...Wordsworth is never suggested. Matthew Arnold spoke of Wordsworth's " healing power," and said that " He was a priest to us all Of the wonder and bloom of the world." And to show that Arnold himself had a measure of this same healing power, it is only necessary to cite...

...which can rear them no more ! The complaining millions of men Darken in labour and pain ; But he was a priest to us all Of the wonder and bloom of the world, Which we saw with his eyes, and were glad. He is dead, and the fruit-bearing day Of his race is past...

...which can rear them no more ! The complaining millions of men Darken in labor and pain ; But be was Which we saw with his eyes, and were glad. Ho is dead, and the fruit-bearing day Of his race is past...

...capable of so doing, understand the Nature which God has made. Let us, then, think of Shakespeare, not as a teacher of dry dogmas, or a sayer of hard sayings,..." — — a teacher of the hearts of men and women ; one from whom may be learned something of that inmost principle that ever modulates — " With murmurs...

...understand the nature which God has made. Let us then think of him, * "'Twelfth Night," iii. 2. not as a teacher of dry dogmas, or a sayer of hard sayings,...world ' *— a teacher of the hearts of men and women : one from whom may be learned something of that inmost principle that ever modulates— ' With murmurs...

...understand the nature which God has made. Let us then think of him, * "Twelfth Night," iii. 2. not as a teacher of dry dogmas, or a sayer of hard sayings, but as ' A priest to ua all Of the wonder and bloom of the world ' * — a teacher of the hearts of men and women : one...

...the inns on his law circuit and split Euclid's rails by the light of a tallow dip. Shakespeare, that "priest to us all of the wonder and bloom of the world," broadened and deepened his very human sensibilities; while "the grand simplicities of the Bible" nourished...

...the inns on his law circuit and split Euclid's rails by the light of a tallow dip. Shakespeare, that "priest to us all of the wonder and bloom of the world," broadened and deepened his very human sensibilities; while "the grand simplicities of the Bible" nourished...

...her violets dim but sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. Shakespeare, as Matthew Arnold says, " was a priest to us all of the wonder and bloom of the world." And it is only when we compare the influence which the sickly erotic sentiment of Byron had on his...

...universe " ; and this is why we may describe every true poet, as Arnold once described Wordsworth, as " a priest to us all of the wonder and bloom of the world." How much we need the poet's help, how greatly we are?* benefited by it, a moment's thought will show....