 | Christopher Booker - 2004 - 748 psl.
...times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and ... to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency ... the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves. The invaluable... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 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; or if he had an artistic conscience he could starve, unless he was lucky enough to have independent... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot - 2004 - 296 psl.
...he saw as the deterioration of the "discriminating powers of the mind" of his generation mostly to "the great national events which are daily taking...and the increasing accumulation of men in cities". I His generation was suhjected to political turmoil caused hy the French Revolution and its aftermath... | |
 | John C. Hampsey - 2004 - 236 psl.
...the "increasing accumulation of men in cities," the "uniformity of their occupations," which produce a "craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (Poetical Works, 792). (Wordsworth's idea of "rapid communication" was the sudden proliferation of... | |
 | Suman Gupta, David Johnson - 2005 - 338 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; or if he had an artistic conscience he could starve, unless he was lucky enough to have independent... | |
 | James Chandler, Kevin Gilmartin - 2005 - 324 psl.
...unknown to former times" which were "acting with a combined force" on the mind, one of the foremost was "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...communication of intelligence hourly gratifies."' But it would be a mistake simply to take at face value Wordsworth's claim that the salutary habits... | |
 | David G. Riede - 2005 - 236 psl.
..."savage torpor" were "the great national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing [sic] accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (Prose Works, 1: 128). 11. For a powerful reading of Kant's Critique of Judgment in these terms see... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 psl.
...outrageous stimulation" that took men (and women too) away from cultivation and refinement of sensibility: "a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He called, and no wonder, his and Coleridge's poems "short essays," offering them as part of "the present... | |
 | Kenneth Burke - 2007 - 329 psl.
...discriminating powers of the mind," bringing about "a state of almost savage stupor," Wordsworth writes: The most effective of these causes are the great national...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. "The rapid communication of intelligence hourly"; this is Wordsworth's resonant equivalent for "journalism."... | |
 | John Kenneth MacKay - 2006 - 321 psl.
...The Poems, ed. John O. Hayden, 2 vols. (London: Penguin Books, 1977), 1:867-96; here pp. 870-71. 46. "The most effective of these causes are the great...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies" (ibid., pp. 872-73). 47. "The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes... | |
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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... 
