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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... "
The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles ... - Page 32
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1837
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The Poetical Works of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...custom, law, anJ 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 torward in her name ! Not favored spots alone,...
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The Story of English Literature

Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 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,...
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The Story of English Literature

Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 562 pages
...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 The budding rose above the rose full blown. What temper at the prospect did not wake To happiness unthought...
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The Story of English Literature

Anna Jane Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 544 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 The budding...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 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 10 A prime Enchantress — to assist the work Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured...
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Selections from Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 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 was then going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone,...
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Ros rosarum ex horto poetarum: Dew of the ever-living rose gathered from the ...

Eleanor Vere Boyle - Poetry - 1885 - 322 pages
...viewless wren Is warbling near the Brownie's Den. Wordsworth. (" The Brownie's Cell.") OT favoured spots alone, but the whole earth The beauty wore of promise — that which sets * # * * The budding Rose above the Rose full-blown. Wordsworth. HEN she I loved was strong and gay...
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Essays Chiefly on Poetry, Volume 1

Aubrey De Vere - English essays - 1887 - 434 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. The cause of this memorable change in Wordsworth's political convictions is set forth...
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Early Poems

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 of herself A prime Enchantress — to assist the work, Which then was going forward in her name ! Not favoured spots alone,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth, John Morley (viscount) - English poetry - 1890 - 1012 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 I Not favoured spots alone, but the whole Earth, The beauty wore of promise — that which sets (As...
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