The Arnoldian, Volumes 7-9Department of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1979 |
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... moral dimen- sions . Working through the juvenilia to The Strayed Reveller and Empedocles on Etna , Dale makes the interesting points that the evocation of historical process , especially historical decline , occupies a place in ...
... moral dimen- sions . Working through the juvenilia to The Strayed Reveller and Empedocles on Etna , Dale makes the interesting points that the evocation of historical process , especially historical decline , occupies a place in ...
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... morally unwholesome and intellectually debilitating : his aesthetic philosophy rests on the same epistemological basis but gives the simple receptiv- ity of phenomenal experience a certain transcendent value while also driving the ...
... morally unwholesome and intellectually debilitating : his aesthetic philosophy rests on the same epistemological basis but gives the simple receptiv- ity of phenomenal experience a certain transcendent value while also driving the ...
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Vanity Fair's was not the only misreading of Arnold's essentially moral - religious aesthetic , nor did such misreadings stop with the end of the Victorian era . But because Vanity Fair voiced the popular Philistine sentiment of the day ...
Vanity Fair's was not the only misreading of Arnold's essentially moral - religious aesthetic , nor did such misreadings stop with the end of the Victorian era . But because Vanity Fair voiced the popular Philistine sentiment of the day ...
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... Morality " France most fails To exemplify rigidity ; The defect that England ails Must be owned to be " Lucidity . " The Salvation Army shines In devoted intrepidity ; But the fault of its valiant lines Is the foible of no Lucidity ...
... Morality " France most fails To exemplify rigidity ; The defect that England ails Must be owned to be " Lucidity . " The Salvation Army shines In devoted intrepidity ; But the fault of its valiant lines Is the foible of no Lucidity ...
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... morally speaking , I suppose we must admit that it was , but financially it was a success . Probably Life's best expression of paranoia in this respect is Oliver Herford's cartoon , " The Modern Argonauts with Their Golden ' Fleece ...
... morally speaking , I suppose we must admit that it was , but financially it was a success . Probably Life's best expression of paranoia in this respect is Oliver Herford's cartoon , " The Modern Argonauts with Their Golden ' Fleece ...
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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.