 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 - Pagina 9geredigeerd door - 1838Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...aparti Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the Bern; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free; Bo didst thou travel on life's common way, , In cheerful godliness: and yet thy heart Tlie lowliest duties on herself did lay. WORDS WORTH. FAR above all the poets of his own age, and.... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pagina’s
...frivolity ; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : "MUton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...sea — Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." — Wordtworlh. His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in youth and early manhood had given... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 306 pagina’s
...and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English 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 a star, and dwell apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pagina’s
...altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancicnt English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us mauners, virtne, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pagina’s
...altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...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 Wordsworth - 1858 - 550 pagina’s
...altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish...apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sen ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1858 - 794 pagina’s
...brings. To adopt the language of a kindred poet : ' His soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; He had a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So did he travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet his heart The lowliest duties on... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1859 - 322 pagina’s
...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men. 0 raise us up; return to us again, And give iia manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...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 thy... | |
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