 MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 173by William Wordsworth - 1861 - 532 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...DISPUTE HIS STRENGTH AND GRANDEUR ? SIR EOERTOJf BRTDOES. MILTON ! THOU SBOULDST BE LIVING AT THIS BOOR. RETURN TO US AGAIN, AND GIVE US MANNERS, VIRTUE, FREEDOM,...A STAR, AND DWELT APART THOU HADST A VOICE, WHOSE SOOND WAS LIKE THE SEA : PURE AS THE NAKED HEAVENS, MAJESTIC, FREE; SO DIDST THOU TRAVEL ON LIFE'S... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1848 - 384 pages
...best and a sufficient advertisement of each reprint: " Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom,...common way In cheerful Godliness, and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WOUDSWOBTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 448 pages
...thee. She is a fen Of stagnant waters. We are selfish men. Thy soul was like a star; and dwelt apart; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." LORD BYRON. AN objection may meet us on the threshold of this,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1850 - 396 pages
...thee. She is a fen Of stagnant waters. We are selfish men. Thy soul was like a star ; and dwelt apart ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." LORD BYRON. AN objection may meet us on the threshold of this,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are sinful men; Oh raise us up! return to us again; And give...common way In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.' Let us now turn to another patriarch, and wander with his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the se Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Hare forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness....apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the i Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way. In cheerful... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...would break the stillness, let us exclaim— ' Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour. • * * Oh raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners,...the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, Majestic, free !' * This sublime and affecting production was but lately discovered among the remains of our great... | |
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