 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...and joyous thoughts ; And thus from day to day my little boat Rocks in its harbor, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...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 THE EDITOR OF THE Five... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...and joyous thoughts ; And thus from day to day my little boat Rocks in its harbor, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...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 THE EDITOR OF THE ATHEN.ETTM... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
...The language of Wordsworth, is not too fervent for the expression of our gratitude. " Blessings bo with them, and eternal praise. Who gave us nobler...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... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ballads, Irish - 1845 - 262 pages
...might become a second conscience in manhood and old age. " Blessing be with them—and eternal prni=e. Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares— The...who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight—by heavenly lays !" Where it is a common enjoyment, civilization has not much to do. How... | |
 | 1883 - 798 pages
...cleft for me," we forget his rigid predestination, but class all them together, and speak of them as " The poets, who, on earth, have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." In bringing the subject of " Hymn-Writers and their Hymns " before our readers of this magazine there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...to the Moor, And heavenly Una with her milk-white lamb. Blessings be with them and eternal praise, The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight in deathless lays. Oh, might my name be number'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...and joyous thoughts ; And thus from day to day my little boat Rocks in its harbor, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal dayg. , LETTER IV. .'o THE EDITOR OF THE ATHENAEUM... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 276 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...heirs Of truth, and pure delight, by heavenly lays." THE CURATE'S TALE, OR PRACTICAL JOKING. I CANNOT endure, said Mr Dodsley, to see young persons attempting... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...and baleful regions ; or like beams of light from Heaven, directing men towards the skies. " Blessing be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler...heirs Of Truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." So sings Wordsworth — himself entitled to the rapturous homage, which he heaps upon Ьи noble predecessors... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...England. As it is, it stands one more lonely and scathed testimony to the evil fortunes of poets: — " The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heaveuly lays ! " yet who, themselves, of all men are still shown by a wise Providence to be " pilgrims... | |
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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... 
