I doubt not that you will share with me an invincible confidence that niy 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... Lippincott's Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 7291888Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1851 - 568 pàgines
...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... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pàgines
...original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron...petty stings ; and after what I have said, I am sure you will be the same."* In a letter to Montgomery the poet, and on various other occasions, he maintains... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1851 - 684 pàgines
...they may talk about them." " To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh is insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and after...what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same." The tone of the letter is that of entire indifference to present popularity. There is no anger, no... | |
| 1851 - 650 pàgines
...they may talk about them." " To conclude, my cars are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh is insensible as iron to these petty stings ; and after...what I have said, I am sure yours will be the same." The tone of the letter is that of entire indifference to present popularity. There is no anger, no... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...produced; and if this be possible, it must be the work of time. To conclude, my ears are stone dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty stings." * Wordsworth's estimate of the capability of the age to enjoy poetry was not high. " It is an awful... | |
| 1859 - 890 pàgines
...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... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pàgines
...immediate effect of his writings on the public. But, he adds, as to the assaults of the critics, " My ears are stone-deaf to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty stings. I have an invincible confidence that my poems will co-operate with the benign tendencies in human nature... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1870 - 342 pàgines
...mouldered in our graves To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz [of hostile criticism], and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty...yours will be the same. I doubt not that you will (hare with me an invincible confidence that my writings (and among them these little poems) will co-operate... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pàgines
...produced ; and if this be possible, it must be a work of time. To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz, and my flesh as insensible as iron...these petty stings ; and, after what I have said, 1 am sure yours will be the same. I doubt not you will share with me an invincible confidence that... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pàgines
...mouldered in our graves To conclude, my ears are stone-dead to this idle buzz [of hostile criticism], and my flesh as insensible as iron to these petty...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) will co-operate... | |
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