 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...  The Friendship of Books, and Other Lectures - Page 244by Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...shattered walls, and replace the rotten frame-work which he had demolished. Restitution, .* " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need...pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Hare forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. [ XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON! Ihou ehould'st wide embrace Ol' institutions, and the forms of things ; As they exist, nnd bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...thine, Milton, whose genins had angelie wings, And fed on mauna. WORDSWORTH.^ MtLToN ! thou shonldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroie wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their aneient English dower Of inward happiness. We... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...this is the case may be seen from the sonnet to the memory of Milton, in 1802 : — " Miltoii. thou shouldst be living at this hour! England hath need...of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sioord, and pen, fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower. Have forfeited their ancient English... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...example of the chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1803. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath need...virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. London, 1802. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need...Of inward happiness. We are selfish men: Oh ; raise ns up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...wait." — Milton. I SECT. II.] ENGLISH HISTOET — PLANTAGENET LINE. 105 Milton ! thou should' st be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and Dower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. — We are selfish men ; Oh,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 pages
...this is the case may be seen from the sonnet to the memory of Milton, in 1802 : — " Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour! England hath need...of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sicord, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 364 pages
...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; O, raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul was like... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...breathing household laws, f XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTOS! thou «hould'st be living at this hour: England bath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar,...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Ob : raise us up, return to us again ; • Set Note. t See Note. And give us manners, virtue, freedom,... | |
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