...in their lives. His work has faithfully fulfilled the office which he hoped it would perform — ' to ' console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight...making ' the happy happier; to teach the young and gracious of ' every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to ' become more actively and...

...friend who wrote him a letter of sympathy on occasion of a severe criticism of his poems, he replied : " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...— to console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to the daylight by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and gracious of every age to see, to...

...— among those who are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society.'' " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier; to tench the young and the gracious of every ago to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more...

...— among those who are, or are striving to make themselves, people of consideration in society." " Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...is their destiny ? to console the afflicted, to add snnshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age...

...object, which is to make yon, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...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 the...

...true poet does. A noble work, if any is, and it takes a noble unworldly nature rightly to fulfil it. " 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 active and securely...

...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which...

...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...with what I trust is their destiny ? to console the afflieted ; to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious...

...idle and extravagant stories in verse.* His deliberate pur* Of his poems the author himself says: — "To console the afflicted; to add sunshine to daylight,...happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of eveiy age to see, to think, and to feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous,...

...object, which is to make you, my dear friend, as easy-hearted as myself with respect to these poems. Trouble not yourself upon their present reception...to teach the young and the gracious of every age to gee, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their...