 | Frederick William Robertson - 1876 - 368 Seiten
...rancour, never sought, Comes to me not, malignant truth nor lie. Hence have I genial seasons, hence have I Smooth passions, smooth discourse, and joyous thought...heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." I shall now read you a passage from a letter written by Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, in which he answers... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 Seiten
...in tones of harmony, grandeur, and pathos, and upon whom Wordsworth bestowed his benediction : — " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! " The writings of the earlier poets being couched in language not easily understood except by students... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1876 - 414 Seiten
...beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." Wordsworth's lines recur to us in this connection — " Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heaveuly lays." The habitual reading and study of poetry, especially of the loftier types, is eminently... | |
 | 1877 - 362 Seiten
...fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not POETKY, but prose run mad. — POPE, Ta Arbuthnot. Poets. — Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! WORDSWORTH, The Poets. — God's prophets of the beautiful, these POETS were. EB BROWNING, A Vision.... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1877 - 420 Seiten
...beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." Wordsworth's lines recur to us in this connection — '' Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who...heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." The habitual reading and study of poetry, especially of the loftier types, is eminently useful as a... | |
 | Frederic Beecher Perkins - 1877 - 364 Seiten
...especially at first, such works as can be read with sustained and quickened attention. — Dr. Fetter. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! (See further of it.) — Wordsworth : Personal Talk, Л. 4. The novel, in its best form, I regard... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 1002 Seiten
...securely i tuous." Honor now came to him from sources which attested how potent his indue bad become. Blessings be with them — and eternal praise. Who...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays I Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs ; Then gladly would I end my mortal days. Thus wrote... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1904 - 336 Seiten
...friend Principal Shairp. Without a moment's hesitation Shairp replied, ' Let it be the poet's own lines, Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays I' And these lines are inscribed on the pedestal. at Megginch in the autumn of 1877. In the forty-fifth... | |
 | Kate Thecla Conley - 1905 - 226 Seiten
...inspiration: an intense and religious conviction of the lofty character and sublime ends of the poet." " Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! " — WORDSWORTH. 12. Mercure: Mercury, or Hermes as he was called by the Greeks, was the messenger... | |
 | Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 Seiten
...B. SHEL"LEY. THOMAS GRAY. JOHN KEATS. WILLIAM COWPER. THOMAS HOOD. SAMUEL COLERIDGE. JEAN INGELOW. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise Who gave...heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays. OTHER FAMOUS BRITISH POETS. NOTE.—We have but short space for biography and selections from the following... | |
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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... 
