 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous stream in bogs and sands Should perish and to evil and to good be lost for...free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spoke ; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.- — In everything we are sprung Of earth's first... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 1982 - 220 pages
...his words," they said. That has been the history of great culture ever since. When Wordsworth said: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold That Milton held. he meant what he said and he was telling the truth. But school texts of Shakespeare... | |
 | Doris Eveline Faulkner Jones - 1982 - 244 pages
...deep-rooted connection between Shakespeare and the Soul-life of his countrymen when he wrote, in 1807 : "We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spoke." .... He was expressing, not a rhetorical sentiment, but a simple fact — overwhelming in its... | |
 | Ruth Katz - 1989 - 818 pages
...literature is completely translatable. All of us share to some extent in the privilege of the poets who "... speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. " For this continuity is not confined to letters in its written and printed form. The grandam telling... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...before the Restoration by the men of property. 2n Milton is coupled with the trappings of chivalry: In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights...spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. (no. 16) As the repetition "hold"/"held" insinuates the identity of 1640 and 1803, only familiarity... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...NoP; OAEL-2; OBEY; OBTV; PoEL-4; PoLF; PPP; SeCePo; Son; TEP; TrGrPo It Is Not to Be Thought Of 28 ffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To fo (1. 11-13) EnRP: FaPoR; FiP; GN; NOBE; OBEY Great Men Have Been among Vs 21 Great men have been among... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 pages
...to a mood Which spurns the check of salutary bands, That this most famous Stream in bogs and sands Should perish; and to evil and to good Be lost for...and morals hold Which Milton held. - In everything we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have titles manifold. ' When I have borne in memory what has... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pages
...English, an inheritance imagined as descending through a proper Burkeian family-line from the land itself: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That...the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. - In every thing we are sprung Of Earth's first blood, have tides manifold. (WPW,vol.ni,p. 117) Similarly... | |
 | John Rieder - 1997 - 284 pages
...of a "just and legitimate representation," the sonnet's sestet articulates a familiar contradiction: In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights...Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.—In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold. In the injunction... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 pages
...open sea Of the world's praise from dark antiquity Hath flowed " with pomp of waters unwithstood," Should perish, and to evil and to good Be lost for ever.' The life of the English idea depends upon the maintenance in separate identity and power of the Imperial... | |
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In our halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. 
