 Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end...  The Dublin Review - Page 1731840Full view - About this book
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 pages
...nature that swells the breast of Wordsworth, when he fervently exclaims; " Blessings be with them—and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler...earth have made us heirs, Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days!"... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...much of the air of Paradise. Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler hopes and nobler cares — The POETS, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight in endless lays ! It is they who teach us when " sensual pleasures cloy," To fill the languid pulse with... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 188 pages
...conceive it as retaining anything for its possessor. There is a sense, indeed, in which the poets 19 " on earth have made us heirs of truth and pure delight in heavenly lays ;" and it is because of the greatness of this very hoon — because their thoughts become our thoughts,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 778 pages
...and joyous thought ; And thus from day to day my little boat Rocks in its harbour, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days... | |
 | 1841 - 204 pages
...contemporaries to a beneficial interest in their works. There is a sense, indeed, in which the poets have made us ' heirs of truth and pure delight in heavenly lays;' and it is because of this very gift—because their thoughts become ours, and their phrases unconsciously... | |
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...have been such as to cool our ardour or admiration for those who still give us " Noble loves and noble cares, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of Truth and pure delight." In the preceding paragraph we classed the poetesses together, and said that if we had been so inclined,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...that the event in the last line will be far away, — " Blessings be with them and eternal praise ! The POETS who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays — O might my name be number'd among theirs ! Then gladly would I end my mortal days."... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...that the event in the last line will be far away,— " Blessings be with them and eternal praise ! The POETS who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays— O might my name be number'd among theirs! Then gladly would I end my mortal days."... | |
 | 1867 - 854 pages
...of Wordsworth — himself one of the ' guadian spirits ' to whom the grateful writer refers : — ' Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...earth have made us heirs Of truth, and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...and joyous thoughts ; And thus from day to day my little boat Rocks in its harbor, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days.... | |
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