...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...

...dated May, 1807, Wordsworth wrote, after publishing his complete poems : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that,...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous : this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we...

...memorable criticism of his poems written to Lady Beaumont in 1807. "Trouble not yourself," he says, "about their present reception; of what moment is that compared...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after...

...never ceased to trust. "Trouble not yourself about their present reception," he writes to a friend. " Of what moment is that compared with what I trust...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become actively and securely virtuous ; this is the office which I trust...

...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,...and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." This promise he has kept. When he touches the antique, it is to draw from classic...

...administers and breathes the spirit of religion. To Lady Beaumont he wrote what was the office of his poems : "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." And is not this the task of the religious teacher in the...

...recollected in tranquility," the "still, sad music of humanity." Its purpose was "to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more securely and actively virtuous." And it was derived, not as the Classicists held, from books, but directly...

...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...and feel, and 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...

...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...