 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...innocence, And pure religion hreathing household laws. XIv. LONDON, 180z. MILTON ! thou should'sthe living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh 1 raise... | |
 | Geo. F. Holmes, George Frederick Holmes - English language - 1871 - 264 pages
...Milton furnishes a fina example oI this difficult form of versification. Milton 1 thou shouldst he living at this hour : England hath need of thee ;...sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and hower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; O, raise... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 pages
...unturned getting into hot water burying the hatchet . . . In poetry, metaphors proliferate: Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I know him well; he is the brooch indeed And gem of all the nation. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE... | |
 | Francis Burton Harrison - 1910 - 424 pages
...great part of liberatress of the world, which ho predicted she was to play. He fondly complained that altar, sword and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth...their ancient English dower , Of inward happiness. If cach single word of this complaint be well meditated, it opens all the characteristic glories of... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...and to duty as a guiding principle. Earlier lines in the same sonnet make Wordsworth's values clear: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men (3-6) This vision transforms the turmoil of a seventeenth-century revolution into a glorified picture... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...London, 1802 40 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: (1. 1-2) 41 ' P ЬrH T ! xL S ث <} _ ,B 8 hEܴ5: &l M *z dwelt apart. (1. 8—9) 42 So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - History - 1993 - 292 pages
...from Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" but from Wordsworth's sonnet, "London, 1802": Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need...again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. It was the cry of the Romantie conservative. 74 It is crucial to observe that whatever the standing... | |
 | David Gervais - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 304 pages
...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 need...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. Even if such poems are more than the 'declamatory claptrap'1 which Leavis dismissed them as being,... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...faithful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Milton Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power! Thy soul was like a... | |
 | Susana Onega, Susana Onega Jaén - Historical fiction - 1995 - 216 pages
...revolutionary epic poet: 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 If I have commented on these novels briefly it is with a view to underlining the shift of perspective... | |
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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... 
