 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 selfish...  Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics - 244 psl.autoriai: Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 318 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1859 - 748 psl.
...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 sinful men; Oh raise us up! return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 psl.
...Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; O, raise as up ! return to us again ; And give us mauners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voiee, whose sound was like the sea : Pore as the naked heavens, majestie, free ; So didst thou travel... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 psl.
...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...virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thau hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 psl.
...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...Of inward happiness. We are selfish men: Oh ; raise ns up, return to us again ! And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1853 - 406 psl.
...feelings, as they come and go in the current of every day's existence, we have nothing. " Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice,...free ; So didst thou travel on life's common way." We hear the roar of the sea ; the voice in English literature is as that of Niagara among waters. We... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 psl.
...address him in language spoken by him of another, but perhaps more applicable to himself — " Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart, Thou hadst a voice,...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 434 psl.
...England hath need of thee ; she is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sicord, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness." Here church, state, and the whole society of England, are represented as " a fen of stagnant waters."... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 psl.
..." his conversation was in heaven." Truly does Wordsworth say, in his " Sonnet to Milton," Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was as the seaPure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. Even when he was most popular, his ontemporaries... | |
 | 1854 - 760 psl.
...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...naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst thou travel on lile's common way In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay."... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 psl.
...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...apart : Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the se» : Pure as the naked heaven, majestic, free, So did' at thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
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