 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
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...of his own works, " 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." He recognised in a fuller degree than any of his predecessors that truth, in all its splendid variety... | |
 | William Wordsworth - England - 1907 - 546 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 - Literary Criticism - 1907 - 596 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, eagerly... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - Criticism - 1910 - 284 pages
...create the taste by which he is to be relished; he must teach the art by which he is to be seen. ... I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier. On lower ground these Letters may be considered, and so I would consider them here, as a fresh chapter... | |
 | English literature - 1910 - 356 pages
...concerning his poems : ' ' They will cooperate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, and will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better and happier. ' ' JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (1818-1894) THE SAILING OF THE SPANISH ARMADA* The weather moderating, the... | |
 | Willingham Franklin Rawnsley - English poetry - 1912 - 336 pages
...works, viz., that " they will cooperate with the benign tendencies in human nature and society, and will in their degree be efficacious in making men wiser, better and happier." NOTE The following remarks on the rustic figures in Wordsworth's poems have been communicated to me... | |
 | Mabel Duckitt - English letters - 1913 - 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. I will not apologize for this letter, though its length demands an apology. . . . To SIR... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Fiction - 1913 - 376 pages
...concerning his poems : " They will cooperate with the benign tendencies• in human nature and society, and will, in their degree, be efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." III. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES SWEETNESS AND LIGHT1 THE disparagers of culture make its motive curiosity... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - Poets, English - 1916 - 330 pages
...conclude, my ears are stone deaf to this idle buzz, and my flesh insensible to these petty stings. I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible...efficacious in making men wiser, better, and happier." This confidence was rewarded by a sense of slow growth in the interest of the public; but it was his misfortune... | |
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