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 Monthly Christian spectator - Página 6421859Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Wilson - 1842 - 414 páginas
...wealth of hall 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, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul ivas like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 páginas
...wealth of hall 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, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul teas like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 páginas
...suffering, dignity by lowliness ? " Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth: " Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." He laid on himself the lowliest duties. Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with " great... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient...clown : Perhaps the «elf-same song that found a didst lay. The World is Too Much with Га. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; ОЫ of pence attend his eong, And draw their milky train along. He jars didst lay. The World is Too Much with Fs. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting and... | |
| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...wealth of hall 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...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadft a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst... | |
| 1926 - 750 páginas
...literary question cannot be understood. What Wordsworth wrote of another was true of himself: — Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...the sea. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. The vision and faculty divine of his earlier genius, differing almost inexplicably from anything there... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...wealth of hall 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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAIHT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the whistling rustic tend his... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 páginas
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none :... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...DISPUTE HIS STRENGTH AND GRANDECR? SIR EQERTOJf BRTDOES. 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. WORD8WORTB. IN TWO VOLUMES. I. PHILADELPHIA: HERMAN HOOKER, PUBLISHER, No. 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET,... | |
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