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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... "
Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell Longfellow - Page xxxvi
by Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 360 pages
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The poetical works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 pages
...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, majestic, free, So didst...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart XV. GREAT men have been among us ; hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom — better none...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 7

1841 - 908 pages
...Milton, Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadst a voice whose soun'l was like the sea; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. So didst...common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart 1841.] Pencillings on Poetry. And he, who wrote the above six lines, author of the Excursion, is another...
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London, Volumes 1-2

Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...behind into Lincoln's Inn Fields. He here continued to work in the education of a few scholars:— " So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." V'-u [Barbican. Designed from old Maps and Elevations, temp. James and Charles I.] But within two years...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 610 pages
...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...; Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful...
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Boston Miscellany, Volume 2

1842 - 414 pages
...heroic wreath of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We ore selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again...: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...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...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul teas like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...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...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul ivas like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice, whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation : the Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...integrity of Belarius was vindicated, and he was received into favour by Cymbeline. 7* MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness...
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The Golden Vase: A Gift for the Young

Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...suffering, dignity by lowliness ? " Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth: " Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." He laid on himself the lowliest duties. Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with " great...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower ry generations tread thee down ; The voice I hear...clown : Perhaps the «elf-same song that found a ; Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful...
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