Essays: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On Translating Homer (with F. W. Newman's Reply) and Five Other Essays Now for the First Time CollectedH. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1914 - 487 páginas |
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... verse , is quite harmless . ' " It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , 20 that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , volun- tarily doom himself to ...
... verse , is quite harmless . ' " It is almost too much to expect of poor human nature , 20 that a man capable of producing some effect in one line of literature , should , for the greater good of society , volun- tarily doom himself to ...
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... verse than in his prose No doubt his verse suffers from the same defects which impair his prose , and he cannot express himself with real success in it ; but how much more powerful a per- sonage does he appear in it , by dint of feeling ...
... verse than in his prose No doubt his verse suffers from the same defects which impair his prose , and he cannot express himself with real success in it ; but how much more powerful a per- sonage does he appear in it , by dint of feeling ...
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... the compositions of Guérin manifest it , I think , in singular eminence . Not 40 his poems , strictly so called , -his verse , -so much as his ARNOLD F prose ; his poems in general take for their vehicle MAURICE DE GUÉRIN 65.
... the compositions of Guérin manifest it , I think , in singular eminence . Not 40 his poems , strictly so called , -his verse , -so much as his ARNOLD F prose ; his poems in general take for their vehicle MAURICE DE GUÉRIN 65.
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... verse the composer has ( with comparatively narrow liberty of 10 modification ) to accept his vehicle ready - made ; it is therefore of vital importance to him that he should find at his disposal a vehicle adequate to convey the highest ...
... verse the composer has ( with comparatively narrow liberty of 10 modification ) to accept his vehicle ready - made ; it is therefore of vital importance to him that he should find at his disposal a vehicle adequate to convey the highest ...
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... verse : indeed , the advantage here is all the other way . It is in the prose remains of Guérin , his journals , his letters , and the striking composition which I have already mentioned , the Centaur , that his extraordinary gift 20 ...
... verse : indeed , the advantage here is all the other way . It is in the prose remains of Guérin , his journals , his letters , and the striking composition which I have already mentioned , the Centaur , that his extraordinary gift 20 ...
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Essays by Matthew Arnold: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On ... Matthew Arnold Vista completa - 1925 |
Essays: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On Translating Homer (with F. W ... Matthew Arnold Vista de fragmentos - 1936 |
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Página 219 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Página 200 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Página 304 - What is this that he saith unto us, A little while and ye shall not s.ee me ; and again, a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We cannot tell what he saith.
Página 415 - The wretched parents all that night Went shouting far and wide; But there was neither sound nor sight To serve them for a guide. At day-break on a hill they stood That overlooked the moor; And thence they saw the bridge of wood, A furlong from their door. They wept @ and, turning homeward, cried, "In heaven we all ) shall meet;" @ When in the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet.
Página 204 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Página 413 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known, - cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 35 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Página 483 - It is an honour for a man to cease from strife : but every fool will be meddling.
Página 416 - The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 258 - And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays ; The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose umber'd arms by fits thick flashes send ; Loud neigh the coursers o'er their heaps of corn, And ardent warriors wait the rising morn.