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LINES 30-36 And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration:—feelings too Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love. Lines 30-36 continue the poem's abundant use of consonance, assonance, and other sound effects as the speaker describes the effect that remembering this setting has had on him. For example, building on his description of the “sensations sweet” he experienced through remembering this landscape, the speaker says that these memories enabled his “passing even into [his] purer mind.” The alliteration of “passing” and “purer” lends the phrase a bright quality and connects the idea of purity with the verb “passing,” suggesting a kind of movement into this pure state. The /p/ sounds then pops up again and again throughout the following lines, in words like "pleasure" and "perhaps," suggesting this joyful movement through the poem's sound itself. After the caesura in the middle of line 31, which suggests a slight shift in thought after "restoration," the speaker describes how thinking of this place has brought him “unremembered pleasure.” Here, the speaker suggests that he might not even remember all the exact ways these memories helped him, but he is sure that they did help him nonetheless. These “unremembered” feelings, the speaker goes on to suggest, are those that influence and make possible “that best portion of a good man’s life,” including his small acts “of kindness and of love.” These acts are described as “little, nameless,” and “unremembered.” Yet the speaker emphasizes their importance and insists that they are what make up “the best portion” of someone’s life. The speaker also indicates that memories of this landscape have made him more ethical and kinder to others. This sense of the profound, subtle nature of the landscape’s influence on the speaker is emphasized by the enjambment in “acts / Of kindness and of love,” which makes these lines stand out from the mostly end-stopped lines around them.