 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
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse Myron Owen - Literature - 1922 - 544 pages
...WILLIAM WORDSWORTH truly, "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." Wordsworth frequently laid down the principles of his poetic creed. The language suited to verse, he... | |
 | Elizabeth Glass Marshall - Criticism - 1925 - 356 pages
...my flesh as insensible as iron to PORARY these petty stings. ... I doubt not that you will OPINION share with me an invincible confidence that my writings...little poems) will cooperate with the benign tendencies of human nature and society wherever found, and that they will in their degree, be efficacious in making... | |
 | Crane Brinton - English literature - 1926 - 262 pages
...works of Shelley. " 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." ' 1 Yet Shelley was also a force working for social discontent and revolt, and as such has always had... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...works of Shelley. "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." [The End] THE LIMITATIONS OF THE EDUCATIONAL THEOEY OF JOHN LOCKE ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHRISTIAN TEACHER*... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 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.' To the EntTOR of the T1MES. S1R, — Grattan said just before his death, now more than 50 years ago,... | |
 | Ira Livingston - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 276 pages
...inform them) in the contrast between Wordsworth's assertion, in the letter to Lady Beaumont, of his "invincible confidence that my writings (and among...co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature" and Hands's very different prophecy of her reception: "some huzza and some to cursing fall." Rather than... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...effect of 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." Emerson would have concurred with that ending; he thought Wordsworth's shedding of benignant influence... | |
 | North American review - 1851 - 570 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... | |
 | r. abercrombie, m.a. - 1884 - 1138 pages
...in our graves I do not doubt that you will share with me an invincible confidence that my writing*, and among them these little poems, will co-operate with the benign tendencies ia human nature and society, wherever found, and that they will, in their degree, be efficacious in... | |
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