 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 472 pages
...passionate exclamation : " Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven 1 O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways...took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole Earth, The beauty wore of promise." (" Prelude," book xi.)... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 362 pages
...alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways 6 Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself 10 A prime Enchantress... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - History, Modern - 1892 - 494 pages
...revenue of over £1,000,000. I " Blln was It In that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven IO times In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at oneo The attraction of a country in romance I Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth The beauty... | |
 | 1893 - 678 pages
...we who were strong in love ! Bliss was in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! Oh times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways...The attraction of a country in romance ! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime enchantress —... | |
 | Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 566 pages
...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven! O times In which the meager, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute...took at once The attraction of a country in romance! But most of the responses that have come down to us, like Wordsworth's, have been dulled and distorted... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...alive, But to be young was very heaven; O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways [n0] 695 Gf custom, law, and statute took at once The attraction...rights When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchanter to assist the work, [115] 700 Which then was going forwards in her name. Not favour'd spots... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...who were strong in love. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways...attraction of a country in romance — When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights When most intent on making of herself A prime enchanter to assist... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...cultural romance to well over. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven! O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways...The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights When most intent on making of herself A prime enchantress —... | |
 | Fredric Jameson - Philosophy - 1988 - 241 pages
...whole. 1983 Chapter 4 Of Islands and Trenches Neutralization and the Production of Utopian Discourse O times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways...took at once The Attraction of a Country in Romance. . . Wordsworth Not the least unexpected thing about the 1960s was its reinvention of the question of... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...strong in love! Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. But to be young was very heaven ! oh ! limes. In which the meagre stale forbidding ways Of custom,...The attraction of a country in Romance! When Reason seem'cl the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchanter to assist... | |
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance... 
