| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 406 páginas
...came uppermost. The enthusiasm which Wordsworth has described was swelling everywhere — " Good was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven ! " For was it not the sunrise of freedom, and of a universal bettering of mankind and purifying of... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1882 - 362 páginas
...came uppermost. The enthusiasm which Wordsworth has described was swelling everywhere — " Good was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven ! " For was it not the sunrise of freedom, and of a universal bettering of mankind and purifying of... | |
| 1903 - 432 páginas
...hear that everything was so bright and beautiful when you were young. I have no doubt '' Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, and to be young was very Heaven." The only thing I say is, Don't grow too old. I say, Be like the Bible, the grace of God, and the work... | |
| Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1907 - 848 páginas
...lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor " ! The soldier of mankind is never mustered out. " Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very Heaven." Are we indeed to congratulate ourselves to-day, fellow members of the Free Religious Association, because... | |
| Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 440 páginas
...Germany in 1798-99, when Wordsworth met the great Klopstock, and Coleridge was studying Kant : Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very Heaven, — is Wordworth's tribute in The Prelude to the illumination of those years ; and Coleridge, writing... | |
| Manmathanātha Ghosha - 1911 - 264 páginas
...preceptor of his joyous prime, that we could not help exclaiming with the Poet of Nature — "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven." While at College, Shib Chunder was noted for his proficiency in the higher Mathematics, which included... | |
| 1911 - 1082 páginas
...no case could such a man, even had he lived ten years longer, have shared the feeling that Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive And to be young was very Heaven. But then Bentham himself had no sympathy with revolutionary enthusiasm, and detested the doctrine of... | |
| Juan C. Abel, Charles L. Abel - 1918 - 480 páginas
...Stamp a day will keep the K»is«r away. PHOTOGRAPHER'S WEEKLY PAGE 333 ET TLocal Manipulation LISS was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven," wrote the poet Wordsworth, referring to those stirring times, about a century and a quarter ago, when... | |
| 1921 - 322 páginas
...had had, with some others, in the enthusiasms of the early days of the French Revolution : "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, and to be young was very heaven." But Wordsworth spoke regretting the disillusionments that had followed on his youthful ecstasies. I... | |
| Arthur Gray - 1927 - 434 páginas
...importance in English literature — ST Coleridge of Jesus. CHAPTER XII. Coleridge and Wordsworth Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven! Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law and statute took at once The... | |
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