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" 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 54
by John Campbell Shairp - 1872 - 399 pages
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the poets of lhkeland wordsworth

T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 pages
...our intellectual constitution. And he further expresses ' an invincible confidence that his writings will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier'. The cottage at Town End, Grasmere, proving too small for comfort in winter, the poet and his family,...
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Text-book of Poetry: From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, Beattie, Goldsmith ...

Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 pages
...yours will be the same. I doubt not you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writings will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." A great deal has been written upon Wordsworth ; for, in truth, no one who has ouce been fairly touched...
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Lectures, Addresses and Other Literary Remains

Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...sensible 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,...
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Among My Books: 2d ser

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 350 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." Here is an odd reversal of the ordinary relation between an unpopular poet and his little public of...
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Aesthetical and literary

William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 366 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,...
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Among My Books: Second Series

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pages
...I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will {hare with me an invincible confluence that my writings (and among them these little poems)...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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The treasury of modern biography, compiled by R. Cochrane, Issue 92

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 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." Once more, he says to Sir George Beaumont: "Let the poet first consult his own heart as I have done,...
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English Lake District as Interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth

William Angus Knight, William Wordsworth - England - 1878 - 284 pages
...My ears are stone-deaf to their idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to their petty stings. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...society wherever found; and that they will, in their degrees, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and / happier." Again, in the same strain, to...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, with a Memoir, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1878 - 790 pages
...have said, I am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will sluire with me an invin'.ible confidence that my writings (and among them these...their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, bet.er, and happier. Farewell! I will not apologize for this letter, though its length demands an apology....
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Studies in Philosophy and Literature

William Angus Knight - Aesthetics - 1879 - 456 pages
...My ears are stonedeaf to their idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to their petty stings. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier.' Again, in the same strain, to Sir George Beaumont he writes : ' Let the poet first consult his own...
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