 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 my...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 2991831Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...lodging peaceably. 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 number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days. LETTER IV. To... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...gratitude. " Blessings bo 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 !" But, if the composition of history be the work of an artist rather than of a jn,er.e. -chronicler... | |
 | 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... | |
 | sir Charles Gavan Duffy - 1845 - 262 pages
...old age. " Blessing be with them—and eternal prni=e. 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 !" Where it is a common enjoyment, civilization has not much to do. How... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...lodging peaceably. 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 number'd among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal dayg. , LETTER IV.... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...the skies. " Blessing 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." So sings Wordsworth — himself entitled to the rapturous homage, which he heaps upon Ьи noble predecessors... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 276 pages
...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 TALE, OR PRACTICAL JOKING. I CANNOT endure, said Mr Dodsley, to see young persons attempting... | |
 | William Howitt - 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares — The Poeta, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name bo numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days. TO THE SPADE... | |
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