 | Kenneth R. Johnston - 1998 - 1018 pages
...'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 pages
...of modern life which "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" (1983: 124). James Wright meditates on the truth of... | |
 | Bernhard Kettemann, Georg Marko - 1999 - 330 pages
...of modern life which "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" (1983:124). James Wright meditates on the truth of... | |
 | Anne Quéma - 1999 - 248 pages
...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... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1999 - 180 pages
...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...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. 2 If the quiet mood in which poetry arises, according... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - 1999 - 348 pages
...be stimulated by ordinary sights and events, by "common life" and "elementary feelings," because of "the great national events which are daily taking...craving for extraordinary incident which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." He also lambasted, for good measure, "frantic novels,... | |
 | Paul Keen - 1999 - 318 pages
...William Wordsworth refers to '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'.21 The attempts of authors (many of whom were involved... | |
 | Leslie J. Workman, Kathleen Verduin, David Metzger, David D. Metzger - 1999 - 284 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael Ryan - 2000 - 204 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 . . . ; reflecting upon the magnitude of the general... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - 2000 - 346 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 volun-tary 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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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... 
