 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...again household words, and their spirits household gods ! " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be immber'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days." So prayed Wordsworth — not in vain.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...again household words, and their spirits household gods ! " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, Then gladly would I end niy mortal days." So prayed Wordsworth — not in vain.... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...again household words, and their spirits household gods 1 " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among them, Then gladly would I end my mortal days." So prayed Wordsworth — not in vain.... | |
 | 1864 - 492 pages
...poetry : we enthusiastically exclaim, with 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." We thus see that the Christian can have no part nor lot in Shakspere's works as a whole; that they... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...bo to us a solace, and their sweet consolations shall not be wanting in the solemn hour of death. " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares — The poels — who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. O ! might my... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...is, it stands one more lonely and scathed testimony to the evil fortunes of poets :— " The poetB who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays 1" yet who, themselves, of all men are still shown by a wise Providence to be " pilgrims and sojourners... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...joyous thought : And thus, from day to day, my little boat Kooks in its harbour, lodging peaceably. Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among theirs, INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOO. ON his morning rounds the master... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 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...pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be number'd among thevcs, Then gladly would I end my mortal Aaya. INCIDENT * ^ CHARACTERISTIC Off A FAVOURITE... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Recitations - 1858 - 450 pages
...to us a solace, and their sweet consolations shall not be wanting in the solemn hour of death. '• Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave...heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. O ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days ! " Chairman. If... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...and 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...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... | |
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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... 
