 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...  Selections from the Essays of Francis Jeffrey - Pàgina 202per Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1894 - 213 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pàgines
...foresaw that you and my other friends would have to encounter. It is impossible that any expectation can be lower than mine concerning the immediate effect...into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all tlio bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet, but merely... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pàgines
...illustrate his moral history, and his abiding faith in the purpose, and the mission of his inspiration. " It is impossible that any expectations can be lower...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... | |
 | 1860 - 428 pàgines
...to be incompatible with worldliness. To this effect writes an admitted arbiter on such matters : — "'It is impossible that any expectations can be lower...into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all ihe bad passions, which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet; but merely... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pàgines
...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 - 1870 - 860 pàgines
...explains the reason why in one sense his poetry never could be popular with the world of fashion. " It is impossible that any expectations can be lower...immediate effect of this little work upon what is cnlled the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1875 - 728 pàgines
...to a very dear friend, who had expressed great uneasiness on his account, he has the following : " It is impossible that any expectations can be lower than mine concerning the immediate cflect of this little work npon what is called the public. 1 do not here take into consideration the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 738 pàgines
...following : " It is impossible that any expectations can be lower than mine finccrning the immediate errect of this little work upon what is called the public,...take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and ill the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet, but merely... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 454 pàgines
...mind, which the disappointments you sometimes meet with, in this labour of love, may occasion. . . . It is impossible that any expectations can be lower...take into consideration the envy and malevolence, aud all the bad passions which always stand in the way of a work of any merit from a living poet ;... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 pàgines
...1807, to a very dear friend, who had expressed great uneasiness on his account, he has the following: " It is impossible that any expectations can be lower...of this little work upon what is called the public. 1 do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence, and all the bad passions which alwavs... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 pàgines
...continue to write, with, I trust, the light of Heaven upon me." Again, ' It is impossible,' he writes, ' that any expectations can be lower than mine concerning the immediate effect of my work upon what is called the public. I do not here take into consideration the envy and malevolence... | |
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