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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... "
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of ... - Page 325
edited by - 1844 - 4 pages
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Sabrinae corolla in hortulis regiae scholae Salopiensis contextuerunt tres ...

Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDSWORTH. The absent Rose. Why is it that on Clara's face The lily only has a place ? Is...
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Poems, in Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners,...free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In chearful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 140 Great Men have been...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return, to us again ; And give us manners,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay, XV. Gu EAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered wisdom,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay. 1803. XV. GIIEAT Men have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that uttered...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 76

1854 - 758 pages
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men : Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give ui manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." " Miltone, vellem nunc quoque viveres : Te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia : Quae, more coeoosie...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1820 - 362 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. XV. GREAT Men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1836 - 698 pages
...inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us mii1iners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did l.-iv.' vol. ii. p. 329. His esteem for the great men of English history rises to a sublime...
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1899 - 308 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. France lacks GREAT men have been among us; hands that penned Great Men And tongues that uttered...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...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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