I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious... Studies in Poetry and Philosophy - Page 54by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1851 - 568 pages
...moral sentiment, or to some general principle, or law of thought, or of our mental constitution. ... I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings will cooperate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 488 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. Farewell II will not apologise for this letter, though its length demands an apology. Believe me, eagerly... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. Farewell II will not apologise for this letter, though its length demands an apology. Believe me, eagerly... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...society, wherever found ; and that they will, in their de gree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. Farewell ! I will not apologize for... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1851 - 566 pages
...constitution. ... I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings will cooperate with the benign tendencies in human...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." Vol. i. pp. 336, 339 - 340. It was this consciousness of the nobleness of his aims, and confidence... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. Farewell! I will not apologize for this letter, though its length demands an apology. Believe me, eagerly... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 432 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...they will, in their degree, be efficacious in making mon wiser, better, and happier.. Farewell! I will not apologize for this letter, though its length... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 376 pages
...insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." In a subsequent letter to Sir George Beaumont, he says, " Let the poet first consult his own heart,... | |
| 1859 - 890 pages
...landscape-gardener (and the same is that of the poet) is to assist Nature in moving the affections. " I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, wherever found ; and that they... | |
| 1864 - 560 pages
...about their present reception ; of what moment is that compared with what I trust is their destiny ? To console the afflicted ; to add sunshine to daylight,...calm confidence of a man who feels the rock under his foot, knows that he is in harmony with the everlasting truth of things. In the issue between the critic... | |
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