 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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. It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which to the open sea Of the world's... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - English literature - 1847 - 352 pages
...need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wreath of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English...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 : The... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 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...as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou trav 1 on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1848 - 384 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. GREAT men have been among ue ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none :... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - Classical languages - 1850 - 364 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...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WOUDSWOBTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is it that... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself didst lay. WE ARE SEVEN. A simple child, dear brother Jim, That lightly draws its breath, And feels... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are sinful men; Oh raise us up! return to us again; And give...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.' Let us now turn to another patriarch, and wander with his shade. Samuel Rogers was a poet. Not a great... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 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...apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the se Pure as the naked heavens — majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Hare forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness....apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the i Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way. In cheerful... | |
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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... 
