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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... "
The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century - Page 58
by Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 504 pages
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A sketch of the the life of the rev. John Brown, sometime minister ... in ...

Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...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...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart XV. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none...
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Gems of the Modern Poets: With Biographical Notices

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1842 - 440 pages
...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...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...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England has need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...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...
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Boston Miscellany, Volume 2

Fashion - 1842 - 414 pages
...heroic wreath of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We ore selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself dia lay. XV. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...integrity of Belarius was vindicated, and he was received into favour by Cymbeline. 7* MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted of British poets, was the son...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...— Oh raise us up ! Return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul teas like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...men;— Oh raise us up! Return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul ivas like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, ve ears in Tain — To thy high requiem become a sod....clown : Perhaps the «elf-same song that found a didst lay. The World is Too Much with Га. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; ОЫ of pence attend his eong, And draw their milky train along. He jars didst lay. The World is Too Much with Fs. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting and...
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