| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1841 - 778 Seiten
...peaceably. 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 my mortal days !' — p. 132.... | |
| Ann Richter - 1841 - 204 Seiten
...when time is over, THE POETS. " Blessings be with them, — and eternal praise, — The poets, \vho on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays." MILTON. " Beyond this visible diurnal sphere," For ever soaring did thy muse ascend ; By Siloa's brook,... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 384 Seiten
...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." Wilson, on the breaking... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 380 Seiten
...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." This is an... | |
| 1842 - 416 Seiten
...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,... | |
| 1867 - 854 Seiten
...: — ' 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, How gladly would I end my mortal days ! ' The aspiration... | |
| William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 Seiten
...gratitude. " Blessings bo 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 !" But, if the composition of history be the work of an artist rather than of a jn,er.e. -chronicler... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 Seiten
...lodging peaceably. 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 number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days. LETTER IV. To... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 Seiten
...lodging peaceably. 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 number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days. LETTER IV . To... | |
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