 | Matthew Arnold - 1890 - 90 pagina’s
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene. ' There are our young barbarians, all at play I ' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...all 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 Tttbingen.... | |
 | University College of North Wales. Senate - 1892 - 102 pagina’s
...something to the general agreement. Two at least of those given are unique, unapproachable : Oxford ' spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age,' as one of the latest of her great sons has written of her ; and Cambridge, as depicted by that still... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 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 Tubingen.... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 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 Tubingen.... | |
 | 1894 - 500 pagina’s
...venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . . steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection ? " JOHN RUSSELL HAYES. Swarthmort College. EDITORIAL. Miss Anna M. Earle, of PhiladelThe Award phia,... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 478 pagina’s
...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...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1894 - 200 pagina’s
...realised that beautiful vision of Oxford which Dr. Arnold's son has given to the world, when she lay " spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the middle age." Clough, in the fulness of his early intellectual awakening, had already passed beyond the spell even... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 496 pagina’s
...enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all 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... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1895 - 410 pagina’s
...ineffaceable; but the first fine careless rapture found voice in Thalatta. Were it not that Oxford—" steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age " —has since been touched by an incomparable pencil, I might have ventured to reprint a passage which... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 pagina’s
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play 1 " 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... | |
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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... 
