 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...  Choice Specimens of English Literature - Pagina 373geredigeerd door - 1870 - 477 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Rushworth M. Kidder - 2009 - 242 pagina’s
..."virtue" embodied by John Milton, whose epic poem Paradise Lost had appeared 135 years earlier. Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour England hath...English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; . . . (Sonnet VIII, "London, 1802") The impulse to condemn the ethical present — "We are selfish... | |
 | Patricia Waugh - 2006 - 632 pagina’s
...and Interpretations'), are representations, not performances. So when Wordsworth writes of England: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and...their ancient English dower Of inward happiness, we should, on Beardsley's view, think of Wordsworth as 'representing an illocutionary action of castigating... | |
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