Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 páginas |
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Página xvi
... things in life worth while . England is a prevailingly practical nation , and our age is a prevailingly practical age ; the unregenerate product of this nation and age is the Philistine , and against the Philistine Arnold never wearies ...
... things in life worth while . England is a prevailingly practical nation , and our age is a prevailingly practical age ; the unregenerate product of this nation and age is the Philistine , and against the Philistine Arnold never wearies ...
Página xvii
... things of the spirit . The Philistine may , of course , be religious ; but his religion is as materialistic as his everyday existence ; his heaven is a triumph of engi- neering skill and his ideal of future bliss is , in Sydney Smith's ...
... things of the spirit . The Philistine may , of course , be religious ; but his religion is as materialistic as his everyday existence ; his heaven is a triumph of engi- neering skill and his ideal of future bliss is , in Sydney Smith's ...
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... things . Formulas , Arnold urges , have fastened themselves constrainingly upon the English religious mind . Traditional interpreta- tions of the Bible have come to be received as be- yond cavil . These interpretations are really human ...
... things . Formulas , Arnold urges , have fastened themselves constrainingly upon the English religious mind . Traditional interpreta- tions of the Bible have come to be received as be- yond cavil . These interpretations are really human ...
Página xlv
... thing with which one is dealing , not to go off on some collateral issue about the thing , is the hardest matter in the world . The thing itself ' with which one is here dealing - the INTRODUCTION . xlv.
... thing with which one is dealing , not to go off on some collateral issue about the thing , is the hardest matter in the world . The thing itself ' with which one is here dealing - the INTRODUCTION . xlv.
Página xlvi
... things the most volatile , elusive , and evanescent ; by even pressing too impetuously after it , one runs the risk of losing it . The critic of poetry should have the finest tact , the nicest moderation , the most free , flexible , and ...
... things the most volatile , elusive , and evanescent ; by even pressing too impetuously after it , one runs the risk of losing it . The critic of poetry should have the finest tact , the nicest moderation , the most free , flexible , and ...
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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.