Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew ArnoldHoughton Mifflin, 1913 - 341 sider |
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... Poetry and the Classics ( 1853 ) . 1 2. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time ( 1864 ) • 3. The Study of Poetry ( 1880 ) . 4. Literature and Science ( 1882 ) . II . LITERARY CRITICISM : · 2355 20 55 87 • 1. Heinrich Heine ( 1863 ) ...
... Poetry and the Classics ( 1853 ) . 1 2. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time ( 1864 ) • 3. The Study of Poetry ( 1880 ) . 4. Literature and Science ( 1882 ) . II . LITERARY CRITICISM : · 2355 20 55 87 • 1. Heinrich Heine ( 1863 ) ...
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... poetry was published . Four years later he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Ox- ford . Of his prose , the first book to attract wide notice was that containing the lectures On Translating Homer delivered from the chair of Poetry and ...
... poetry was published . Four years later he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Ox- ford . Of his prose , the first book to attract wide notice was that containing the lectures On Translating Homer delivered from the chair of Poetry and ...
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... poetry is the poetry of meditation and not the poetry of passion ; it comes from " the depth and not the tumult of the soul " ; it does not make us more ers and his joyful , but it helps us to greater depth of vision , greater ...
... poetry is the poetry of meditation and not the poetry of passion ; it comes from " the depth and not the tumult of the soul " ; it does not make us more ers and his joyful , but it helps us to greater depth of vision , greater ...
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... poets and the ancient Stoic philosophers have nothing of this dust and heat about them , and to them Arnold turns to gather truth and to imitate their spirit . Similarly , two poets of modern times , Goethe and Wordsworth , have won ...
... poets and the ancient Stoic philosophers have nothing of this dust and heat about them , and to them Arnold turns to gather truth and to imitate their spirit . Similarly , two poets of modern times , Goethe and Wordsworth , have won ...
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... poetry than that of the wisdom of resignation and self- dependence . These great masters , then , strengthened Arnold in those high instincts which needed nourishment in a day of spir- itual unrest . From the Greek poets he learned to ...
... poetry than that of the wisdom of resignation and self- dependence . These great masters , then , strengthened Arnold in those high instincts which needed nourishment in a day of spir- itual unrest . From the Greek poets he learned to ...
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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...