 | Frederick William Robertson - English essays - 1859 - 372 pages
...should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters: a)tar T sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 366 pages
...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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1859 - 370 pages
...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. xv. GKEAT men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, — better none... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1860 - 486 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...gaze, He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. GRAY. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. FAH above all the poets of his own age, and, in learning, invention, ana sublimity, without... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...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. W. Wordsworth When I have borne in memory what has tamed Great nations ; how ennobling thoughts depart... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...Greatness I thou art but a flattering dream, A watery bubble, lighter than the air. TEAUT. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. He who ascends to mountain tops shall find Their loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...altar, sword, and pen, * Andrew Marvell, in WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR'S Imaginary Conversations. MEMOIR. 11 Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Before bringing this Memoir to a conclusion, it will be necessary to consider the theology of Milton,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and Dower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. — Wordsworth, LESSON XXIX.— THURSDAY. ENGLISH HISTOET — PLANTA&ENET LINE. A short, sad reign,... | |
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh I raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest daties on herself did lay." One Sonnet more. It is in another key, and relates to Sir Walter Scott's... | |
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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... 
