The Arnoldian, Volumes 7-9Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1979 |
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... Idea of History John J. Conlon 21 Nature as Culture : A Review of Nature and the Victorian Imagination Robert Ackermann 25 Editor's Page The Winter , 1980 issue will be special . The Arnoldian will fill its pages with Victorian cartoons ...
... Idea of History John J. Conlon 21 Nature as Culture : A Review of Nature and the Victorian Imagination Robert Ackermann 25 Editor's Page The Winter , 1980 issue will be special . The Arnoldian will fill its pages with Victorian cartoons ...
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... eradication of English provincialism and isolationism in the world of ideas . For Arnold , " much of the best that is known and thought in the world 99 cannot be of English growth . " Ironically , it Fall 1979 PAGE 3.
... eradication of English provincialism and isolationism in the world of ideas . For Arnold , " much of the best that is known and thought in the world 99 cannot be of English growth . " Ironically , it Fall 1979 PAGE 3.
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... ideas of the period . " In view of the founding dates of the Journal of the History of Ideas or Victorian Studies or the interest of a Basil Willey , a Jacques Barzun , or the Tillotsons , one wonders if such a manifesto is needed . In ...
... ideas of the period . " In view of the founding dates of the Journal of the History of Ideas or Victorian Studies or the interest of a Basil Willey , a Jacques Barzun , or the Tillotsons , one wonders if such a manifesto is needed . In ...
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... ideas in The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge , England : Cambridge University Press , 1978 ) . The dialectic in the light of which this important study proceeds is expressed by contrasting quotations that serve ...
... ideas in The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge , England : Cambridge University Press , 1978 ) . The dialectic in the light of which this important study proceeds is expressed by contrasting quotations that serve ...
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... idea of organic form ; Clough's achievement therefore must be measured by his own , not by Arnoldian standards . Dettleff , Shirley M. " Hebraism and Hellenism in Melville's Clarel : The Influence of Arnold , Goethe , and Schiller ...
... idea of organic form ; Clough's achievement therefore must be measured by his own , not by Arnoldian standards . Dettleff , Shirley M. " Hebraism and Hellenism in Melville's Clarel : The Influence of Arnold , Goethe , and Schiller ...
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Page 47 - But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Page 70 - THE future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.
Page 52 - He who knows that power is inborn, that he is weak because he has looked for good out of him and elsewhere, and, so perceiving, throws himself unhesitatingly on his thought, instantly rights himself, stands in the erect position, commands his limbs, works miracles; just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head.
Page 29 - Paul, one feels inclined to rub one's eyes and ask oneself whether man is indeed a gentle and simple being, showing the traces of a noble and divine nature ; or an unhappy chained captive, labouring with groanings that cannot be uttered to free himself from the body of this death.
Page 25 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 28 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Page 76 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather; that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
Page 28 - ... his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.