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... Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics - Page 236by Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 308 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1832 - 542 lehte
...liberatress of the world, which he predicted she was to play. He fondly complained that altar, sword and peu, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. If each single word of this complaint be well meditated, it opens all the characteristic glories of... | |
| 1833 - 240 lehte
...should thunder as before, And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, 200 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1802. MILTON! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bowe Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 972 lehte
...dignified solemnity with which ' Milton, you are wanted,' is paraphrased by Wordsworth into ' Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : ' It betokened a homelier want than that expressed by the great poet of his greater predecessor.... | |
| 1835 - 932 lehte
...which once wan great is pass 'd away." Vol. ip 132. The following is entitled "London:" — " Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant walers : aliar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall ana bower, Have forfeited their... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 lehte
...MODERN POETS OREAT REFORMERS : Hare forfeited their ancient English dower [; Of inward happiness. We arc selfish men: Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power 1 This, in faith, is most marvellous language for a Tory ! Nothing less than Republicanism, the purest... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 lehte
...of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. LONDON, liJO'J. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their aneient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 lehte
...of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton hlow his wreathed horn. LONDON, 1802. M1LTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1838 - 508 lehte
...< If inward happiness. We arc selfish men ; • Hi ! raise us ii|>, return to us again ; And «ivr us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : • Thou hailst a voice whose sound was like the no» : I'uru as the naked lieiivens, majestic, frei'. A didst... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 lehte
...Continent, June 21, 1655, demanding indemnification, and sent pecuniary aid to the sufferers. " Milton 1 thou should'st be living at this hour ; England hath...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; 0 raise us up ! return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like... | |
| 1839 - 510 lehte
...that we have stated, but also as a splendid tribute to the greatest of bards : — " MILTON ! them should'st be living at this hour : England hath need...stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, th' heroic wealth of hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness.... | |
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