 LONDON, 1802. 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....  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2201808Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...the stillness, let us exclaim— ' Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour. • * * Oh raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart., Thou hadst a voice whose sound Was like the sea ; Pure as the... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower 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, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 364 pages
...best and a sufficient advertisement of each reprint : " Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the Sea : Pure as the... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...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, virtue, freedom, power. — Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...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, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the... | |
 | John Bolton Rogerson - 1854 - 320 pages
...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, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou had'st a voice whose sound was like the se» : Pure as... | |
 | 1854 - 760 pages
...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, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...bower. Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happines?. We are selfish men: Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners virtue, freedom, power. Thy sotil was like a star, und dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea; Pure as the... | |
 | 1854 - 532 pages
...champion of light and freedom, and virtue and faith, — " Milton! them shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the... | |
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