 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 Seiten
...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...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 Seiten
...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...craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 Seiten
...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...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 Seiten
...times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating' powers of the mind, and by unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce...National Events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 Seiten
...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...reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most the style, and raise it above prose. I have proposed to myself to imitate, and, as far as is possible,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...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...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1805 - 284 Seiten
...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...craving for extraordinary incident., which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...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...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 Seiten
...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...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 Seiten
...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,...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication 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 of these... 
