Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew ArnoldHoughton Mifflin, 1913 - 341 sider |
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... ourselves , that makes for righteousness " ; immortality is a union of one's life with an eternal order that never dies . Arnold did not without reluctance enter into religious controversy , but when once entered he did his best to make ...
... ourselves , that makes for righteousness " ; immortality is a union of one's life with an eternal order that never dies . Arnold did not without reluctance enter into religious controversy , but when once entered he did his best to make ...
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... ourselves unable to breathe the rarified air of transcendentalism , we may turn to him for the clarifying and strengthening effect of calm intelligence and pure spirituality . 1 From Dr. Stanley's Lectures on the Jewish Church ...
... ourselves unable to breathe the rarified air of transcendentalism , we may turn to him for the clarifying and strengthening effect of calm intelligence and pure spirituality . 1 From Dr. Stanley's Lectures on the Jewish Church ...
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... ourselves . Let us not bewilder our successors : let us transmit to them the practice of poetry , with its boundaries and whole- some regulative laws , under which excellent works may again , perhaps , at some future time , 18 MATTHEW ...
... ourselves . Let us not bewilder our successors : let us transmit to them the practice of poetry , with its boundaries and whole- some regulative laws , under which excellent works may again , perhaps , at some future time , 18 MATTHEW ...
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... ourselves that he has left us so much criticism . Without wasting time over the exaggeration which Wordsworth's judgment on criticism clearly contains , or over an attempt to trace the causes , -not difficult , I think , to be traced ...
... ourselves that he has left us so much criticism . Without wasting time over the exaggeration which Wordsworth's judgment on criticism clearly contains , or over an attempt to trace the causes , -not difficult , I think , to be traced ...
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... ourselves represent , the men and women , the old Anglo - Saxon race , are the best breed in the whole world . . . . The absence of a too enervating climate , too unclouded skies , and a too luxurious nature , has produced so vigorous a ...
... ourselves represent , the men and women , the old Anglo - Saxon race , are the best breed in the whole world . . . . The absence of a too enervating climate , too unclouded skies , and a too luxurious nature , has produced so vigorous a ...
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Side 80 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a
Side 190 - 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.
Side 101 - And for the generality of men there will be found, I say, to arise, when they have duly taken in the proposition that their ancestor was ' a hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits...
Side 84 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne.
Side 289 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Side 105 - 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?
Side 65 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Side 75 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Side 81 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Side 251 - Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice ; look at them attentively ; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds : would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it...