 | Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 pages
...unknown to former times, are now acting with combined forces to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion,...increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the un1formity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication... | |
 | Roberto Maria Dainotto - 2000 - 204 pages
...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...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence [ie, the press, not "true" literature] hourly gratifies. To this tendency... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 pages
...that 'a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with combined force to blunt the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion,...to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor', Wordsworth identified the foremost of these as 'the great national events which are daily taking place,... | |
 | Mark Maslan - 2001 - 250 pages
...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"... | |
 | Adam Phillips - 2009 - 398 pages
...former times/ he wrote, 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 . . . When I think upon this degrading thirst after... | |
 | Massimo Verdicchio, Robert Burch - 2002 - 232 pages
...causes, unknown to former times, are now acting to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind. . . . The most effective of these causes are the great national...uniformity of their occupations produces a craving or extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. William... | |
 | Riccardo Dottori - 2003 - 452 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.4 A few years later, in 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,... | |
 | Jon Mee - 2005 - 342 pages
...unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating power of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving... | |
 | Susan Sontag - 2004 - 146 pages
...Wordsworth, in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, denounced the corruption of sensibility produced by "the great national events which are daily taking...craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." This process of overstimulation acts "to blunt the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 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...most effective of these causes are the great national events8 which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity... | |
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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... 
