 | Yogendra-Nātha Dāsa Gupta - 1914 - 208 pagina’s
...literature and English social ideals is filled with a strange and unspeakable emotion whenever he thinks of Oxford — "Beautiful City ! so venerable, so lovely,...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene — home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. Yet steeped... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1914 - 326 pagina’s
...her unworthy son,"—add to all the glories of Oxford the new glory of this beautiful tribute: No, we are all seekers still! Seekers often make mistakes, and I wish mine to redound to my discredit only, and not to touch Oxford. Beautiful City! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the... | |
 | 1915 - 416 pagina’s
...too sentimental ; others too high falutin'. But I remember with gratitude Matthew Arnold's words : " Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! ' These are our young barbarians, all at play ! ' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 698 pagina’s
...say to 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!" And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 372 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,...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1919 - 688 pagina’s
...in their torn appreciated the man who could write as he did of that ' beautiful city, so venerable, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene . . . the home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs . . . the Queen of Romance.' During the interval... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 pagina’s
...steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness. Specimen Days, p. 158. MATTHEW ARNOLD 1822-1888 OXFORD BEAUTIFUL city! so venerable, so lovely, 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 whispering... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1920 - 394 pagina’s
...momentum in Church and State, a belated resistance to progress was made by the Tractarians of Oxford. That "beautiful city, so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene," once more became the "home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs."1 The men of Oriel attempted to pour... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 pagina’s
...think Matthew Arnold's best passage is to be found in the Preface to his Essays in Criticism : — " 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 266 pagina’s
...I think Matthew Arnold's best passage is to be found in the Preface to his Essays in Criticism: — "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 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... 
