 | Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 488 pagina’s
...himself- — -from the spell which Oxford must exercise over poetic minds. 'Beautiful city!' he writes;1 'so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce...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... | |
 | 1894 - 500 pagina’s
...Matthew Arnold, the latest of Oxford's great sons, apostrophizes her. "Beautiful city!" he exclaims, "so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . . steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1895 - 506 pagina’s
...though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus : "Beautiful city! so valuable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the trne goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection."... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 pagina’s
...not to give us an image of Oxford ; it is to explain to us the influence of Oxford through the ages. Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...! " There are our young barbarians, all at play 1 " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pagina’s
...philosophy. No, we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes, and I wish mine to redound to 15 my own discredit only, and not to touch Oxford. Beautiful...serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play! " 20 And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading 'her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | 1897 - 564 pagina’s
...has a charm which is all its own — that same charm which influenced Matthew Arnold when he wrote, " Beautiful city, so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!" Oxford is indeed the student's haven and the poet's dream. Amid its palatial collegiate buildings,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 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, and I wish mine to redound to 15 my own discredit only, and not to touch Oxford. Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 pagina’s
...faults loving it still. " Beautiful city ! " he exclaims in the preface to his " Essays on Criticism," " so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce...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... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pagina’s
...CHURCH PARTY IN PARLIAMENT. BY A CONSERVATIVE MP EVERY one remembers Mr. MatthewArnold's description of Oxford : " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely,...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her... | |
 | 1901 - 622 pagina’s
...myself, " is a great fortified post of the Barbarians." OXFORD. (From " Essays in Criticism.") No, we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes,...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... | |
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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... 
