 Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town — To plough, loom, anvil, spade — and oh! most sad To that dry drudgery at the — desk's...  The Quarterly review - Page 4761853Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 608 lehte
...commend the perusal, with our best wishes, to the Utilitarians of England and America : — ' WORK. ' Who first invented Work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town — To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 lehte
...fortunate, how much of the spirit of Elia will you not recognize in these two brief poems ! " WORK. "Who first invented Work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town— the Friend, "human experience,... | |
 | 1857 - 336 lehte
...fortunate, how much of the spirit of " Elia" will you not recognise in these two brief poems ! — " WORK. " Who first invented Work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of busmess in the green fields, and the town, — To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1858 - 142 lehte
...sense command, Plucking the horror from a sightless face, Lending to blank deformity a grace. WORK. • WHO first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the "green fields, and the town — To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 lehte
...fortunate, how much of the spirit of " Elia" will you not recognise in these two brief poems !— « WORK. " Who first invented Work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town,— To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 lehte
...doctrine that men of thought and fancy require what is called leisure can be drawn from the "l. WORK. " Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town — To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 lehte
...gone, the old familiar faces. Old Familiar Faces. Books which are no books. Detached Thoughts on Books. Who first invented work and bound the free, And holiday-rejoicing spirit down. Work. To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 1772-1831 THE ANCIENT... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 lehte
...familiar faces. Old Familiar Faces. And half had stagger'd that stout Stagirite, Written at Cambridge. Who first invented work and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing...down To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood ? Sabbathless Satan ! Work. A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. Mrs. Battle1!... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 lehte
...gone, the old familiar faces. Old Familiar Faces. Books which are no books. Detached Thoughts on Boohs. Who first invented work and bound the free, And holiday-rejoicing spirit down. Worh. To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood. md. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 1772-1834. \ T 7"... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 462 lehte
...sense command, Plucking the horror from a sightless face, Lending to blank deformity a grace. WORK. WHO first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business in the green fields, and the town — To plough, loom, anvil,... | |
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