 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 268 pages
...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...earth, The beauty wore of promise — that which sets (To take an image which was felt no doubt Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - 1152 pages
...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...name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, 'ITie beauty wore of promise, that which sets {As at some moment might not be unfelt Among the bowers... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - English poetry - 1890 - 1012 pages
...custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! When Reason seemed the o thy banqueting-place in the sky. I Not favoured spots alone, but the whole Earth, The beauty wore of promise — that which sets (As... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1892 - 970 pages
...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...work, Which then was going forward in her name! Not favored spots aloneT, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at some... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 362 pages
...romance ! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself 10 A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then...name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, 1 This and the Extract, Vol. i. pages 197-199, and the first Piece of this Class, are from the unpublished... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 412 pages
...forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, 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.) He became, as he tells us, a patriot, adding : " And my heart was all Given... | |
 | 1893 - 678 pages
...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...work, Which then was going forward in her name."* Both George the Third and Queen Charlotte were much concerned at the character of the Revolution, and... | |
 | Robert Flint - France - 1893 - 778 pages
...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...the work Which then was going forward in her name." The ' Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de 1'Esprit Humain,' written by Marie - Jean - Antoine... | |
 | Robert Flint - France - 1893 - 794 pages
...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...the work Which then was going forward in her name." Tiie ' Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de 1'Esprit Humain,' written by Marie - Jean -... | |
 | Robert Flint - Belgium - 1893 - 744 pages
...custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance i When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of herself A prime enchantress—to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name." The ' Esquisse d'un Tableau... | |
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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! When Reason seemed the most to assert... 
