 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pagina 447geredigeerd door - 1873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 460 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Brimley - 1882 - 354 pagina’s
...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...feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pagina’s
...his friend as easy-hearted as himself on the subject, he continues thus: "Trouble not yourself upon their present reception; of what moment is that compared...the young and the gracious of every age to see, to thmk, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; — this is their office,... | |
 | George Brimley - 1882 - 356 pagina’s
...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...their destiny ? — to console the afflicted ; to add sunihine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - 1882 - 200 pagina’s
...their present reception. Of what moment is that compared with what I trust \ is their destiny 1— to console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach tho young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 430 pagina’s
...reverence for God." And then, alluding to the indifference with which his poems were received, he adds, " Of what moment is that compared with what I trust...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 actively and sincerely... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pagina’s
...reverence for God." And then, alluding to the indifference with which his poems were received, he adds, " Of what moment is that compared with what I trust...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 actively and sincerely... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pagina’s
...degree, be efficacious in making men wiser and better. . . . To console the afflicted ; to add sunlight to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 pagina’s
...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 actively and sincerely virtuous. This is their office, which I U trust they will faithfully perform, long after... | |
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