 | George Gilfillan - 1869 - 332 páginas
...angry, had it even been unto death. Nobly did a kindred spirit, Wordsworth, sing of him — " Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour, England hath...forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. \Ve are selfish men. Oh ! raise us up, return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...rooting in a straight line across a field easily suggesting that of a plough also. 213. MILTON. Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : ' England hath...bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower 1. This hour: 1802, when this sonnet was written. Of inward happiness. Wo are selfish men ; Oh ! raise... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 páginas
...famous tribute to Milton in English poetry is Wordsworth's resonant sonnet written in 1802: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 páginas
...the highest tribute paid the genius of Milton is Wordsworth's finest 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. Thy soul was like... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 páginas
...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... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - 1993 - 292 páginas
...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... | |
 | J. Edward Chamberlin - 1993 - 340 páginas
..."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... | |
 | David Gervais - 1993 - 304 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...our faithful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Milton Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath...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... | |
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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... 
