Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 Seiten |
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... man's energy toward utilitarian ends . The power of beauty , the power of intellect and knowledge , the power of social manners are atrophied . Society is in serious danger unless men of this class can be touched with a sense of their ...
... man's energy toward utilitarian ends . The power of beauty , the power of intellect and knowledge , the power of social manners are atrophied . Society is in serious danger unless men of this class can be touched with a sense of their ...
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... man's nature . Yet their theories and 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 ...
... man's nature . Yet their theories and 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 ...
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... man's origin , his moral nature , his rela- tions to his fellows , his place in the physical universe , his religions , his sacred books - all these utterances are to be received with entire loyalty so far as they can be shown to embody ...
... man's origin , his moral nature , his rela- tions to his fellows , his place in the physical universe , his religions , his sacred books - all these utterances are to be received with entire loyalty so far as they can be shown to embody ...
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... man's translation of Homer , and , accordingly , he gives large parts of the lectures on Translating Homer to the illustration of its shortcomings and maladroitness ; he is bent on showing how inadequate is great learning alone to cope ...
... man's translation of Homer , and , accordingly , he gives large parts of the lectures on Translating Homer to the illustration of its shortcomings and maladroitness ; he is bent on showing how inadequate is great learning alone to cope ...
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... man's ideal of selfish hap- piness - as the true moral ideal ? Arnold represents himself as travelling on a suburban railway on which a murder has recently been committed , and as falling . into chat with the middle - class frequenters ...
... man's ideal of selfish hap- piness - as the true moral ideal ? Arnold represents himself as travelling on a suburban railway on which a murder has recently been committed , and as falling . into chat with the middle - class frequenters ...
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admirable Arminius Arnold beauty Bible Bishop Bishop Colenso Carlyle Celt Celtic Celtic Literature Chapman charm conception conduct criticism Culture and Anarchy Daily Telegraph Emerson emotion England Epictetus Essays Eternal feel Frederic Harrison genius George Sand German give Goethe grand style Greek happiness Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hellenism human nature ideal ideas Iliad imagination instinct intellectual intelligence knowledge language lectures letters literary live Lord man's manner matter Matthew Arnold mean mind modern moral movement nation ness Newman noble ourselves Oxford passage passion perfection perhaps Philistine philosophy phrase plain Plato play poem poet poetic poetry political practical prose Protestantism question race reader religion religious righteousness seems sense Sophocles speak spirit sure sweetness and light temper things thou thought tion Translating Homer translation of Homer true truth whole words Wordsworth writings
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Seite 306 - Homer ruled as his demesne : 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...
Seite 216 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Seite 137 - Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic ! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines ! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties...
Seite 306 - That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne ; 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...
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.
Seite 123 - God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Seite 137 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Seite 169 - ... position when it seems gained, we have kept up our own communications with the future.