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" 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... "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 471
1873
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 169

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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 47

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1887 - 490 pages
...of sympathy on occasion of a severe criticism of his poems, he replied : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...— 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...
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Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-laureate, D. C. L.

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...
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The New Englander, Volume 9

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...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 9

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1851 - 684 pages
...or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society." " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared...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...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7

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...
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The North British review

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...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 7

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...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

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...
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William Wordsworth: A Biography

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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