...feeling for poets, nor appreciation of their poetry : we enthusiastically exclaim, with Wordsworth,—- " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets,...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...

...joyous thoughts ; And thus, from day to day, my little boat Bocks in its harbor, lodging peaceably. — Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, — The...heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays ! 0, might my name be numbered among theirs, How gladly would I end my mortal days !" * — Thoma*...

...rescued from idle oblivion, their names again household words, and their spirits household gods ! " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets...us heirs Of truth and 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...

...rescued from idle oblivion, their names again household words, and their spirits household gods 1 " Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, The poets...us heirs Of truth and 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...

...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 name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal diiys ! " Chairman. If no other gentleman...

...— " 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." This benediction is not due to all, however rightfully they may claim the title of poet. There is one...

...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 numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.* INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC...

...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...

...death. '• 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...pure delight by heavenly lays. O ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days ! " Chairman. If no other gentleman is...

...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." I shall now read you a passage from a letter written by Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, in which he answers...