 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pagina’s
...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 are...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse,— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pagina’s
...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 are...novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges bf idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pagina’s
...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, are...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 pagina’s
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1814 - 216 pagina’s
...gratify, the taste of society has become so vitiated and so accustomed to gross stimulants, such as " frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse," as to require the counteraction of some simpler and more primitive food, •which should... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pagina’s
...effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.— When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pagina’s
...conformed themselves. The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakspeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels,...Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pagina’s
...conformed themselves. The invaluable works of our elder writers, I hid almost said the works of Shikspetre and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, aud deluge* of idle and extravagant stories in verse. — When T think upon this degrading thirst after... | |
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... 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 conformed themselves. The invaluable works of our... 
