 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, 0 ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Work*, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as a second distinguishing... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...and bowe 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,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO THE MEN OF KENT. 1803. VANGUARD of Liberty, ye Men of Kent, Ye Children... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 532 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,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. Who that has read " meek Walton" will not answer to the perfect truth of the following ? Walton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; O, raise us up ! return to us again; And give us manners,...godliness: and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. I. HE, most sublime of bards, whose lay divine Sung of the Fall of Man, was in his style Naked... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...ana 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,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." Vol. ip 140. We make room for this other; though the four first lines arc bad, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...publicity, he continued diligently to discharge all the common duties of life. Well might Wordsworth sii\g : B0 did lay. Yet a while longer his harp was left in the hands of the guardian Muse. The strings were now... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 336 pages
...and hower, 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,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED UPON WESTM1NSTEK BR1DGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1838 - 348 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,...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lav. COMPOSED OPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. EARTH has not any thing to show more fair : Dull would he... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1839 - 510 pages
...hall and bower Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men, O ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners,...godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties ou herself did lay." Works, p. 213. But we pass on to notice Wordsworth's power of description, as... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart ; Thou h ail's ia voice whose sound was like the sea ; Pure as the naked...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Cromwell died, Sept. 3, 1658. Heriot's Hospital, in Edinburgh, was opened, and 30 boys admitted,... | |
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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... 
