Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldH. Holt, 1897 - 348 páginas |
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Página xxvii
... learning alone to cope with any nice literary problem . New- man's philological knowledge of Greek and of Homer is beyond dispute , but his taste may be judged from his assertion that Homer's verse , if we could hear the liv- ing Homer ...
... learning alone to cope with any nice literary problem . New- man's philological knowledge of Greek and of Homer is beyond dispute , but his taste may be judged from his assertion that Homer's verse , if we could hear the liv- ing Homer ...
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... learning and the long and widely - combined critical effort of Germany formed for Goethe , when he lived and worked . There was no national glow of life and thought there as in the 20 Athens of Pericles or the England of Elizabeth ...
... learning and the long and widely - combined critical effort of Germany formed for Goethe , when he lived and worked . There was no national glow of life and thought there as in the 20 Athens of Pericles or the England of Elizabeth ...
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... , and cannot well give us , like fresh 30 learning , the sense of creative activity . But stop , some one will say ; all this talk is of no practical use to us whatever ; this criticism of yours 36 THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM.
... , and cannot well give us , like fresh 30 learning , the sense of creative activity . But stop , some one will say ; all this talk is of no practical use to us whatever ; this criticism of yours 36 THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM.
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... learning , Professor Newman ; the other by Mr. Wright , the conscientious and painstak- ing translator of Dante . It may safely be asserted that neither of these works will take rank as the standard translation of Homer ; that the task ...
... learning , Professor Newman ; the other by Mr. Wright , the conscientious and painstak- ing translator of Dante . It may safely be asserted that neither of these works will take rank as the standard translation of Homer ; that the task ...
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... learning , 10 with ingenuity , nay , with genius ; but they have two inconveniences , -one general for all who approach them , one particular for the translator . The general inconvenience is that there really exist no data for ...
... learning , 10 with ingenuity , nay , with genius ; but they have two inconveniences , -one general for all who approach them , one particular for the translator . The general inconvenience is that there really exist no data for ...
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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.