 I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and% securely virtuous...  The Living Age - Page 401913Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 614 pages
...in their lives. His work has faithfully fulfilled the office which he hoped it would perform — ' to ' console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...making ' the happy happier; to teach the young and gracious of ' every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to ' become more actively and... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...sympathy on occasion of a severe criticism of his poems, he replied : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...— to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to the daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...dear friend, as easy -hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we... | |
 | 1851 - 650 pages
...striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society.'' " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to tench the young and the gracious of every ago to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 pages
...striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society." " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...is their destiny ? to console the afflicted, to add snnshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and% securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...true poet does. A noble work, if any is, and it takes a noble unworldly nature rightly to fulfil it. " To console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...by making the happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more active and securely... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...with what I trust is their destiny ? — to console the'afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...dear friend, as easy hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which... | |
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