 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...good example of the chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1803. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...of 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...dower 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! MILTON. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...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 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
...That 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...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... | |
 | 1854 - 760 pages
...however, may serve as a fair specimen of his brilliant qualities as a translator : — ** Milton ! tbou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need...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 a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 364 pages
...peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...appropriately closed than with the following noble sonnet by Wordsworth : — ' Milton! thou shouhl'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...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... | |
 | 1872 - 868 pages
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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... 
