 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...  Schelling Anniversary Papers - Page 25by Schelling anniversary papers - 1923 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 pages
...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 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,...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long after we (that is, all that... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1888 - 280 pages
...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 ;...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous," — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont, May 1807.) He has... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 pages
...what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny !— to console the afflicted, to odd sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ;...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this ls their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long after we (that ia, all that... | |
 | 1888 - 618 pages
...' 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 pages
...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 pages
...about 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,...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we (that is, all that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...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 - 1889 - 1152 pages
...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... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1890 - 348 pages
...stimulates the stored-up moral forces of mankind. If I remember rightly, he says that he meant his works " to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." This promise he has kept. When he touches the antique, it is to draw from classic myth or history a... | |
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