 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 - Stran 2011833 - 224 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1840 - 376 strani
...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...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... | |
 | 1841 - 908 strani
...language too, is sublime and strong — worthy1 of the mind of tho Blind Minstrel. O 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 thou travel on life's... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1841 - 836 strani
...lonely bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of dashing Tobygloaks. We are sneaks, not men. Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us will to take a purse and power ! Thy soul from vulgar filchers dwelt apart : * The generic name for... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 strani
...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...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 strani
...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...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... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 strani
...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...power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou hadft a voice whose sound was like the sea , Pure as the naked heavens — majestic, free, So didst... | |
 | 1926 - 750 strani
...literary question cannot be understood. What Wordsworth wrote of another was true of himself: — Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice...the sea. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. The vision and faculty divine of his earlier genius, differing almost inexplicably from anything there... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 strani
...is a fen Of stagnant waters ; altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, ; He marks their path with notes divine, While fountains spring with oil and wine. ; ОЫ raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was... | |
 | 1845 - 596 strani
...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...majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, To cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." SONNET. THE COVENANTERS.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 strani
...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...apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the в Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful... | |
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