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 | Oxford (England) - 1911 - 492 pages
...Murray, iSSS. A Voice in at. WHO could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in Mary^s the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and tlien, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1906 - 1034 pages
...Clough's friend Matthew Arnold told us, in his own inimitable manner, of the charm that voice had for him: Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts that were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful! It was clear that the spiritual forces of... | |
 | Oxford (England) - 1912 - 496 pages
...Murray, 1888. A Voloe in Bt. WHO could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in Mar* « the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St....were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? Happy the man who in that susceptible season of youth hears such voices ! They are a possession to... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Arts - 1914 - 508 pages
...their generation. Matthew Arnold's description of Newman at Oxford1 remains forever in the memory: "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 weariness and sickness, fightings and despondings, languor... | |
 | Sidney Leslie Ollard - Oxford movement - 1915 - 374 pages
...never at any period of his career had any sympathy with the objects of the Movement. Yet he writes, " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light of the aisles of 1 JC Shairp, Studies in Poetry and Philosophy, 1868, pp. S. Mary's, rising into the... | |
 | Ethical culture movement - 1915 - 266 pages
...was Newman, then preaching at St. Mary's : "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music?" Then there was the puissant voice of Carlyle, "so sorely strained and overused, and since misused ;... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 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,...into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of 20 voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet,... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - Democracy - 1918 - 448 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,...subtle, sweet, mournful? I seem to hear him still, saying: "After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings and despondings, langour... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 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,...into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of 20 voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet,... | |
 | Septimus Rivington - Genealogy - 1919 - 256 pages
...' Who could resist the charm of that spiritual appearance, gliding in the dim afternoon light of S. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then in the most...with words and thoughts which were a religious music, soft, sweet, mournful.' ' Without the sermons,' Dean Church writes, ' the movement would never have... | |
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