 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...commander's claim, With honour, honour, honour, honour to him, Eternal honour to his name. TENNYSON. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, Oh ! raise... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...in Nature or in book, Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. \'xrv. LONDON 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she... | |
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...Sonnet occasionally, but not often, gives a tnunpetsound. Here is one example : — " Milton I Hi on should'st be living at this hour : England hath need...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh I raise... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - Criticism - 1862 - 366 pages
...of tbe chaste severity of Wordsworth's loftier style : SONNET. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldat be living at this hour England hath need of thee ;...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men , Oh ! raise... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...leaders at the present day, Wordsworth might well write, — and we may echo his words, — " MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour; England hath...is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, * Andrew Marvell, in WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR'S Imaginary Conversations. MEMOIR. 11 Fireside, the heroic... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...pure religion breathing household laws. W. Wordsworth CCXIII THE SAME MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we .adore. Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely...our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathes household laws." FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTOLDY. THERE are few who have attained great eminence,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. 314. MILTON. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour ; England hath...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 pages
...never for thee prayed, still last to come where thou art wanted most ! F< 1 26 LONDON MDCCCIl MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...sword, and pen, fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, have forfeited their ancient English dower of inward happiness. We are selfish men: O! raise... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 pages
...in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LXXXVI LONDON, 1802 MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she... | |
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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... 
