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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... "
The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record - Page 394
1834
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...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...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

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...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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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...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...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...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...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...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,...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...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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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two ..., Issue 356, Volume 1

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...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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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...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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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 4

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...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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