 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!  Littell's Living Age - Page 1371871Full view - About this book
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 lehte
...dawn to he alive, But to he young was very Heaven ! O times. In which the meagre, stale, forhidding ! Not favoured spots alone, hut the whole Earth, The heauty wore of promise — that which sets (As... | |
 | John Milton - 1882 - 216 lehte
...dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! Oh ! times In which the meagre, stale, forbidden ways Of custom, law, and statute took at once The...rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress—to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name.' The Areopagitica reflects... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 412 lehte
...sentiment of the time. " 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,...took at once The attraction of a country in romance." Nothing could be farther from the nature of this serious youth than the noise and din of revolution;... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 lehte
...strong in love. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, lint to be young was very heaven ! — Oh ! times In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom,...her rights, When most intent on making of herself 10 A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1883 - 452 lehte
...seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime Enchantress2 — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 lehte
...could write — " Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, Bat to bo young was very heaven ! O times ! In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom,...took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! " And of the next ten and more could add — r-Perpetaal emptiness ! unceasing change! No eiiv?le... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1884 - 570 lehte
...young was very heaven ; — Oh ! times, In which (he meagre stale forbidding ways Of custom, law, mid statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance; When reason seeni'd the ino:t t<> assert her right*, When most inU-nt on making of herself A prime enchanter to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 lehte
...strong in love ! 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,...A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which was then going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 lehte
...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. Oh times In which the meager, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute...took at once The attraction of a country in romance." Those were the days in which Wordsworth, then an under-graduate at Cambridge, spent a college vacation... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere - 1887 - 434 lehte
...commencement " — 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 Of custom,...most intent on making of herself A prime enchantress. The cause of this memorable change in Wordsworth's political convictions is set forth in one of his... | |
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