 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1907 - 526 pagina’s
...the scholastic era and the revival of learning. The Oxford of his day was still the " beautiful city, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age." "Then flash'da yellow gleam across the world." Few, if any, in our western islands thought to themselves,... | |
 | James Hutchins Baker - 1907 - 240 pagina’s
...foster sentiment rather than learning. Evidently he believed what Matthew Arnold expressed of Oxford: "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... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1908 - 464 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... | |
 | 1908 - 554 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...will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word,... | |
 | John M. Dillon - 1908 - 456 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...who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, ever keeps calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty,... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1932 - 436 pagina’s
...the scholastic era and the revival of learning. The Oxford of his day was still the " beautiful city, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age." " Then flash'da yellow gleam across the world." Few, if any, in our western islands thought to themselves,... | |
 | Randall Jarrell - 1986 - 292 pagina’s
...life of our century, so serene! 'There are our junge Madchen all at playT And yet, steeped in truths as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the first enchantments of the Future Age, who will deny that Benton, by her ineffable charm, keeps calling... | |
 | Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - 1988 - 422 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...all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, - to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?109 ""• Brooke 1985. chap. 12. esp. pp. 223.... | |
 | Richard Briscoe Cook - 1898 - 620 pagina’s
...! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, or whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by... | |
 | Jaroslav Pelikan - 1992 - 252 pagina’s
...Sainte-Beuve as "one of the four persons . . . from whom he had really learned"), spoke about how Oxford — "steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age" and the "home of lost causes, and... | |
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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... 
