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... Blackwood's Magazine - Página 5751854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 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
...Wordsworth's sonnet, "London, 1802": Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee; she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. It was the cry of the Romantie conservative. 74 It is crucial to... | |
| David Gervais - 1993 - 304 páginas
...cement was already broken: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and...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,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...great and free. London, 1802 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose... | |
| Masson - 1995 - 228 páginas
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Milton Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and...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 - 1995 - 216 páginas
...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... | |
| G Venkataraman - 1995 - 228 páginas
...the great John Milton: 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. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; Thou hadst a voice whose... | |
| Marion Montgomery - 1998 - 242 páginas
...but Wordsworth, had already declared England "a fen / Of stagnant waters," the corruption general: "altar, sword, and pen, / Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower" are decayed through a common selfishness, through which has been "forfeited" the common "English dower... | |
| Paula R. Feldman, Daniel Robinson - 2002 - 302 páginas
...(1807) 217. London, 1802 Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword and...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose... | |
| William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 páginas
...unconquerable mind. London, 1802 Milton!1 thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and...men; Oh! raise us up, return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose... | |
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