 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...  The Atlantic Magazine - Page 2281824Full view - About this book
 | Sir James Mackintosh - British - 1836 - 526 pages
...dangers of the great world, to which my feelings are attached. I applied to him his own verses : — Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — The Poets. " The Sonnets on Switzerland and on Milton are sublime. Some of the others are in a style of severe... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...produced The Romance of Nature, do we return our cordial thanks for what they have done and are doing. " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares." After this preface we must confine ourselves to the works immediately before us, and, as in duty bound,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...their later followers, the gratitude we owe to men who have given us " nobler loves and nobler cures. The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight :" for such is the inheritance they bequeath to us, in the simplest excreise of their high privilege.... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...like beams of light from Heaven, directing men towards the skies. " Blessing be with them, and eternnl praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares,...heirs Of Truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." So sings "Wordsworth — himself entitled to the rapturous homage, which be heaps upon hi.j noble predecessors... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 566 pages
...lived near our own day. In the language of Wordsworth : ' Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth, and pure delight, by heavenly lays.' And, Miss Mary, we agree in the homage that we render to him, who ' walked in glory and in joy, Following... | |
 | Johnstone - English essays - 1840 - 386 pages
...joyous thought ; And thus, from day to day, my little boat Rocks in its harbour, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them and eternal praise Who gave...heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days." Delightful... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...aspiration of this glorious nature that swells the breast of Wordsworth, when he fervently exclaims ; •' Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who...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 1" It is a mournful... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...joyous thought : And thus, from day to day, my little boat Rocks in its harbour, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days. SONNET COMPOSED... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...aspiration of this glorious nature that swells the breast of Wordsworth, when he fervently exclaims ; " Blessings be with them— and eternal praise, Who...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 1" It is a mournful... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1840 - 614 pages
...but the earthly differences of these men have, with their earthly career, had their termination : " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight in heavenly lays." WORDSWORTH. With regard to Jean Paul, the division was in this remarkable — that... | |
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