 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...  Biographical Studies - Sivu 298tekijä(t) Walter Bagehot - 1889 - 398 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 sivua
...which was not corrected in the reprint, but stands a wonder to all generations. — ED. "The meager, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute...at once The attraction of a country in romance, And lively thought that they might be Called upon to exercise their skill, Not In Utopia, subterranean... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 466 sivua
...men still feared oppression from the government. Upon rninds thus predisposed, the French revolution of 1830 broke with magical power ; to the young generation it seemed like the fulfillment of their dreams. "The meager, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute took at... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 412 sivua
...exclamation: " Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven ! 0 times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law,...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - 1892 - 494 sivua
...£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... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1893 - 744 sivua
...between the divine and secular was now first accomplished"; "a time," says Wordsworth,— " In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law,...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... | |
 | 1893 - 678 sivua
...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 Of custom, law,...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 A prime enchantress... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1893 - 794 sivua
...between the divine and secular was now first accomplished " ; "a time," says Wordsworth, — " In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law,...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 A prime enchantress... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1894 - 328 sivua
...Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive ; But to be young was very heaven. 0 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 undergraduate at Cambridge, spent a college vacation... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1895 - 442 sivua
...men still feared oppression from the Government. Upon minds thus predisposed, the French Revolution of 1830 broke with magical power. To the young generation...still be — "called upon to exercise their skill Not in Utopia, subterranean fields, Or some secreted island, heaven knows where, But in the very world,... | |
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