 | Theology - 1836 - 532 pages
...and yet how compact the whole great effect. Listen to the following noble apostrophe. 1802. MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? Walton's Book... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...thee : she is a fen Of stagnant walers : aliar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall ana bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." Vol. ip 140. We make room for this other; though the four first lines arc bad, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O, raise us up ! return to us again; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. I. HE, most sublime of bards, whose lay divine Sung of the Fall of Man, was in his style Naked and... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 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...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED UPON WESTM1NSTEK BR1DGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he he... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 412 pages
...altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their aneient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, O ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties ou herself did lay." Works, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...Listen now to a noble apostrophe : — 1802. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England has need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " Meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? — Walton's... | |
 | Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...heroic wreath of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We ore selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself dia lay. XV. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better... | |
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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... 
