 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 pages
..."London, 1802," with its catalogs of praise and its relatively clear, uncomplicated language. Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - 1993 - 292 pages
...only from Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" but from Wordsworth's sonnet, "London, 1802": Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. It was the cry of... | |
 | David Gervais - 1993 - 304 pages
...herself like a strong man after sleep'. But the continuity he hoped to cement was already broken: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Even if such poems are more than the ' declamatory claptrap '* which Leavis dismissed them as being,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...to them, and said that by the soul Only, the Nations shall be great and free. London, 1802 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
 | Masson - 1995 - 228 pages
...our faithful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Milton Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...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 naked heavens,... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 pages
...morality. Listen to Wordsworth calling up, from a time before Hume, the hero England lost: Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour; England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters . . . "London, 1802" In his "Ode to Duty" and his "Character of the Happy Warrior," there is the same... | |
 | G Venkataraman - 1995 - 228 pages
...Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee .. ... 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: ... Box 9.2 The following... | |
 | Kirk A. Denton - 1996 - 576 pages
...methods for ma10. In Wen's 1928 essay on Du Fu, he quotes part of a sonnet by Wordsworth: "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters . . . "; see Selected Poems and Prefaces by William Wordsworth, ed. Jack Stillinger (Boston: Houghton... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 302 pages
...and 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 naked heavens,... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 1999 - 306 pages
...friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and Man's unconquerable mind. 217. London, 1802 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
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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... 
