 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 pages
...spectacle ! " 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,...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 - 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...LONDON, 1802. 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,...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 :... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 pages
...dies. Milton. 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,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...still! MILTON." 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,...; 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... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...wealth of 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men: Oh ; raise ns up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue,...sea: Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst'thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...few! MILTON. 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,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. First roused thee. 0 true yoke-fellow of time, With unabating effort, see, the palm Is won,... | |
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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... 
