Milton! thou shouldst 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 selfish... MacMillan's Magazine - Página 298editado por - 1873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 140 Great Men have been... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return, to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay, XV. Gu EAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered wisdom,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 1803. XV. GIIEAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 páginas
...rich jewel hanging in an Ethiop's ear. So, too, when Wordsworth apostrophizes Milton, — " Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea " ; — here we have two similes. But when he says, — " Unruffled doth the blue lake lie, The mountains... | |
| James Ogilvie - 1816 - 436 páginas
...up, O come to us again! And gire us, knowledge, freedom, virtue, power' Thy soul was like a star mid dwelt apart! Thou had'st a voice, whose sound was like the sea' So did'st thou travel o'er life's eommon road In cheerful godliness: and yet thy heart, The lowliest... | |
| 1854 - 758 páginas
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give ui manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia : Quae, more coeoosie paludis,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none :... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 páginas
...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none :... | |
| 1836 - 698 páginas
...inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us mii1iners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did l.-iv.' vol. ii. p. 329. His esteem for the great men of English history rises to a sublime... | |
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