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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... "
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes - Pagina 289
door William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 351 pagina’s
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The Old Country: A Book of Love and Praise of England

Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 360 pagina’s
...down to Oxford's towers. 210 OXFORD MATTHEW ARNOLD : Preface to " Essays in Criticism" (First Series). BEAUTIFUL city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play ! " And y'et, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...
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Oxford, Painted by John Fulleylove

Edward Thomas - 1922 - 350 pagina’s
...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...
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The Libertarian, Volume 6

1926 - 384 pagina’s
...Philistines! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs! and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! . . . Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene! . . . Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from...
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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy - 1923 - 522 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...
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A History of the University of Oxford, Volume 3

Sir Charles Edward Mallet - 1927 - 604 pagina’s
...analysis and style. The Essays in Criticism of 1865 contained the richly-wrought apostrophe to the " beautiful city, so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life " of the time. And in their writer the habit of reflection deepened, till it controlled and probably weakened...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pagina’s
...will be greater than their writings ; stat magni nominis umbra. Essays in Criticism 462 Oxford NO, we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes,...serene ! '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 from...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pagina’s
...will be greater than their writings ; stat magni nominis umbra. Essays in Criticism 462 Oxford NO, we are all seekers still ! seekers often make mistakes,...century, so serene ! 'There are our young barbarians ail at play!' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and...
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The Criers of the Shops

Sherlock Bronson Gass - 1925 - 384 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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 247

1926 - 470 pagina’s
...Cambridge life. His love for the university was passionate, and his finest piece of prose is a defence of Oxford. ' Beautiful city ! So venerable, so lovely,...! ' " 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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William Morris

Holbrook Jackson - 1926 - 172 pagina’s
...was during these three years that the curve of his future life was determined. Oxford, of all cities, 'so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century,' was the one most likely to develop such a character as his. Oxford still 'whispering from her towers...
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