Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 páginas |
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Página xvii
... sense of their shortcomings ; made aware of the larger values of life ; made pervious to ideas ; brought to recognize the importance of the things of the mind and the spirit . Another partial ideal , the prevalence of which Arnold ...
... sense of their shortcomings ; made aware of the larger values of life ; made pervious to ideas ; brought to recognize the importance of the things of the mind and the spirit . Another partial ideal , the prevalence of which Arnold ...
Página xix
... sense . Men of all these various types offend through their fanatical devotion to truth ; for , indeed , as someone has in recent years well said , the intellect is “ but a parvenu , ” and the other powers of life , despite the ...
... sense . Men of all these various types offend through their fanatical devotion to truth ; for , indeed , as someone has in recent years well said , the intellect is “ but a parvenu , ” and the other powers of life , despite the ...
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... sense of values and exalt temporary measures into matters of sacred import ; finally they come to that pass of ineptitude which Arnold symbolizes by the enthusiasm . of Liberals over the measure to enable a man to marry his deceased ...
... sense of values and exalt temporary measures into matters of sacred import ; finally they come to that pass of ineptitude which Arnold symbolizes by the enthusiasm . of Liberals over the measure to enable a man to marry his deceased ...
Página xxvi
... sense of beauty . Science puts before the student the crude facts of nature , bids him accept them dispassionately , rid himself of all discoloring moods as he watches the play of physical force , and convert himself into pure ...
... sense of beauty . Science puts before the student the crude facts of nature , bids him accept them dispassionately , rid himself of all discoloring moods as he watches the play of physical force , and convert himself into pure ...
Página xxix
... sense , - -a sense which is at the same time solid , -with the like power in the old materialistic and miraculous sense for the Bible , which is not . " This definition of what Arnold hopes to do for the Bible may be supplemented by a ...
... sense , - -a sense which is at the same time solid , -with the like power in the old materialistic and miraculous sense for the Bible , which is not . " This definition of what Arnold hopes to do for the Bible may be supplemented by a ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página lxxii - Darwin's famous proposition that ' our ancestor was a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 190 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.