...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 ;...become more actively and securely virtuous ; this ls their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long after we (that ia, all that is mortal...

...' 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...

...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...

...detraction with a calm conviction of its injustice. Carlyle noticed this trait in his " Reminiscences." we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves." Again he says, " Be assured that the decision of these persons [{.«., " the London wits and witlings"]...

...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,...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. I am well aware how far it would seem to many that I over-rate my own exertions, when I speak in this...

...authors may fairly be applied. ' To add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ; to lead the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and to become more actively and seemingly virtuous, — this is their office, which we trust...

...striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society," adding that the mission of poetry is " to • console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." I am, however, rather disposed to think that the age in which we live is one that has a very genuine...

...the task would be superfluous- as well as ungrateful. It was his aim, he tells us, " to-eonsolethe afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, imd therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; " and, high as was the aim, he did much...

...'The Bard', of 'Truth severe by fairy fiction dressed.' Wordsworth saw it as the destiny of his poetry 'to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight...every age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore become more actively and securely virtuous' (Selincourt 1937, p. 126). DH Lawrence can speak for this...

...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 &• the gracious of every age, to see to think & feel, and there fore to become more actively & securely...