Matthew ArnoldMacmillan & Company, limited, 1902 - 188 páginas |
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... said of Sophocles , to see life steadily , and see it whole . But he saw it as a scholar and a man of letters . He interpreted greater minds than his own . He almost A fulfilled his ideal . He knew , so far at CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
... said of Sophocles , to see life steadily , and see it whole . But he saw it as a scholar and a man of letters . He interpreted greater minds than his own . He almost A fulfilled his ideal . He knew , so far at CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
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... care for things of the mind his work must ever be dear . Something of his own radiant and sym- pathetic personality pervades all his writings , except perhaps when he is dealing with Dissenters . It would 4 [ CHAP . MATTHEW ARNOLD .
... care for things of the mind his work must ever be dear . Something of his own radiant and sym- pathetic personality pervades all his writings , except perhaps when he is dealing with Dissenters . It would 4 [ CHAP . MATTHEW ARNOLD .
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... minds so utterly dissimilar to his own as Mark Pattison's and Anthony Froude's . But upon Matthew Arnold he seems to have had no effect whatever . Perhaps the influence of Dr. Arnold , who regarded Newman as something very like Anti ...
... minds so utterly dissimilar to his own as Mark Pattison's and Anthony Froude's . But upon Matthew Arnold he seems to have had no effect whatever . Perhaps the influence of Dr. Arnold , who regarded Newman as something very like Anti ...
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... mind in which he could regard the Reisebilder as " the most ridiculous thing in the world . " The author of Heine's Grave knew that to speak of Heine as a man who tried to be gloomy was the reverse of the truth . Heine's model was not ...
... mind in which he could regard the Reisebilder as " the most ridiculous thing in the world . " The author of Heine's Grave knew that to speak of Heine as a man who tried to be gloomy was the reverse of the truth . Heine's model was not ...
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... mind and soul . Everything in the book was republished , except " The Hayswater Boat , " which hardly deserved exclusion . But " Resignation " is part of Mr. Arnold's life and character . We cannot think of him without it . At the very ...
... mind and soul . Everything in the book was republished , except " The Hayswater Boat , " which hardly deserved exclusion . But " Resignation " is part of Mr. Arnold's life and character . We cannot think of him without it . At the very ...
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Página 101 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 75 - 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, io which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 77 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear ; every hope will forward it; and t/ien they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate.
Página 35 - And yet what days were those, Parmenides ! When we were young, when we could number friends In all the Italian cities like ourselves, When with elated hearts we join'd your train. Ye Sun-born Virgins ! on the road of truth. Then we could still enjoy, then neither thought Nor outward things were closed and dead to us But we received the shock of mighty thoughts On simple minds with a pure natural joy; And if the sacred load oppress'd our brain, We had the power to feel the pressure eased, The brow...
Página 102 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; 11.
Página 40 - WE cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
Página 104 - Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride; I come to shed them at their side.
Página 118 - ... position when it seems gained, we have kept up our own communications with the future.
Página 9 - Still thou turnedst, and still Beckonedst the trembler, and still Gavest the weary thy hand. If, in the paths of the world, Stones might have wounded thy feet, Toil or dejection have tried Thy spirit, of that we saw Nothing - to us thou wast still Cheerful, and helpful, and firm!
Página 46 - Desire not that, my father! thou must live: For some are born to do great deeds, and live, As some are born to be obscur'd, and die. Do thou the deeds I die too young to do, And reap a second glory in thine age: Thou art my father, and thy gain is mine. But come: thou seest this great host of men Which follow me; I pray thee, slay not these! Let me entreat for them: what have they done?