 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...  Parnassus - Sida 264redigerad av - 1874 - 534 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 240 sidor
...pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bowe Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO THE MEN OF KENT. 1803. VANGUARD of Liberty, ye Men of Kent, Ye Children of a... | |
 | 1836 - 532 sidor
...Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up,...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 sidor
...Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall ana bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up,...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 sidor
...publicity, he continued diligently to discharge all the common duties of life. Well might Wordsworth sii\g : B0 Yet a while longer his harp was left in the hands of the guardian Muse. The strings were now occasionally,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 sidor
...Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their aneient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up,...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 sidor
...Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up,...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 - 1838 - 348 sidor
...Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up,...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... | |
 | 1839 - 510 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 sidor
...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou h ail's ia voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Cromwell died, Sept. 3, 1658. Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, was opened, and 30 boys admitted, llth... | |
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