 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...  Macmillan's Magazine - Página 2911873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 páginas
...Immortality, and several of his Sonnets. He says of his own po try that his purpose in writing it was "to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happv happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 330 páginas
...you, my 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... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1888 - 280 páginas
...for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. " To console the afflicted ; to odd sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ;...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous," — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 páginas
...composition of his poems. In a letter to Lady Beaumont (May 21, 1807) he says, " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...is their destiny !— to console the afflicted, to odd sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every... | |
 | 1888 - 618 páginas
...' 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 victorious.' If Wordsworth was right — and it is difficult to say that he is... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1888 - 698 páginas
...and he holds himself as responsible for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier; to ter.ch the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 452 páginas
...you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself about 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 páginas
...often as nought. But of himself no~* view could be more sound. He is a teacher, or he is nothing. " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and sincerely virtuous "- — that was his vocation ; to show that the mutual adaptation of the external... | |
 | William Wordsworth, John Morley - 1889 - 1152 páginas
...is often as nought. But of himself no view could be more sound. He is a teacher, or he is nothing. " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the yung and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively... | |
 | 1890 - 880 páginas
...dated May, 1807, Wordsworth wrote, after publishing his complete poems : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that,...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... | |
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