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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... "
Specimens of English Sonnets - Page 201
1833 - 224 pages
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : " Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...sea — Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."* His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in youth and early manhood had given the freshness...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...frivolity; and Milton had passed into that seclusion of which it has been grandly said : "Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the seaPure as the naked heavens, majestic, free."* His varied career drew to a solemn ending. He who in...
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Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. Bowman

Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...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...naked heavens, majestic, free ; So didst thou travel in life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...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...; Oh raise us up, return to us again ; And give us freedom, manners, virtue, power ; Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart, Thou hadst a voice whose...
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Poets. French revolutionists. Novelists

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1856 - 344 pages
...thee. She is a fen Of stagnant waters. We are selfish men. Thy soul was like a star; and dwelt apart; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet tby heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." BURNS.* THIS is, if not by any means the ablest,...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 2

Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...thou should 'st be living at this hour : Tho world hath need of thee. • » • • "We are selBsh men : Oh ' raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy MIH| was like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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....
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Introduction to English literature, from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...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...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...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...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 1

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 306 pages
...she is a fen Of stagnant waters; altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wreath of hall 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...
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