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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 American Historical Review, Volume 10

John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - Electronic journals - 1905 - 1032 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.'1 In Coleridge, the great...
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Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1906, Volume 3

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 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 ! Not favored spots alone,...
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909, Volume 3

Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 530 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 ! Not favored spots alone,...
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The Call of the Homeland: A Collection of English Verse

Robert Pickett Scott - English poetry - 1907 - 452 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 Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)

William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...forbidding ways [n0] 695 Gf 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...making of herself A prime Enchanter to assist the work, [115] 700 Which then was going forwards in her name. Not favour'd spots alone, but the whole earth...
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Theology in the English Poets: Cowper--Coleridge--Wordsworth and Burns

Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 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 ! Kot favoured spots alone, but the whole earth, The beauty wore of promise, that which sets (As at...
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Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics

James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 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...enchanter to assist the work Which then was going forwards in her name. [10:689-700] The importance of phenomenological dialectic in this passage is...
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Poetic Form and British Romanticism

Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 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! Not favoured spots alone,...
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Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...custom, law. and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in Romance! When Reason seem'cl the most to assert her rights, When most intent on...work, Which then was going forward in her name! Not lavour'd spots alone, but the whole earth The beautv wore of promise that which sets (To take an image...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 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! Not favoured spots alone,...
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