 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which to the open sea Of the world's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners,...as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou trav 1 on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself... | |
 | 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,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." One should have climbed to as high a point as Wordsworth to be able to review Milton, or even to view... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WOUDSWOBTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...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 us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.' Let us now turn to another patriarch, and wander with his shade. Samuel Rogers was a poet. Not a great... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; Note. t See Note. jesty, Dazzling the vision that presumes to gaze. , cuinmon way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...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
...and bower, Hare forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again : And give us manners,...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... | |
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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... 
