 It is impossible that any expectations can be lower than mine concerning the immediate effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions, which always stand...  The Great English Letter Writers - Page 153edited by - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pages
...effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions which...feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or without, what have they to do with routs,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pages
...is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all tlio bad passions which always stand in the way of a work...feelings, 'and images, on which the life of my poems depends. It is an awful truth, that there neither is nor can be any genuine enjoyment of poetry among... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions, which...feelings, and images on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or without, what have they to do with routs,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolenee, and all the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of merit from a living poet, but merely think of the pure, absolute, honest ignorance in which all worldlings... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions, which...feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or without — what have they to do with... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 366 pages
...effect of this little work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions, which...worldlings of every rank and situation must be enveloped, BY EEV. FW ROBERTSON. 219 with respect to the thoughts, feelings, and images, on which the life of... | |
 | 1860 - 428 pages
...what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all ihe bad passions, which always stand in the way of a work...feelings, and images on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or without, — what have they to do with... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - Loneliness - 1867 - 420 pages
...feelings, thoughts, and images on which the life of his poems depended, the envy and malevolence which stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet, he had only the lowest expectations concerning the immediate effect of his writings on the public.... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Bible - 1870 - 860 pages
...the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passion^ which always stand in the way of a work of any merit...feelings, and images on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or without — what have they to do with... | |
 | Joseph Torrey - Aesthetics - 1874 - 316 pages
...his collected poems, " merely think of the pure, absolute, honest ignorance in which all worldings of every rank and situation must be enveloped with...feelings, and images, on which the life of my poems depends. The things which I have taken, whether from within or from without, what have they to do with... | |
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