 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 520 pagina’s
...form, in Arnold's New Poems (London: Macmillan, 1867), 112-14.] 12.1 : From "Preface" (xviii-xix): 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... | |
 | 粟野修司 - 1999 - 304 pagina’s
...Christminster. Hardy's hero calls Christminster 'this beautiful city' (p. 12), and for Arnold, Oxford was the 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... | |
 | Robert Crawford - 2001 - 306 pagina’s
...of Ossian, essentially of the romantic and feminized past as it fuses the learned and the barbarous: 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... | |
 | Jan Morris - 2001 - 282 pagina’s
...ways, but only intermittently moribund. 'Beautiful city!' Matthew Arnold could sigh a century ago, 'so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!' It is no such Arcady now, and its University no longer whispers those last enchantments. It is a turmoil,... | |
 | Sir Max Beerbohm - 2002 - 350 pagina’s
...this one largely a play on Matthew Arnold's paean to Oxford the adorable dreamer, the beautiful city "so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene . . . whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age.' Max says the Oxford spirit... | |
 | Birgit Plietzsch - 2004 - 280 pagina’s
...lost causes"82. This is followed by another citation from the same source, this time in Jude's voice: "Beautiful city! So venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection."83... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 2005 - 227 pagina’s
...nor believe how inadequate is the result to represent even the merest outside of Oxford." HAWTHORNE 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... | |
 | John D. Rosenberg - 2005 - 300 pagina’s
...spell. 'Beautiful city!' Arnold apostrophized a quarter of a century after first seeing her spires: 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, and whispering... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2006 - 468 pagina’s
...Christminster as "the home of lost causes/' though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus: "Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! ...Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection/'... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 2007 - 510 pagina’s
...' the home of lost causes,' though Jude did not remember this) was now apostrophizing her thus : ' Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, 94 so serene ! . . . Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the... | |
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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... 
