 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...  Shelburne Essays - Pagina 29door Paul Elmer More - 1910 - 269 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1851 - 568 pagina’s
...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 - 492 pagina’s
...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 - 488 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 744 pagina’s
...perform, long after we (that is, all that is mortal of us) are mouldering in our graves." Again : " I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." This language is not vanity, but the calm confidence of a man who feels the rock under his foot, knows... | |
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