Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 Seiten |
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... conception of the critic was as the guardian of culture , as called upon . to pass judgment on the various expressions of life , and especially upon books in their relation to life , and to determine their influence on the temper and ...
... conception of the critic was as the guardian of culture , as called upon . to pass judgment on the various expressions of life , and especially upon books in their relation to life , and to determine their influence on the temper and ...
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... conception of the critic , Arnold had much to say not only on poetry and belles lettres , but on politics , religion , theology , and the general social con- ditions of his time . The Selections include one or more of his characteristic ...
... conception of the critic , Arnold had much to say not only on poetry and belles lettres , but on politics , religion , theology , and the general social con- ditions of his time . The Selections include one or more of his characteristic ...
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... istic " temper , such inalienable charm . The Puritan- ism of the seventeenth century was the almost unrestricted expression of the Hebraistic temper , and from the conceptions of life that were then wrought out INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... istic " temper , such inalienable charm . The Puritan- ism of the seventeenth century was the almost unrestricted expression of the Hebraistic temper , and from the conceptions of life that were then wrought out INTRODUCTION . xvii.
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... conceptions of life - theories and conceptions that were limited in the first place by the age in which they originated , and in the second place by a Hebraistic lack of sensitiveness to the manifold charm of beauty and knowledge- these ...
... conceptions of life - theories and conceptions that were limited in the first place by the age in which they originated , and in the second place by a Hebraistic lack of sensitiveness to the manifold charm of beauty and knowledge- these ...
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... conception of culture and of its value as a specific against all the ills that society is heir to . Culture 1 God and the Bible , p . xxxiv . ? Literature and Dogma , p . xx hooly is vital knowledge and the critic is its fosterer and ...
... conception of culture and of its value as a specific against all the ills that society is heir to . Culture 1 God and the Bible , p . xxxiv . ? Literature and Dogma , p . xx hooly is vital knowledge and the critic is its fosterer and ...
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Seite 100 - These are the forgeries of jealousy: And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
Seite 216 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Seite 190 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Seite 306 - Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite lxxii - Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.
Seite 153 - But, finally, perfection — as culture, from a thorough disinterested study of human nature and human experience learns to conceive it — is a harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with the over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest.
Seite 124 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Seite 268 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Seite lxx - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Seite 190 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.