...about to take up their permanent abode with humanity. As Wordsworth enthusiastically wrote : "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven." In 1791 Barlow visited London, where he found Society broken into two factions, those favoring the...

...well-known words, when he recalled the French Revolution and the hopes of his youth : — " Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven." Perhaps you will say of this time and of this moment what Holmes said of the generation to whose sacrifices...

...the astonished sight. William Wordsworth immortalised that frame of mind in The Prelude: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive And to be young was very heaven. And Coleridge, his friend and collaborator, vividly recalled how 'from the general heart of human kind...

...University's Institute of Government, was a student then and found, with some help from Wordsworth: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, and to be young was very heaven! And we were young." The campus was a meeting ground for the Old South and the New. The four hundred...

...for new research. For experimental scientists the mid-seventeenth century was a Golden Age: Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very Heaven! And Boyle was like the Elephant's Child: his curiosity was insatiable, and he was always happy, provided...

...stimulating and encouraging environment of his times, which witnessed the French Revolution : 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive And to be young was very heaven.' Environment Pollution by N. Manivasakam, National Book Trust, India. At the same time, he reacted sharply...

...conscious nationalist movement. As Wordsworth noted, this can be the most idealistic phase: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive / And to be young was very heaven."' 3 However, the pre-existing mechanism for consultation and representation was also influential. The...

...see the triumph of your ideals! I kept thinking of Wordsworth and the French Revolution: 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, and to be young was very heaven!' Certainly it was bliss for me to think of all those wretched, downtrodden people freed from their own...

...world, I recalled Wordsworth's lines written in the early years of the French Revolution: Twas bliss in that dawn to be alive And to be young was very heaven. But Reengineering, like all utopias, was built on illusion. In an age of complicated systems, both...

...one time offered to a warring humanity. What has gone wrong since those heady days when, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, And to be young was very heaven"? The democracies we inherit today seem hardly to merit the name when great unaccountable power has accumulated...