 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 psl.
...extravagant stories in verse", and thinks that the "thirst after outrageous stimulation " has arisen from " the great national events which are daily taking place,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies". Here Wordsworth has well-nigh struck on the essential source of all the new movements in literature,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1901 - 302 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...effective of these causes are the great national events daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities." Page 189. — Robert Southey... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1909 - 422 psl.
...thought, a 'degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation.' The violent excitement of public events, and ' the increasing accumulation of men in cities,...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies,' had induced a torpor of mind which only yielded to gross and sensational effects — such effects as... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 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...gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the are not so limited as he may suppose ; and that it is possible for poetry to give other enjoyments,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 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...causes are the great national events which are daily 28 1802 : situation, . . . distinction, far 27 1802 : of being excited *• 1802 : know, that . . .... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 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...events which are daily taking place, and the increasing [150 accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 psl.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, place,1 and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 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...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, 1 Quoted by Matthew Arnold in his essay on Joubert. The passages specifically referred to by Chateaubriand... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 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...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, 1 Quoted by Matthew Arnold in his essay on Joubert. The passages specifically referred to by Chateaubriand... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 psl.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
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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... 
