...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....

...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...

...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,...

...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....

...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,...earth have made us heirs Of Truth and pure delight by heavenly lays." So sings "Wordsworth — himself entitled to the rapturous homage, which be heaps...

...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...

...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...earth have made 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....

...aspiration of this glorious nature that swells the breast of Wordsworth, when he fervently exclaims ; •' Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who...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 my mortal days...

...aspiration of this glorious nature that swells the breast of Wordsworth, when he fervently exclaims ; " Blessings be with them— and eternal praise, Who...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 my mortal days...

...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...earth, have made 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."...