 | Laura Lunger Knoppers - 2003 - 272 pagina’s
...to "the spirit of the Oxford Movement . . . [and to] the traditions and beauty of the city itself, 'spreading her gardens to the moonlight and whispering...from her towers the last enchantments of the middle ages.' "-4 In addition to this religious aesthetic, Arnold also absorbed from Newman a critical view... | |
 | Birgit Plietzsch - 2004 - 296 pagina’s
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection."83 (Hardy's omission.) The attributes Jude, quoting Arnold, gives to Christminster "apply... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 2005 - 304 pagina’s
...the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! There are our young barbarians, all at play! And yet steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of... | |
 | John D. Rosenberg - 2005 - 304 pagina’s
...venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantment of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 pagina’s
...may be, against the philistines. TS Eliot rightly observes that Arnold's rhapsodic hymn to Oxford, 'spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age,' has 'not worn' well (1932a, 448). And yet nobody knows better than Eliot the importance of commitments... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2006 - 470 pagina’s
...the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ...Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection/' Another voice was that of the Corn Law convert, whose phantom he had just seen in the quadrangle with... | |
 | Edward Morgan Forster - 2008 - 496 pagina’s
...Here is part of the famous passage when he eulogises Oxford - a city which had25 often irritated him. "And yet steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal... | |
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And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal... 
