 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 - Page 1291876Full view - About this book
 | 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To • this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...the increasing accumulation •' men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produce*; a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | 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
...daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of then- occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
| |
