 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altars, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. TOUSSAIHT, the most unhappy man of men ! Whether the whistling rustic tend his... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none :... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...DISPUTE HIS STRENGTH AND GRANDECR? SIR EQERTOJf BRTDOES. 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. WORD8WORTB. IN TWO VOLUMES. I. PHILADELPHIA: HERMAN HOOKER, PUBLISHER, No. 16 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1846 - 332 pages
...forlorn ; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. LOSDOV, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. COMPOSED UTOS WESTMINSTER BR1DGI. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 444 pages
..." Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a few* fe. )u Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." The constitution of Geneva is such, that by its provisions there is no liberty of instruction or congregation,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altars, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart... | |
 | Sarah Margaret Ossoli (march.) - 1846 - 182 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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 380 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy aoul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...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... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1846 - 382 pages
...us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart ; Thou ] 1 1 1 1 1 .1 a voice whose sound was like the Sea : Pure as the...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...true sway doth mount ; this is the stalk True power doth grow on ; and her rights are these. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which to the open sea Of the world'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... 
