Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew ArnoldHolt, 1897 - 348 páginas |
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Página xx
... passages he has recorded clearly enough his notion of the powers in man that are essential to his humanity , and that ... passage may be quoted from the lecture on Literature and Science : " When we set ourselves to enumerate the powers ...
... passages he has recorded clearly enough his notion of the powers in man that are essential to his humanity , and that ... passage may be quoted from the lecture on Literature and Science : " When we set ourselves to enumerate the powers ...
Página xxi
... passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to defining the perfect human type . He does not profess to define it universally and in ab- stract terms , for indeed he " hates " abstractions almost as inveterately as Burke ...
... passages as these Arnold comes as near as he ever comes to defining the perfect human type . He does not profess to define it universally and in ab- stract terms , for indeed he " hates " abstractions almost as inveterately as Burke ...
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... passage just quoted from the lectures on Translating Homer ; it becomes more explicit in the Last Words ap- pended to these lectures , where the critic asserts that " the noble and profound application of ideas to life is the most ...
... passage just quoted from the lectures on Translating Homer ; it becomes more explicit in the Last Words ap- pended to these lectures , where the critic asserts that " the noble and profound application of ideas to life is the most ...
Página xlvi
... passages in his writings where he explains confidentially his methods and his reasons for choosing them . The first occurs in a letter of 1864 : " My sinuous , easy , ' On Translating Homer , p . 245 . " 1 unpolemical mode of proceeding ...
... passages in his writings where he explains confidentially his methods and his reasons for choosing them . The first occurs in a letter of 1864 : " My sinuous , easy , ' On Translating Homer , p . 245 . " 1 unpolemical mode of proceeding ...
Página xlvii
... passage occurs in the Preface to his first series of Essays in Criticism ( 1865 ) : " Indeed , it is not in my nature - some of my critics would rather say not in my power - to dispute on behalf of any opinion , even my own , very obsti ...
... passage occurs in the Preface to his first series of Essays in Criticism ( 1865 ) : " Indeed , it is not in my nature - some of my critics would rather say not in my power - to dispute on behalf of any opinion , even my own , very obsti ...
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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 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 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 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 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.
Página 123 - God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Página 137 - 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, which is only truth seen from another side?
Página 169 - ... position when it seems gained, we have kept up our own communications with the future.