 GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none : The later Sidney, Marvel, Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton friend. These moralists could act and comprehend : They knew how genuine...  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 1111908Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1842 - 330 pagina’s
...life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. xv. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And...that uttered wisdom, better none : The later Sidney. Morvel, Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton friend. These moralists could act and... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 pagina’s
...overcome their moral enervation, Wordsworth turned directly to the English republican tradition — "The later Sidney, Marvel, Harrington, / Young Vane, and others who called Milton friend" ("Great men have been among us," 1802). In another sonnet that same year, "It is not to be thought,"... | |
 | Margarita Stocker - 1922 - 162 pagina’s
...of Andrew Marvell by bringing him into the same category with the ' great men ' of a great age : 'I Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom—better none: The later Sidney, MARVEL, Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton... | |
 | Peter J. Kitson, Thomas N. Corns - 1991 - 144 pagina’s
...Sidney. Harrington" (LPR 290). Wordsworth in 1802 made a similar appeal, but adding the name of Marvel I: Great men have been among us; hands that penned And...Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton friend. (WPW3: 116)19 "The electric fluid of truth" 41 Neither Wordsworth nor Coleridge show any real understanding... | |
 | Don H. Bialostosky - 1992 - 336 pagina’s
...knowing how to recognize the national virtues the poet recognizes in the London of "Westminster Bridge": "They knew how genuine glory was put on; / Taught us how rightfully a nation shone / In splendor: what strength was, that would not bend / But in magnanimous meekness. " Here the capacity... | |
 | Kevin P. Van Anglen - 1993 - 280 pagina’s
..."single volume" or "code" on account of which England had avoided the anarchy of revolutionary France): Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom—better none: The later Sidney, Marvel, Harrington, 12. See Howe, The Umtarian Conscience,... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 1995 - 292 pagina’s
...he was most sympathetic, modelled his hopes for the Revolution.6" These figures, writes Wordsworth: Knew how genuine glory was put on; Taught us how rightfully a nation shone In splendor, (lines 6-8; my italics) Napoleon's coronation marks the final fading of Wordsworth's hopes... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 pagina’s
...naturally associated the poet with such "Heathens" as are celebrated in William Wordsworth's Sonnet XV: Great men have been among us; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom—better none; The later Sidney, Marvel, Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 284 pagina’s
...the same names in the sonnet he included in 'Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty': Great men have been among us; hands that penned And...friend. These moralists could act and comprehend. For both of them Milton was the great exemplar in religion, politics, and poetry. Inspired by him and... | |
 | Nicholas Roe - 1998 - 344 pagina’s
...oliver Cromwell's'.5I Here, Keats was echoing Wordsworth's sentiments in his republican sonnets of 18o2: Great Men have been among us; hands that penned And...tongues that uttered wisdom, better none: The later Sydney, Marvel, Harrington, Young Vane, and others who called Milton Friend. (1-4) — and, closer... | |
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