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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... "
Poems by William Wordsworth - Page xxv
by William Wordsworth - 1907 - 144 pages
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: With a Memoir, Volume 7

William Wordsworth - 1865 - 434 pages
...present reception; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? — to con Bole the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making...and securely virtuous; this is their office, which 1 trust they will faithfully perform, long after we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered...
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Poems of the Inner Life: Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors

R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 pages
...of Religious, or Christian Poetry—Poetry which, as Wordsworth desired for his own verse, may serve "to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous."—It is Religious Poetry, in no narrow, technical sense of the word ; but amidst all the...
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The Fortnightly Review, Volume 4; Volume 6

1866 - 908 pages
...this with the unfaltering conviction that his own works would not perish, but that they would live " to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier; to teach the yoiing and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively...
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Poems, selected and ed. by R.A. Willmott. Illustr

William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1866 - 408 pages
...his Poems is the truest, and the most worthy ; — he gives it in a letter to Lady Beaumont : — " To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to lead the young and the gracious of every "ago to see, to think, to feel, and to become more actively...
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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life

William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...reception of these poems," he wrote to Lady Beaumont, "compared with what I trust is their destiny ? To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to be more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 17

1868 - 556 pages
...noble language of Wordsworth, to make men better and wiser ; to console the atllicted; to add sunlight to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous. The first book consists of three...
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Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics

Frederick William Robertson - 1869 - 372 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,...faithfully perform, long after we (that is, all that ia mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves." And then, after some striking criticisms and analyses...
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Among My Books

James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 342 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...office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long-after we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves To conclude, my ears...
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Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson

Frederick William Robertson - 1870 - 860 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,...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, und feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is their office, which...
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Studies in Poetry and Philosophy

J. Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 364 pages
...their present reception ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny 1 — 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 feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely...
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