 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 512 pages
...thought it very ungrateful that the audience did not rise and clap the performance. CHAPTER XXXII. " Blessings be with them and eternal praise, Who gave...cares;. The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of.truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.'"WORD RJ3SWORTH. EMILY'S time was now passing most pleasantly... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - Children's stories, Scottish - 1832 - 362 pages
...ladies were, however, unanimous for Cowper, and the Curate gave his suffrage with theirs, repeating, " 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." THE CURATE'S... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - Children's literature - 1832 - 354 pages
...unanimous for Cowper, and the Curate gave his suffrage with theirs, repeating, " Blessings be wiih 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." THE CURATE'S... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...is the Beautifier. And is not all Beauty Bliss ? Then, " Blessings be with tliem and eternal praise, The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!" . . ,„. .,„ They etherealize creation. Their glory is their reproach. Truth, shewn by them, is... | |
 | Association réformiste - 1835 - 478 pages
...BALLADS, &C. VARIOUS INTRODUCTIONS TO THE READING OF POETRY AND ESSAYS, &C. ON THE POETS AND POETRY. " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares The Poets." Wordsworth, quoted by Sir Jamts Mackintosh. " A perfect collection of all the English Poetry published... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1835 - 552 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... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - English literature - 1835 - 470 pages
...blend them together in the charm of a kindred being. " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth, and pure delight, by heavenly lays." The clouds, that too long obscured the personal character of Bums — for his genius has always burned... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...gave his suffrage with theirs, repeating, " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave ua nobler loves and nobler cares — The poets — who, on earth have made u* heirs Of truth, and pure delight, by heavenly lays." PRESTON MILLS* BIT THE AUTHOR OF "CORN-LAW... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...acknowledge with the greatest of their later followers, the gratitude we owe to men who have given us " nobler loves and nobler cares, The Poets, who...earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight :" for such is the inheritance they bequeath to us, in the simplest exercise of their high privilege.... | |
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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... 
