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
| Henry Ware - 1846 - 400 páginas
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| Margaret Fuller - 1848 - 384 páginas
...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... | |
| 1848 - 602 páginas
...thee. She is a (en 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 thou travel on life's common war, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." From the Dublin... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 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. GREAT men have been among ue ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none :... | |
| 1849 - 770 páginas
...Thy soul \vas like a star, and dwelt apart; 'I hou hadst a voice whose suuu;l was like the sea; I'ure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common Vay." We hear the roar of the sea ; the voice, in English literature, is as that of Niagara among waters.... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 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. WOUDSWOBTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1850 - 448 páginas
...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...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." LORD BYRON. AN objection may meet us on the threshold of this, as well as on that... | |
| John Milton - 1850 - 564 páginas
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| George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 páginas
...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...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." LORD BYRON. AN objection may meet us on the threshold of this, as well as on that... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 páginas
...involuntarily to him these lines of Wordsworth on Milton : " His soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ! He had a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So did he travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness, and yet his heart The lowliest duties on... | |
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