| 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 - 492 pages
...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... | |
| Criticism - 1851 - 650 pages
...are 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...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... | |
| 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 - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...yon, 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...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
...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 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 - 588 pages
...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...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... | |
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