer can be engaged ; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day. For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times,...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...Writer can be engaged ; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day. For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times,...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | 1834 - 512 pages
...now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the NO. xxxn.—OCT. 1834. DD mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion,...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid commniiication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 pages
...Writer can be engaged; but this service, excellent at all times, is especially so at the present day. For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times,...which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
