Wordsworth cared little for books, and disparaged Goethe. I admire Wordsworth, as he is, so much that I cannot wish him different ; and it is vain, no doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different;... Matthew Arnold und Deutschland - Seite 71von Johannes Renwanz - 1927 - 103 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1940 - 552 Seiten
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| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 Seiten
...suppose that he could have been differer.t ; but surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth even a greater poet than he is, — his thought richer, and...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him. But to speak of books and reading may easily lead to a misunderstanding here. It was not really books... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 334 Seiten
...doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different; but surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him. But to speak of books and reading may easily lead to a misunderstanding here. It was not really books... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 332 Seiten
...doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different; but surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth an even greater poet than he is,—his thought richer, and his influence of wider application,—was that he should have read more... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1866 - 528 Seiten
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| Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - 1869 - 438 Seiten
...doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different ; but surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth...of wider application, — was that he should have / , , reaxLjaore—hooks, among them, no"3oubt, those of that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 Seiten
...doubt, to imagine such a man different from what he is, to suppose that he could have been different. But surely the one thing wanting to make Wordsworth...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him. But to speak of books and reading may easily lead to a misunderstanding here. It was not really books... | |
| James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 Seiten
...sympathies, had he read more. As Matthew Arnold, the foremost critic of the nineteenth century, declares : ' The one thing wanting to make Wordsworth an even greater...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him.' Wordsworth was a maker, rather than a reader of books. And a good deal of his delightful philosophy... | |
| James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 Seiten
...sympathies, had he read more. As \ Matthew Arnold, the foremost critic of the nineteenth century, asserts : ' The one thing wanting to make Wordsworth an even greater...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him.' Wordsworth was a maker, rather than a reader, of books. And a good deal of his delightful philosophy... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 Seiten
...Shelley so incoherent, Wordsworth even, profound as he is, yet so wanting in completeness and variety. Wordsworth cared little for books, and disparaged...that Goethe whom he disparaged without reading him. But to speak of books and reading may easily lead to a misunderstanding here. It was not really books... | |
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