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... Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 48by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 pages
...spirit. To a friend who wrote him a letter of sympathy on occasion of a severe criticism of his poems, he replied : " Trouble not yourself upon their present...— 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 - 506 pages
...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy -hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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... | |
| 1851 - 650 pages
...— among those who are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society.'' " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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
...— among those who are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society." " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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
...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...object, which is to make yon, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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 - 588 pages
...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...with what I trust is their destiny ? to console the afflieted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...idle and extravagant stories in verse.* His deliberate pur* Of his poems the author himself says: — "To console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight,...making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of eveiy age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more actively and... | |
| George Brimley - 1858 - 376 pages
...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to gee, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely... | |
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