Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 6921904Full view - About this book
| 1896 - 588 pages
...who was never one of his followers, to paint the picture of him which will be longest remembered. ' Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after... | |
| American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...had passed. " And another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr. Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain : "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor... | |
| American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...English priest, English, but with overtones French and Jewish, whom Matthew Arnold remembered as a "spiritual apparition . . . gliding in the dim afternoon...were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful." Carlyle and Newman in conjunction would seem to be like a mastiff and a serpent in one harness. And... | |
| English periodicals - 1884 - 506 pages
...renew what was to us the most national and natural institution in the world — the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful :t I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1885 - 234 pages
...renew what was for us the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music,—subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after... | |
| 1887 - 622 pages
...that had passed." And another Oxford professor of poetry, Mr. Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain: "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...subtle, sweet, mournful? I seem to hear him still, saying : 'After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor... | |
| Thomas Leach - Oxford movement - 1887 - 194 pages
...that had passed." Another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr. MatthewArnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of S. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence... | |
| Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 548 pages
...had passed." And another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...a religious music — • subtle, sweet, mournful ? 1 seem to hear him still, paying : ' After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings... | |
| Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1890 - 236 pages
...Arnold has also left on record his impressions of Newman's charm as a preacher. " Who," he asks, " could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? Happy the man who, in the susceptible season of youth, hears such voices ! They are a possession... | |
| English literature - 1890 - 880 pages
...likely to be read as long as he is read, than that which Mr. Arnold gave in a lecture in America : — " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still saying, 'After the fever of life, after weariness... | |
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