 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...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 297by John Wilson - 1842Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 pages
...household laws. ' XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTO> ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England bath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar,...selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; • Se« Note. t See Note. And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star,... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...Nature, but we refrain, asking our readers to go with us through one magnificent sonnet. ' Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are sinful men; Oh raise us up! return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pages
...shattered walls, and replace the rotten frame-work which he had demolished. Restitution, .* " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Hare forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. [ XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON! Ihou ehould'st wide embrace Ol' institutions, and the forms of things ; As they exist, nnd bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh... | |
 | John Milton - Authors, English - 1851 - 428 pages
...thine, Milton, whose genins had angelie wings, And fed on mauna. WORDSWORTH.^ MtLToN ! thou shonldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee...stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroie wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their aneient English dower Of inward happiness. We... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1851 - 434 pages
...That this is the case may be seen from the sonnet to the memory of Milton, in 1802 : — " Miltoii. thou shouldst be living at this hour! England hath...of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sioord, and pen, fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower. Have forfeited their ancient English... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...would break the stillness, let us exclaim— ' Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour. • * * Oh raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart., Thou hadst a voice whose sound Was like the sea ; Pure as the naked... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...good example of the chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1803. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...of Proteus rising from the sea ; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. London, 1802. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...Of inward happiness. We are selfish men: Oh ; raise ns up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star,... | |
 | 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, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the Sea : Pure as the naked... | |
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