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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 selfish... "
The Oral Study of Literature - Page 322
by Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 431 pages
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, with a life of the author

William Wordsworth - 1876 - 564 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 : Oh I raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. JOHN DRYUEN. TO MILTON. MILTON ! thon 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...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two. JOHN DRYDEN. TO 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, jiower. Thy soul was...
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A Milton Encyclopedia, Volume 8

William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...the highest tribute paid the genius of Milton is Wordsworth's finest sonnet, "London, 1802" : 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 like...
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Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies

J. Edward Chamberlin - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
..."London, 1802," with its catalogs of praise and its relatively clear, uncomplicated language. Milton! thou should'st 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 like...
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Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History

Michael O'Brien - History - 1993 - 292 pages
...only from Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" but from Wordsworth's sonnet, "London, 1802": 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. It was the cry of...
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Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' in Modern Writing

David Gervais - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 304 pages
...herself like a strong man after sleep'. But the continuity he hoped to cement was already broken: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Even if such poems are more than the ' declamatory claptrap '* which Leavis dismissed them as being,...
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Selected Poems

William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. London, 1802 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 like...
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A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-era Revival, 1750-1850

Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - English poetry - 1999 - 306 pages
...friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and Man's unconquerable mind. 217. London, 1802 Milton! thou should'st 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 like...
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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind. London, 1802 Milton!1 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 like...
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