...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...

...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...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...

...dower Of inward happiness. We ore selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like...; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself dia lay. XV. Great men have been among us : hands that penned And tongues that uttered wisdom, better...

...integrity of Belarius was vindicated, and he was received into favour by Cymbeline. 7* MILTON. " Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." — Wordsworth. Milton, who is rightly classed among the most exalted of British poets, was the son...

...— Oh raise us up ! Return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul teas like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe...

...men;— Oh raise us up! Return to us again; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power ! Thy soul ivas like a star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice,...thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay." Surely this is great writing. There is no affectation, no babyism here. The poet has girded his robe...

...suffering, dignity by lowliness ? " Obeying this sentiment, Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth: " Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst...godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on itself did lay." He laid on himself the lowliest duties. Johnson petulantly taunts Milton with " great...

...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us ys by emperor and clown : Perhaps the «elf-same song that found a didst lay. The World is Too Much with Га. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting...

...dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; ОЫ raise us up, return to us again ; And give us train along. He jars didst lay. The World is Too Much with Fs. The world is too much with us ; late and soon, Getting and...

...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...