请把以下段落中所有的名词和动词提取出来，并按字母顺序排列。自行选择是否区分动词的时态（如过去式、现在分词等）。



这是一段经典的英文段落：
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
动词：age, was, going, had, insisted, received

名词：belief, darkness, despair, epoch, foolishness, heaven, hope, incredulity, light, period, present period, season, superlative degree, times, wisdom