 I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and% securely virtuous...  Schelling Anniversary Papers - Page 25by Schelling anniversary papers - 1923 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...degree, be efficacious in making men wiser and better. . . . To console the afflicted ; to add sunlight to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 426 pages
...were received, he adds, " Of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...by making the happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and sincerely... | |
 | John Dennis - Poets, English - 1883 - 424 pages
...were received, he adds, " Of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...by making the happy happier, to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and sincerely... | |
 | Indians of North America - 1913 - 656 pages
...practicality of poetry will not be inappropriate here. "Poetry is," he wrote, "to console the afflicted; add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to think to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...and he holds himself as responsible for obedience to his call and for its fulfilment, as a prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight by making the happy happier j to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become... | |
 | Charles William Stubbs (bp. of Truro.) - Christian sociology - 1884 - 152 pages
...Christian teacher differ from that of the poet ? " Every true poet is a teacher," Wordsworth says; "to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is the true purpose of... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1884 - 654 pages
...prophet. ' To console the afflicted ; to add suns/line to daylight by making the happy happier; to ter.ch the young and the gracious of every age to see, to...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous,' — this is his own account of the purpose of his poetry. (Letter to Lady Beaumont, May, 1807.) He... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...brothers in the effort to make the happy happier, and the sad less miserable; and (in poet's words) " To teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous." High is our calling, friends... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1885 - 328 pages
...yourself upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ?—to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office ; which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we (that is, all that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1885 - 328 pages
...upon their present reception ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight,...therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office ; which I trust they will faithfully perform, long after we (that is, all that... | |
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