Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldH. Holt, 1897 - 348 páginas |
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Página xvii
... 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 shortcomings ; made aware of the larger values 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 shortcomings ; made aware of the larger values of ...
Página xviii
... beauty and knowledge- these limited theories and conceptions have imposed themselves constrainingly on many generations of Englishmen . To - day they remain , in all their nar- rowness and with an ever increasing disproportion to ...
... beauty and knowledge- these limited theories and conceptions have imposed themselves constrainingly on many generations of Englishmen . To - day they remain , in all their nar- rowness and with an ever increasing disproportion to ...
Página xix
... beauty . Yes , and for the philosopher and the scholar , too , over - intellectualism has its peculiar dan- gers . The devotee of a system of thought is apt to lose touch with the real values of life , and in his exor- bitant desire for ...
... beauty . Yes , and for the philosopher and the scholar , too , over - intellectualism has its peculiar dan- gers . The devotee of a system of thought is apt to lose touch with the real values of life , and in his exor- bitant desire for ...
Página xx
... beauty , and the power of social life and manners , he [ Professor Huxley ] can hardly deny that this scheme , though drawn in rough and plain lines enough , and not pre- tending to scientific exactness , does yet give a fairly true ...
... beauty , and the power of social life and manners , he [ Professor Huxley ] can hardly deny that this scheme , though drawn in rough and plain lines enough , and not pre- tending to scientific exactness , does yet give a fairly true ...
Página xxi
... beauty , that the spirit of the human race finds its ideal . To reach this ideal , culture is an indispensable aid , and that is the true value of culture . ' 999 1 In such passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to ...
... beauty , that the spirit of the human race finds its ideal . To reach this ideal , culture is an indispensable aid , and that is the true value of culture . ' 999 1 In such passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to ...
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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 English 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 literature live 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 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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Página 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...
Página 189 - 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 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 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?
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 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...
Página 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...
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.