 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 Oral Study of Literature - Page 322by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! MILTON.» Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this...English 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... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...Nature, but we refrain, asking our readers to go with us through one magnificent sonnet. ' Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are sinful men; Oh raise us up! return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 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...English 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 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...English 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
...Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! MILTON. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour;...English 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 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...virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : t Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic,... | |
 | England - 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...English 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... | |
 | 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...English 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...had angelic wings, And fed on manna. WOttUSvVOKTH.r. Mtt.Tov ! thon ihouldst be living at this hoar; England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Wo are selfish men ; 0, raise us up ! return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.... | |
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