 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...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 A prime Enchantress—to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name.' The Areopagitica reflects... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 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 of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone,... | |
 | Robert Flint - France - 1874 - 640 pages
...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 book of Condorcet is thoroughly characteristic of the time. Although written when its author... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance ! When I!(MHO)i 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 ! Not favoured spots alone,... | |
 | British and Foreign Unitarian Association - 1875 - 202 pages
...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 A prime enchantress, to assist the work Which was then going forward in her name." * Priestley himself was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1876 - 574 pages
...A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore...which sets (To take an image which was felt no doubt * Reprinted from "The Friend." Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 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 of herself A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 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 of herself A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...custom, law, and statute, took at once Tfie attraction of a country in romance ! When reison seemed the most to assert her rights, When most intent on making of lierself A prime enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in hername ! Not... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...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 ! Not favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise—that which sets (As at some... | |
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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... 
