Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?C. Scribner & Company, 1871 - 378 Seiten |
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... Arnold without feeling his mind and heart made better , and his best resolves invigorated . " " Horner says of the life of Sir Matthew Hale , that it filled him with enthusiasm ; and of Condorcet's Eloge of Haller , ' I never rise from ...
... Arnold without feeling his mind and heart made better , and his best resolves invigorated . " " Horner says of the life of Sir Matthew Hale , that it filled him with enthusiasm ; and of Condorcet's Eloge of Haller , ' I never rise from ...
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... Matthew Arnold and F. W. Newman . We may be satisfied to ad- here to the definition of Lord Bacon , that poetry is a species of feigned history . Every description of poetry may with no great violence be brought under this comprehensive ...
... Matthew Arnold and F. W. Newman . We may be satisfied to ad- here to the definition of Lord Bacon , that poetry is a species of feigned history . Every description of poetry may with no great violence be brought under this comprehensive ...
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... Matthew Arnold is in the right when he insists that there must be something of the grand style in every com- position that is truly poetic . This leads the reader or critic almost instinctively to reject the trivial and the low , or ...
... Matthew Arnold is in the right when he insists that there must be something of the grand style in every com- position that is truly poetic . This leads the reader or critic almost instinctively to reject the trivial and the low , or ...
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... Matthew Arnold , in England ; Dana , Pierpont , Percival , Bryant , Longfel- low , Lowell , Whittier , and Emerson in America , follow in great or less measure the impulses of the modern school , which we need not characterize . Last of ...
... Matthew Arnold , in England ; Dana , Pierpont , Percival , Bryant , Longfel- low , Lowell , Whittier , and Emerson in America , follow in great or less measure the impulses of the modern school , which we need not characterize . Last of ...
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... Matthew Arnold . Criticism itself has become a department of literature , and is justified in its claims by being also historical , philosophical , and almost creative of 265 CHAPTER XVII THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE.
... Matthew Arnold . Criticism itself has become a department of literature , and is justified in its claims by being also historical , philosophical , and almost creative of 265 CHAPTER XVII THE CRITICISM AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE.
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Seite 376 - With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Seite 84 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Seite 82 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 23 - OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker.
Seite 52 - Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
Seite 22 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth : and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself — kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 276 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Seite 242 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Seite 75 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.
Seite 83 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.