 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...  A New Library of Poetry and Song - Seite 791von William Cullen Bryant - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...good example of the chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadft a voice whose sound was like the sea... | |
 | 1845 - 596 Seiten
...and huge Fantastic pomps of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous enwrapped. SONNET. ON MILTON. " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this...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 :... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, l802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath...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 в Pure... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altars, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...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:... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...fearful innocence, XIV. S LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England haul need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar,...dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 444 Seiten
..." Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a few* fe. )u Of stagnant waters : altar, sword and pen, Fireside,...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.... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altars, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall...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:... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1847 - 382 Seiten
...the neck of the grim old tyrant even with tears and kisses. What a disgraceful spectacle ! " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...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.... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 Seiten
...true sway doth mount ; this is the stalk True power doth grow on ; and her rights are these. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 Seiten
...clergy. That this is the case may be seen from the sonnet to the memory of Milton, in!802 : — " Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour ! England hath...their ancient English dower Of inward happiness." Here, church, state, and the whole society of England are represented as " a fen of stagnant waters."... | |
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