 | Thomas Hardy - 1923 - 493 pagina’s
...ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection.' ' - '^^' 'Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so Another voice was that of the Corn Law convert, whose phantom he had just seen in the quadrangle with... | |
 | Sherlock Bronson Gass - 1925 - 364 pagina’s
...in the noblest expressions of it they do. One recalls — extreme example — Arnold's apostrophe to 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... | |
 | 1916
...in the noblest expressions of it they do. One recalls — extreme example — Arnold's apostrophe to 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1962 - 578 pagina’s
...not yet, 35 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!" 5 And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering... | |
 | Randall Jarrell - 1986 - 277 pagina’s
...lost causes. But it went on to say that the causes were not lost: "No, we are all seekers still! yet seekers often make mistakes, and I wish mine to redound to my own discredit only, and not to touch Benton. [She paused.] Beautiful spot! so young, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual... | |
 | Richard Briscoe Cook - 1898 - 586 pagina’s
...doublefirst-class. Of the city of Oxford, where Oxford University is situated, Matthew Arnold writes : " Beautiful city ! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, or whispering... | |
 | John W. Gardner, John William Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 247 pagina’s
...war with another when it knew it would have to win by simply wearing out the enemy. Orville Wright, Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages. . . . Home of lost causes,... | |
 | Inga Bryden - 1998 - 416 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... | |
 | Associate Professor of English John Dougill, John Dougill - 1998 - 363 pagina’s
...'philistine' as an uncultured person had been appropriated from the German by Carlyle earlier in the century.) Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...intellectual life of our century, so serene! 'There are our voting barbarians, all at play!' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to... | |
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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... 
