The Arnoldian, Volumes 7-9Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1979 |
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... literary and non - literary subiects 27 94AA2 013 XL 87 2 1 7 31 Matthew Arnold's " The Study of Poetry ” in the Fall 1979 PAGE 1.
... literary and non - literary subiects 27 94AA2 013 XL 87 2 1 7 31 Matthew Arnold's " The Study of Poetry ” in the Fall 1979 PAGE 1.
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... literary events to literature , it has become more and more dif- ficult to discuss literature as if it existed in isolation from the politics , history and ideas of the period . " In view of the founding dates of the Journal of the ...
... literary events to literature , it has become more and more dif- ficult to discuss literature as if it existed in isolation from the politics , history and ideas of the period . " In view of the founding dates of the Journal of the ...
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... literary criticism ” ( 66 ) . Ben Knights of the University of Durham makes a very distinguished contribution to the history of Victorian ideas in The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge , England : Cambridge ...
... literary criticism ” ( 66 ) . Ben Knights of the University of Durham makes a very distinguished contribution to the history of Victorian ideas in The Idea of the Clerisy in the Nineteenth Century ( Cambridge , England : Cambridge ...
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... biographical and general studies , critical studies of the poetry , writings on education , literary , social and political criticism , and books placing Arnold in his times . Creevy , Patrick J. “ Arnold's ' Dover Fall 1979 PAGE 15.
... biographical and general studies , critical studies of the poetry , writings on education , literary , social and political criticism , and books placing Arnold in his times . Creevy , Patrick J. “ Arnold's ' Dover Fall 1979 PAGE 15.
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... literary history , and Burckhardt's epoch - making study of the Renaissance ( 1860 ) as one of growing historical consciousness . As Regius Pro- fessor of Modern History , Stubbs voiced the general concern and guiding principle of ...
... literary history , and Burckhardt's epoch - making study of the Renaissance ( 1860 ) as one of growing historical consciousness . As Regius Pro- fessor of Modern History , Stubbs voiced the general concern and guiding principle of ...
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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.