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" 248, note I. A motto for those days in New England might have been the words put in Rob Roy's mouth by Wordsworth : — Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; We '11 show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 423
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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The Children's Bower; Or, What You Like, Volume 1

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...which comes nearest to the universal sympathy, the heart, the home, the thought of every one of us*!" " Of old things, all are over old, Of good things, none are good enough. We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff." It is then the sorrow of common life,...
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the poetical works of william wordsworth

WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...our part; Becoming, that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpass'd In fatherly concern. "Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough :— We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. " I, too, will have my kings that...
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The Children's Bower; Or, What You Like, Volume 1

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...which comes nearest to the universal sympathy, the heart, the home, the thought of every one of us*!" " Of old things, all are over old, Of good things, none are good enough. We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff." It is then the sorrow of common life,...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakespeare

Henry Reed - 1860 - 474 pages
...looked upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of selfsufficiency which vaunts, that " Of old things, all are over old: Of good things, none are good enough: We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff."* It is this victory of Hermann over the...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakspeare

Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...looked upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of selfsufficiency which vaunts, that " Of old things, all are over old: Of good things, none are good enough : We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff."* It is this victory of Hermann over...
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Lectures on English History and Tragic Poetry, as Illustrated by Shakspeare

Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of self.. sufficiency which vaunts, that “Of old things, all are over old: Of good things, none are good enough: We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff.”¿ It is this victory of Hermann over...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...our part; Becoming, that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpassed In fatherly concern. Of old things all are over old, Of good things none...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death: Kingdoms shall shift about...
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Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria, Volume 1

Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos - 1861 - 468 pages
...inexperienced in the science of government, announced authoritatively in the words of Wordsworth's hero ¿— “Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough; We'll ¿how that we ¿i help to frame A world af other stuff.” And pretty stuff they made of it....
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...lead to. But still what urges it on is in the main a sort of blind passion. It merely feels that " of old things all are over old, of good things none are good enough." The case is like that of a people seized with a passion of emigration. It is true that we cannot dispense...
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The Journal and Correspondence of William, Lord Auckland, Volume 4

William Eden (Baron Auckland.), William Eden Baron Auckland - 1862 - 882 pages
...inexperienced in the science of government, announced authoritatively in the words of Wordsworth's hero:— : Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff." And pretty stuff they made of it. As...
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