 | Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1879 - 296 pagina’s
...Oxford : " Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties." " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...! ' There are our young barbarians, all at play.' MAGDALEN COLLEGE. 87 •And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 352 pagina’s
...and sweetness conquers, and in this manner long may it continue to conquer ! — Culture and Anarchy. OXFORD. BEAUTIFUL city, — so venerable, so lovely,...serene ! There are our young barbarians, all at play ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall Methuen (bart.) - 1887 - 390 pagina’s
...and lives the fine apostrophe of one of Oxford's most honoured sons, " Beautiful city! so valuable, 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, and whispering... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 570 pagina’s
...of offering it once more for admiration. • No, we are all seekers still ! Seekers often mistake, and I wish mine to redound to my own discredit only,...serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play I " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1890 - 88 pagina’s
...more nobly enshrined than in the close of the Preface to the first series of essays, where he says, " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene. ' There are our young barbarians, all at play I'' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1890 - 90 pagina’s
...more nobly enshrined than in the close of the Preface to the first series of essays, where he says, " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene. ' There are our young barbarians, all at play I ' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - 218 pagina’s
...spirit. One may find all shrines of ancient worship and consult all spirits of ancient wisdom in this beautiful city, "so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!" Well might the poet and scholar who loved her and honored her with his own delicate genius, his own... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 240 pagina’s
...has not yet, so entirely as the reviewer seems to imagine, found the last word of its philosophy. No, we are all seekers still! Seekers often make mistakes,...! " ' There are our young barbarians, all at play ! ' another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen. Adorable dreamer, whose heart... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pagina’s
...Tubingen, as well as by its seriousness and faith in the supreme worth of disinterested culture : " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene! There are our young barbarians, all at play. And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pagina’s
...Tubingen, as well as by its seriousness and faith in the supreme worth of disinterested culture : " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene! There are our young barbarians, all at play. And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from... | |
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Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by 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 her gardens to the moonlight, and... 
