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" Milton! thou shouldst 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... "
English Prose Writings of John Milton - Page 10
by John Milton - 1889 - 446 pages
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contextuerunt tres ...

Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...ancient 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...common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face...
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Poems, in Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...ancient 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...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 140 Great Men have been...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...ancient 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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay, XV. Gu EAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...ancient 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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 1803. XV. GIIEAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd...
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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...rich jewel hanging in an Ethiop's ear. So, too, when Wordsworth apostrophizes Milton, — " Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea " ; — here we have two similes. But when he says, — " Unruffled doth the blue lake lie, The mountains...
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Philosophical Essays: To which are Subjoined, Copious Notes, Critical and ...

James Ogilvie - Philosophy - 1816 - 436 pages
...up, O come to us again! And gire us, knowledge, freedom, virtue, power' Thy soul was like a star mid dwelt apart! Thou had'st a voice, whose sound was like the sea' So did'st thou travel o'er life's eommon road In cheerful godliness: and yet thy heart, The lowliest...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76

England - 1854 - 758 pages
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give ui manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...ancient 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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...ancient 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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us mii1iners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star,...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did l.-iv.' vol. ii. p. 329. His esteem for the great men of English...
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