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... Poems by William Wordsworth - Page xxvby William Wordsworth - 1907 - 144 pagesFull 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... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pages
...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,...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. I am well aware how far it would seem to many I overrate my own exertions, when I speak in this way,... | |
| Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...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 tench the young and the gracious of every ago to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...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,...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. I am well aware how far it would seem to many I overrate my own exertions, when I speak in this way,... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...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...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. I am well aware how far it would seem to many I overrate my own exertions, when I speak in this way,... | |
| 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... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...reception ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? to console the afflieted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier...and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more acWORDSWORTH A GARDENER. 391 tively and securely virtuous ; this... | |
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