 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - 478 psl.
...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...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
 | Steven Earnshaw - 1997 - 340 psl.
...discriminating powers of the mind ... to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor'. One of these causes is 'the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies', that is, the first forms of mass culture (1961 :735). However, it is with Baudelaire and Sue that the... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 psl.
...trivial ostentation: one thinks of Wordsworth's criticism in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads of the "craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" and of the "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 psl.
...(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). Wordsworth's own list ot "the most effective of these causes" includes "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (1 :28). 72. John Stuart Mill, "Letter to Gustave d'Eichthal, 30 November 1 83 1 ," in Collected Ili>rfa,... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 psl.
...'blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and . . . reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor'] are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | Bernhard Kettemann, Georg Marko - 1999 - 330 psl.
...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" (1983:124). James Wright meditates on the truth of Wordsworth's plea for poetry almost two centuries... | |
 | Bernhard Kettemann, Georg Marko - 1999 - 330 psl.
...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" (1983: 124). James Wright meditates on the truth of Wordsworth's plea for poetry almost two centuries... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1999 - 180 psl.
...journalism with the coffee bean. The worst of the coarsening forces at work, writes Wordsworth in 1800, are the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. 2 If the quiet mood in which poetry arises, according to Wordsworth, seems contrary to the agitation... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 psl.
...be stimulated by ordinary sights and events, by "common life" and "elementary feelings," because of "the great national events which are daily taking...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He also lambasted, for good measure, "frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies, and deluges... | |
 | Anne Quéma - 1999 - 248 psl.
...former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind ... to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where die uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid... | |
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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... 
