 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 selfish...  Choice Specimens of English Literature - Página 373editado por - 1870 - 477 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...good example of the chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...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 was... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...sonnet« of Wordsworth dedicated to liberty and inspired by patriotism. Sonncti. London, 1C02. Milton ! . Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! Close ; Oh! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...Sonnets. London, 1808. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thce ; 'm dead. [The Hebrew Bard.] » « * Softly the tuneful...divine, While fountains spring with oil and wine. ; ОЫ raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | 1845 - 596 páginas
...and huge Fantastic pomps of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous enwrapped. SONNET. ON MILTON. " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this...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 was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 páginas
...our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, l802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath...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 was... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 páginas
...fearful innocence, XIV. S LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England haul need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 páginas
...true sway doth mount ; this is the stalk True power doth grow on ; and her rights are these. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...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 was... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 páginas
...the neck of the grim old tyrant even with tears and kisses. What a disgraceful spectacle ! " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...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 was like... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 páginas
...clergy. That this is the case may be seen from the sonnet to the memory of Milton, in!802 : — " Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour ! England hath...their ancient English dower Of inward happiness." Here, church, state, and the whole society of England are represented as " a fen of stagnant waters."... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 páginas
...munus amore iuvat. Ipse brevi rorem défendit flosculus umbra, Ne nimio sitiens sorbeat igne dies. Milton. Milton ! thou should'st be living at this...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 was like... | |
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