 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...  The Harvard Classics - Стр. 6931910Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - Страниц: 480
...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,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none :... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - Страниц: 424
...contemplating him, has Wordsworth finely apostrophized his illustrious predecessor, Milton : — ' Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." The literary period of Dryden and those amidst whom he was preeminent was in no respect, that I can... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - Страниц: 306
...return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power, Thy soul was like a star, and dwell apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom better none : The... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - Страниц: 308
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give us manners,...voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free. Yet didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1858 - Страниц: 516
...yet how compact the whole great effect! Listen to the following noble apostrophe. " 1802. " Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Who that has read " meek Walton " will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? "WALTON'S... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - Страниц: 376
...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,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - Страниц: 564
...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,...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart GREAT MEN have been among us ; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom, bettor none : The... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - Страниц: 314
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give us manners,...voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free. Yet didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1859 - Страниц: 370
...peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. 3TV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. xv. GKEAT men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, — better none... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - Страниц: 372
...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,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." I will now read to you one or two passages in which Wordsworth shows the power of this life of contemplation.... | |
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