 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1852 - 364 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men: Oh ; raise ns up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue,...sea: Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst'thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...The thing became a trumpet, whence he blew Soul-animating strains — alas, too few! MILTON. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. First roused thee. 0 true yoke-fellow of time, With unabating effort, see, the palm Is won,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and Dower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. — Wordsworth. LESSON XXIX.— THURSDAY. ENGLISH HISTORY — PLANTAGENET LINE. A short, sad reign,... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - English poetry - 1853 - 448 pages
...address him in language spoken by him of another, but perhaps more applicable to himself— " Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart, Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." THE END. LONDON: Printed by Schukeand Co., 13, Poland Street. THIS BOOK IS DUE ON THE LAST DATE STAMPED... | |
 | 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...naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on lile's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay."... | |
 | Theology - 1854 - 532 pages
...champion of light and freedom, and virtue and faith, — " Milton! them 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." We close our present task by remarking that men like Milton belong to us all, God's bountiful gifts.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...inward happiness. We are selfish men : Ob : raise us up, return to us again ; • Set Note. t See Note. And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power Thy soul...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better none :... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1854 - 496 pages
...be living at this hour. And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Eeturn to us again, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." We close our present task by remarking that men like Milton belong to us all, God's bountiful gifts.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 364 pages
...again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : t Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea :...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XT. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, — better none... | |
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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... 
