Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 Seiten |
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... true account of the matter seems rather to lie in the paradox that the apparent superciliousness of Arnold's style comes from the very intensity of his moral earnestness , and that the limitations of his style and method are largely due ...
... true account of the matter seems rather to lie in the paradox that the apparent superciliousness of Arnold's style comes from the very intensity of his moral earnestness , and that the limitations of his style and method are largely due ...
Seite xx
... true representation of the matter . Human nature is built up of these powers ; we have the need for them all . When we have rightly met and adjusted the claims for them all , we shall then be in a fair way for getting soberness and ...
... true representation of the matter . Human nature is built up of these powers ; we have the need for them all . When we have rightly met and adjusted the claims for them all , we shall then be in a fair way for getting soberness and ...
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... true value of culture . ' 999 1 In such passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to defining the perfect human type . He does not profess to define it universally and in ab- stract terms , for indeed he " hates ...
... true value of culture . ' 999 1 In such passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to defining the perfect human type . He does not profess to define it universally and in ab- stract terms , for indeed he " hates ...
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... true rela- tions to abstract standards of right and wrong . They mistake means for ends , machinery for the results that machinery is meant to secure ; they lose all sense of values and exalt temporary measures into matters of sacred ...
... true rela- tions to abstract standards of right and wrong . They mistake means for ends , machinery for the results that machinery is meant to secure ; they lose all sense of values and exalt temporary measures into matters of sacred ...
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... true , as ade- quate to his purpose the traditional division of English society into upper , middle , and lower classes . But he then goes on to give an analysis of each of these classes that is novel , penetrating , in the highest ...
... true , as ade- quate to his purpose the traditional division of English society into upper , middle , and lower classes . But he then goes on to give an analysis of each of these classes that is novel , penetrating , in the highest ...
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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.