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" 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 9
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The Standard Poetry Book, Selected from the Best Authors

Standard poetry book - 1866 - 300 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...again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power, s Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and ..., Volume 67; Volume 69

1866 - 780 pages
...fen of stagnant waters : 184 185 '"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these we adore." " We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us...again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power." These lines were written in 1802. If they are compared with Oowpcr's expostulations, wo shall have,...
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Dublin University Magazine

George Herbert - 1866 - 720 pages
...fen of stagnant waters : 184 185 " Rapine, avarice, expense, ThiĞ U idolatry, and these we adore." " We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give ua manneğ, virtue, freedom, power." These lines were written in 1802. If they are compared with Cowper's...
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Literature in Letters; Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ...

James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...like the Son of Man than that. Do you remember Wordsworth's beautiful lines to Milton? Thy soul was as a star,. and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was tike the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestie, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way,...
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Sabrinae corolla, in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contexuerunt tres ...

Severn river - English poetry - 1867 - 458 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...sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestie, free. So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Ok! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners,...voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens—majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness; and yet...
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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

William Rounseville Alger - Solitude - 1867 - 420 pages
...addresses him, and o5Scribes his holy seclusion and his noble services, is a household word,. Thy soul w,as like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thotj travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart, The lowliest duties on...
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Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 23

English fiction - 1878 - 684 pages
...poems? Shall we apply to their author the words that he used in respect of Milton, and say, ' Thy soul was like a. star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ;' or shall we point out the lessons which they teach respecting the poet and his compositions ? How...
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The Golden Sunset; Or, the Homeless Blind Girl

Annie Kane - Blind - 1867 - 252 pages
...hall and bower Have foifeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give us manners,...virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and d welt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heaven, majestic,...
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Great Indian Social Reformers and Philanthropists

A. S. Chetti - Social reformers - 1975 - 182 pages
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