 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 691864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 pages
...rejected of men, the poet expressed in a letter to a friend " an invincible confidence that my writings will cooperate with the benign tendencies in human...degree be efficacious in making men wiser, better, happier." Professor Henry N. Hudson's eloquent "Studies in Wordsworth" (Little, Brown & Co. ) were... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1885 - 300 pages
...It was his own expectation, as he said, that his writings "will co-operate with the benign tendency in human nature and society, wherever found, and that...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." Of their mission, he wrote to his friend, Lady Beaumont, in words of absolute and essential truth,... | |
 | Sir George Howland Beaumont, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Walter Scott - 1887 - 314 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 apologise for this letter, though its length demands an apology.—Believe me,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 360 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. . . . THOMAS DE QUINCEY TO HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. MARGARET CRAIG. Thursday, June 10, 1847. I... | |
 | 1888 - 1052 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." Southey, with far less reason than Wordsworth, had an equally exalted opinion of his own powers, an... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 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...wherever found ; and that they will in their degree bo efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." Here is an odd reversal of the ordinary relation... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1888 - 330 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...human nature and society, wherever found; and that theywill in their degree be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. Farewell. . . . THOMAS... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1889 - 452 pages
...as iron to these petty stings ; and, after all that 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 apologise for this letter, though its length demands an apology. — Believe me,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 284 pages
...concerning his poems : " They will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, and will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." IV. FROM JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL'S ADDRESS AS PRESIDENT OF THE WORDSWORTH SOCIETY, 1884.* As in Catholic... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 432 pages
...petty stings ; and, after what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that yon will share with me an invincible confidence that my...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." Here is an odd reversal of the ordinary relation between an unpopular poet and his little public of... | |
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