...about himself. But the task would be superfluous as well as ungrateful. It was his aim, he tells us, " to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; " and, high as was the aim, he did much towards...

...present reception [his poems] ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny? — to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...I trust they will faithfully perform long after we are mouldered in our graves. 1 am well aware how far it would seem to many I overrate my own exertions...

...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...more actively and securely virtuous,' — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont, May, 1807.) He has given the...

...rightly, he says that he meant his works " to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,by making the happy happier, to teach the young and the...become more actively and securely virtuous." This prom1se he has kept. When he touches the antique, it is to draw from classic myth or history a lesson...

...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 j to ter.ch the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become...

...reception ; of • ls.it moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? To console 'V- afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier; to ''"it'll the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, nnd therefore to become...

...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,...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves." Such words as these come with dignity from the mouth of a man like Wordsworth when he has been, as...

...upon 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,...is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perfprm, long after we (that is, all that is mortal of us,) are mouldered in our graves." Such words...

...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 tet.cn the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become...

...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,...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. Still, the critic did something; he supplied witlings with epigrammatic bon-bons, caused the poems...