...age, to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this ls their office, which I trust they will faithfully perform long after we (that ia, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. . . . To conclude, my ears are stone-dead...

...young, and the gracious of every age, to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous — this is their office, which...graves. I am well aware how far it would seem to many that I over-rate my own exertions, when I speak in this way, in direct connection with the volume I...

...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous : this is their office, which...seem, to many, I overrate my own exertions when I apeak in this way, in direct connection with the volume I have just made public. I am not, however,...

...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous, — this is their office, which...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves." Never have the essential moral characteristics of Wordsworth's poetry been set forth with truer insight...

...Convention of Cintra, which was published too late to attract and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous; this is their office, which...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. . . . To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle Im/.y. [of hostile criticism], and my flesh...

...age to see, to think, to feel, and therefore to become actively and securely virtuous ; this is the office which I trust they will faithfully perform...that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves." " Any great and original writer," says Wordsworth, defending himself from the missiles of the tribe...

...Convention of Cintra, which was published too late to attract and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which...faithfully perform long after we (that is, all that ia mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. . . . To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle...

...therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; — this is their office, which I trust they will perform long after we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. . . . These [fashionable] people, in the senseless hurry of their idle lives, do not read books, they...

...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and securely virtuous ; — this is their office, which I trust they will perform long after we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldered in our graves. . . . These...

...young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and, therefore, to become more actively and securely virtuous ; this is their office, which...public. I am not, however, afraid of such censure.' And, to Sir George Beaumont, he writes : ' Let the poet first consult his own heart, as I have done,...