 | Constance Smith - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...herself." part " One choice We have, to live and do just deeds and die." CHAPTER I OVER HILL, OVER DALE " The whole earth The beauty wore of promise ; that which sets The budding rose above the rose full-blown." A JUNE evening—such an evening as Keats might have sung of delightedly; sun-warmed,... | |
 | Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines. RUSKIN. THE whole earth The beauty wore of promise, that which sets The budding rose above the rose full-blown. WORDSWORTH. 129 God give you good rest ! COMEDY OP ERRORS iv. 3. TjlESTIVAL rest represented... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 476 pages
...Enchantress, to assist the work 19 Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favored spots aloue, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at some moments might not be unfelt Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 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 (As at some moment might not be unfelt '5 Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 362 pages
...custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! When Keason seemed the most to assert her rights. When most intent on making...the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Kot favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...custom, law, and statute took at once The attraction of a Country in Romance; When Reason seem'd the most to assert her 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
...topic of the very next clause, which perhaps makes the point even more plainly: "Reason seemed the most to assert her rights / When most intent on making of herself / A prime enchanter to assist the work / Which then was going forward in her name." This formulation implies... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
..."Reason seemed the most to assert her rights / When most intent on making of herself / A prime enchanter to assist the work / Which then was going forward in her name." This formulation implies a contradiction. The Reason of the enthusiasts wields its greatest authority... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 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 (As at some moments might not be unfelt Among the bowers of Paradise itself) The budding rose above... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 330 pages
...who were strong in love, Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!... Not favoured spots alone, but the whole 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... | |
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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... 
