| Leslie J. Workman, Kathleen Verduin, David Metzger, David D. Metzger - 1999 - 284 psl.
...Lanier he saw this literary decadence as the partial result of urbanization and commodification, of "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident. . . . To this tendency. . . the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed... | |
| Fred Inglis - 2000 - 234 psl.
...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...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. No doubt he was right, and would be even more right two hundred years later. His malediction, I suppose,... | |
| Michael Ryan - 2000 - 204 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 . . . ; reflecting upon the magnitude of the general evil, I should be oppressed with no dishonourable... | |
| Roberto Maria Dainotto - 2000 - 204 psl.
...causes, unknown in former times, are now acting ... to blunt the discriminating power of the mind. . . . The most effective of these causes are the great national...incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence [ie, the press, not "true" literature] hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature... | |
| Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 psl.
...forces 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...increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the un1formity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 psl.
...the foremost of these as 'the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies'. Setting the tone for a subsequent (high Romantic) dissociation of genius from urban conditions, Wordsworth... | |
| Richard F. Hardin - 2000 - 300 psl.
...especially the common man's passion for newspapers. Wordsworth again comes to mind, disparaging "the craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (Preface to Lyrical Ballads). Pardo Ba2an satiri2es this craving in Perucho's stepfather's newspaper... | |
| Mark Maslan - 2001 - 250 psl.
...both authors blame the same broad social changes for the problem. For example, Wordsworth complains of "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident." Nevertheless, there is an essential difference here. Wordsworth eschews "gross and violent stimulants"... | |
| Avital Ronell - 2002 - 380 psl.
...notes, are jonesing for the rapid-fire technology of communication; they have become indentured to "a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (1 -.872-73). And language cartels exploiting such cravings are on the rise: "The invaluable works... | |
| Adam Phillips - 2009 - 398 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 . . . When I think upon this degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation, I am almost ashamed to... | |
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