I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.


Letters of the Wordsworth family from 1787 to 1855 (ed. 1907)


I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own...

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own...

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own...

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own...