MILTON ! thou 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 bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are... The Book of Gems: Wordsworth to Bayly - Page 9edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
..." his conversation was in heaven." Truly does Wordsworth say, in his " Sonnet to Milton," Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was as the seaPure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. Even when he was most popular, his ontemporaries... | |
 | England - 1854 - 760 pages
...altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...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."... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...apart : Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the se» : Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free, So did' at thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | 1872 - 868 pages
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 | 1872 - 874 pages
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 | Scotland - 1854 - 768 pages
...the heroic wealth of hull and bower. Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happines?. We are selfish men: Oh ! raise us up, return to us...again, And give us manners virtue, freedom, power. Thy sotil was like a star, und dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Wo are selfish men ; 0, raise us up ! return to us again ; And give us manners,...apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the se» : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free; So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...frivolity; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : "Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...sea — Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."* His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in youth and early manhood had given the freshness... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : " Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...sea — Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."* His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in youth and early manhood had given the freshness... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...frivolity; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : "Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the seaPure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."* His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in... | |
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