| 单词 | Matthew Arnold |
| 例句 | “Well, Frank Buckland was Matthew Arnold’s father’s sister’s husband’s brother’s son, therefore, they were almost kin. See?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In “Matthew Arnold’s Field,” the singer scatters his father’s ashes in a favorite place, sensing the silence “as I tried to say goodbye.” Ben Watt, Mournful but Optimistic, at Joe’s Pub 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Here we are subjected to game theory for dummies, Kabbalah for dummies, Matthew Arnold for dummies – none of them integrated in the texture of the novel. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Matthew Arnold found the author to be “humane, simple, modest; from all restless self-consciousness and desire for display perfectly free.” The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Bakewell also confesses “a soft spot” for the early 20th-century Oxford philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell and for the Victorian literary critic Matthew Arnold, hardly fashionable figures these days. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Matthew Arnold told the sceptical Victorians to read the Bible for its poetry; Frey, however, is lumpenly prosaic, unable to conceive of or communicate rapture. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z Perhaps Matthew Arnold was wrong in thinking that the highest legacy of Athens is true thought and that of Jerusalem right action. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z Matthew Arnold's notion of an "unplumbed, salt, estranging sea" between all mortal minds is not a popular one at the moment. Ghost Light 2010-06-18T23:05:00Z Matthew Arnold maintained that “the uppermost idea with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.” The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z Witnessing this event inspired in poet and educational reformer Matthew Arnold a visceral revulsion that Andrew Sullivan would find familiar. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z In the High Street, St. Mary the Virgin, parish church of the University, provides a hawk’s-eye view from its 13th-century tower with all those “dreaming spires” Matthew Arnold gushed over in the 1860s. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Before long, MTV came calling, and today they have a new TV show, “The Buried Life” — the name comes from a Matthew Arnold poem—that airs Monday nights at 10 p.m. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z Of course Mr Belloc and Mr Chesterton are serious persons, and their fun is at bottom, as Matthew Arnold might say, a criticism of life. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z Any page might offer a bastardized phrase from Genesis, Shakespeare and Matthew Arnold, while criticizing Christianity, condemning American capitalism and warning of the climate apocalypse. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The series was originally conceived as a modern and dark reimagining of the classic L. Frank Baum Oz tale, only with a Game of Thrones-ian vibe from writers Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman. NBC Revives 'Wizard of Oz'-Themed Series 'Emerald City' 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He spent part of the time reading Lionel Trilling’s biography of Matthew Arnold. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z Mr. Nolen sang with greater conviction in Barber’s “Dover Beach,” which concluded the program, expressively rendering the text by Matthew Arnold. Music Review: A Violinist and Novelist, and, Yes, Composer 2011-02-04T22:32:02Z It’s why we’ve been yammering on about the essential contribution of our insights at least since Matthew Arnold published “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” in 1865. Perspective | Goodreads Choice Awards: An annual reminder that critics and readers don’t often agree 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” and “The Rubaiyat” are among the movie’s literary references. How ‘Pandora and the Flying Dutchman’ Still Casts a Spell 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Matthew Arnold held disinterestedness, with curiosity, to be the properties with which the critic would save culture, by which he meant much more than just literature. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals” sounds earnest, high-minded and dull, probably a worthy academic study revisiting territory mapped out long ago by Matthew Arnold and Lionel Trilling. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Two constables - Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29 - were hit immediately, then reportedly shot again, execution style. Wieambilla shooting: Australia police ambush deemed religious terror attack 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Two constables - Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29 - were hit immediately. Wieambilla: Grief and questions after deadly shoot-out shocks Australia 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Two officers from the Tara Police Service — Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29 — were shot and died at the scene. Australia in shock as deadly shootout in rural town kills police officers 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Constable Matthew Arnold, 26; Constable Rachel McCrow, 29; and Alan Dare, 58, who lived near the property, were killed in the gunfire on Monday, officials say. Australia mourns police officers, civilian killed in gunfight 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Constables Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, were shot dead as they approached. Wieambilla: Six dead in shooting at remote Australian property 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Officers Matthew Arnold, 26, and Rachel McCrow, 29, were hit and fell to the ground, where they were shot and killed by three people on the property, he said in a statement. 2 Officers and Bystander Are Killed in Australia Shootout 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But since adolescence, I’ve wanted to experience as many books as possible, to familiarize myself with, as Matthew Arnold’s catchphrase goes, the best that has been thought and said. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It is with a heavy heart we confirm the deaths of Constable Matthew Arnold and Constable Rachel McCrow. Australia in shock as deadly shootout in rural town kills police officers 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z She talks of days when she “relied” on Matthew Arnold and W.H. Appreciation: Joan Didion’s indelible study of grief gave me the tools to save myself 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z “Or sometimes not,” said brother Matthew Arnold, 36, a mover who lives outside Austin. Wasn’t Texas supposed to turn blue? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z “Unconscionable impatience. What Matthew Arnold spoke about: our sick hurry, our divided aims. Now, this sick hurry is terrible. And Fred stands against that vagary beautifully.” What if the Great American Novelist Doesn’t Write Novels? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold - long before I went to school I was fortunate enough to have their voices in my head. 'My mother saw the coast was clear and made a dash for it' 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The nineteenth-century poet Matthew Arnold wrote: “Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry”. How the elite lost control of art 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Indeed, as the poet Matthew Arnold once observed, ignorant armies clash at night. Democracy has a problem with science 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Matthew Arnold’s prediction, made in 1876, that “the immense vibration of George Sand’s voice upon the ear of Europe will not soon die away” proved untimely. George Sand’s unfinished legacy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She talked like Matthew Arnold about things like Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures,” a film that was closed down by the police. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z Diana raked through every line of his first book, on Matthew Arnold, chastening each awkward phrase and disciplining Lionel’s clauses and rhythms. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z The original critics of PC were academics or shadow-academics, Ivy League graduates who went around in bow ties quoting Plato and Matthew Arnold. Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy | Moira Weigel 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Primitive Culture was, in some respects, a quarrel with another book that had “culture” in the title: Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, a collection that had appeared just two years earlier. There is no such thing as western civilisation | Kwame Anthony Appiah 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "We've seen that there's a lot of tension on the national level. There’s various forms of tensions here in North Carolina," political activist Matthew Arnold told WRAL.com. North Carolina Republicans say undaunted by arson, message of 'leave town or else' 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Criticism sets a standard that artists can strive for or resist, he says, echoing an old defense by the poet-critic Matthew Arnold. Critics in the Age of Opinion 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Matthew Arnold saw Goethe as a kind of healer and liberator, calling him the “physician of the Iron Age,” who “read each wound, each weakness” of the “suffering human race.” Life Lessons from Goethe 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z It is hard to imagine Trump quoting Plato or Matthew Arnold, much less carping about the titles of conference papers by literature academics. Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy | Moira Weigel 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold, traced it back to ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and called it "the eternal note of sadness." The Trouble With Ending Wars 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Mark Weston, a partner at law firm Matthew Arnold & Baldwin, told the BBC that an employer "would not be allowed to track an employee without the consent of that employee". Staff-tracking app faces legal scrutiny in US - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z We are almost 150 years on from the moment in 1867 when Matthew Arnold heard the sea of faith's "melancholy, long, withdrawing roar" on Dover Beach. The phantom menace of militant atheism 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z The poet Matthew Arnold once called it “the eternal note of sadness,” but it sounded all right to me. My Life in Bicycles 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The poet Matthew Arnold once declared that “it is of advantage to a poet to deal with a beautiful world.” Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer In September it will open its first free school, the Matthew Arnold Prep School in Northampton. Wealthy Tory donor David Ross in line for top Ofsted job 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Interviewed in his office afterwards, Mr Brown allowed himself to veer further off-base, citing Wittgenstein, Matthew Arnold and Buddhism as he explained his governing philosophy. California’s economy: Bark if you don’t like deficits 2014-01-23T15:59:50Z Many legends are told of his magic arts, one of which, it will be remembered, Matthew Arnold makes an occasion of some fine reflections in his poem Empedocles in Etna. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z The essays on Heine by George Eliot and Matthew Arnold are well known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z And yet this last definition is no less informing and adequate than the far-famed formula of Matthew Arnold, which I forbear to repeat. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z Selections, with Critical Introduction by various writers, and a general Introduction by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan & Co.'s Catalogue. April 1888 Works in Belles Lettres, including Poetry, Fiction, etc. 2012-04-18T02:00:18.217Z While Tennyson and Matthew Arnold were writing in England, the earlier tradition had not entirely died out in America that the first proof of genius is an abandonment of one's mind to temperament and "inspiration." Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z No more as lovers, but as profound admirers of her intellect, great men still flocked about her—Matthew Arnold, Flaubert, Feuillet, and a host of others. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z When Matthew Arnold met the pale-faced preacher in the slums of Bethnal Green, and asked him how he did-- One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z Matthew Arnold says: “We too would say 'God' if the moment we said 'God, you would not pretend that you know all about him.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Provinciality was the pet bugbear of Matthew Arnold, but he applied it as a scornful term only to literary and critical shortcomings. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Listen to another of his outbursts, this time against Matthew Arnold: "His inveterate and invincible Philistinism, his full community of spirit and faith, in certain things of import, with the vulgarest English mind!" Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z "In spite of Matthew Arnold and men of his school, the world still believes in the miracles of our Lord; why, then, should miracles happen in Palestine and not in France?" The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Matthew Arnold has painted it all in one verse of those lines, entitled Obermann once more, in which he so perfectly expresses the better spirit of modern scepticism. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z Among modern essayists, Emerson, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold stand preëminent, and they are already well established among the mightiest teachers of our age, and it may be, of many to come. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z The cardinal qualities of the style of Homer have been pointed out once for all by Matthew Arnold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Like the Empedocles of Matthew Arnold, baffled in the ineffable longing to escape themselves, these bearers of the divine light are haled unwillingly Back to this meadow of calamity, This uncongenial place, this human life. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z "And who is Matthew Arnold, or any other man, to say that what we called miracles don't happen?" urged Mr. Bennett, the clergyman, warmly. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Of that mystic crew Matthew Arnold could have repeated his famous "What a set!" which he despairingly uttered about the Shelley-Godwin gatherings. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It is as if Matthew Arnold had called himself "Matthew Sweetness and Light." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Yet on the evidence of this passage and a sonnet of Matthew Arnold's, English readers pass a swift judgment on "the stern Tertullian" and his "unpitying Phrygian sect." The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z As Matthew Arnold put it, "The future of poetry is immense." Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z The chief modern type of Stoicism, however, is Matthew Arnold. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z We constantly read of Fritillaries in the river fields sung of Matthew Arnold. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The late Mr Matthew Arnold recognized as a graceful and original act of public service, the transport of Cleopatra’s Needle from Alexandria to London at the cost of Sir Erasmus Wilson. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Though he is a Greek and a pagan, he stretches hands across the centuries to men of the type of Morris or Matthew Arnold. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z I am well aware that good literature—to use Matthew Arnold's phrase—is a criticism of life. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Closet tragedy in the plays of Browning, Sir Henry Taylor, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, and others, was largely the outcome of the theatrical and literary conditions which we have been tracing. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z He certainly does not know the flowers of woods and fields as does Matthew Arnold. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z It would have been premature to anticipate the later advice of Mr Matthew Arnold to organize the stage. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Cleon would fain believe in personal immortality but cannot, and, like Matthew Arnold, believes in facing death imperturbably. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Matthew Arnold has thus surprisingly summed up Francis' age and his work. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Neither high seriousness, nor sublime theme, nor a complete philosophy is a necessary accompaniment of Matthew Arnold's definition. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z We owe a rendering of “The Deceived Merman” to both George Borrow and Matthew Arnold, but how widely different the treatment! The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Matthew Arnold complete a representative list of educators of popular taste during our age. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Boston is all alive with Irving's acting, Matthew Arnold's lectures, Cable's readings, and the coming opera. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It was Matthew Arnold, we believe, who first held up the poor man of Assisi as a literary type—a type as distinct and formal as the author of the Divine Comedy. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z Matthew Arnold on one occasion laid down the principle, that a book should either "edify the uninstructed," or "inform the instructed." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z He makes no mention of Carlyle or Ruskin or Matthew Arnold, and they in their turn, it may be added, make no mention of him or of his works. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z The church she attends lies rather more than two miles away towards Laleham, which place Arnold left with so much regret, and where Matthew Arnold is buried. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Parthasaradi had a marvellous store of quotations from Tyndall, Leibnitz, Matthew Arnold, and others at his fingers’ ends. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z We give the Canticle of the Sun in the exquisite version of Matthew Arnold. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z Matthew Arnold's idea, that it is our duty to make the best ideas prevail, may seem priggish and dictatorial, yet fundamentally James had the same idea. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Arthur Sedgwick has sent me Matthew Arnold's photograph, which Harry had pronounced so disappointing. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z Matthew Arnold and Clough and Kingsley also attracted us greatly in their several ways, and of course Shelley and Keats, but Tennyson was beyond a doubt our chief luminary. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Matthew Arnold, denying the power of "breathless glades, cheer'd by shy Dian's horn" to calm the spectator of The Bottle, showed more than his ignorance of Diana and her peace. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, began the serious profession of being a Grecian. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z It must be pleasant to meditate on the great men of letters and from time to time write an essay on Virgil or Montaigne or Matthew Arnold. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Lord Granville, as Matthew Arnold says, had studied in the book of the world rather than in the world of books. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Since Matthew Arnold’s lectures on Homer, a new translation has appeared annually in that country. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z For Matthew Arnold gave the true definition of greatness when he said it was the obstacles overcome, not his attainments, that made a man great. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Swinburne expresses his Hellenic longings by his hymeneal strains, Matthew Arnold by sweetness and light, Gilbert Murray by sweetness and pathos—and all through the divine right of Victorian expansion. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z As in these, so in the Matthew Arnold drawings, he shows some genuine creative power and an aptitude for illustrative decoration. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z Please write that censure is not anger, and tell me what you are all doing, what the prospects are, how much social trouble you take, and whether you liked Matthew Arnold and his airs.... Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Matthew Arnold’s essay on Gray in Ward’s English Poets is one of the minor classics of literary criticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Matthew Arnold has said that "Conduct is three-fourths of life"; but I, for my part, have never been able to see where he got his figures. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Murray represents popular scholarship to a degree which would have shocked Matthew Arnold, just as Arnold himself would have been poison to Nauck—Nauck the author of the text of Euripides. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z Mr. Ospovat's illustrations to 'Shakespeare's Sonnets' and to 'Matthew Arnold's Poems' are interesting, if not very markedly his own. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z Dr. Farrar's citation of Matthew Arnold is open to the same kind of criticism. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z It went on and on, the audience growing restless, with Matthew Arnold himself an object of pity, so obvious was his embarrassment. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Matthew Arnold spent his life fighting the Philistines; but when he said that conduct was three-fourths of life, there was jubilation in the enemy's camp. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z How aptly has Matthew Arnold said, “O man, how true are thine instincts, how overhasty thine interpretation of them!” The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Matthew Arnold has given a symbolism to the story of her death in the sonnet beginning: "That son of Italy who tried to blow 'Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song." Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Matthew Arnold, for example, declared this an instance in which Franklin was lacking in his “imperturbable common sense”; and J. B. McMaster, though devoting several pages to its discussion, very ingenuously declares it “beneath criticism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Few lecturers could have saved the situation, and Matthew Arnold would have been a dull one under the most favourable circumstances. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z To paraphrase the lines of Matthew Arnold: "Far hence he lies, Near some lone Chinese town, And on his grave, with shining eyes, The Eastern stars look down." Gentlemen Rovers 2011-10-22T02:00:27.907Z The latter, as Matthew Arnold and other reverent christians remark, was sometimes unamiable. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Birds, says Matthew Arnold, live beside us, but unknown, and try how we will we can find no passages from our souls to theirs. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z It is constantly complained that we Americans give too much time to politics, but there could be no safer way of utilizing that extra drop of vital fluid which Matthew Arnold found in us. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Matthew Arnold, the latest distinguished visitor, was to lecture, and I had been looking forward to the evening with an ardour for which alas! Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Perhaps Matthew Arnold's definition of religion as "morality touched with emotion" comes as near expressing Dr. Frothingham's conception as any. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z She aims to be a spiritual person and she reads many essays—by Emerson, Matthew Arnold, Pater, and others. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Doesn’t Matthew Arnold say that somewhere—or is it Swinburne or Pater? Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z It is true, no doubt, that miracles did not enter into the experience of David Hume and Matthew Arnold; but this does not prove that they have never entered into the experience of anybody else. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Among them, Matthew Arnold held particularly high rank, one of the chief heroes of my worship, and many of my contemporaries worshipped with me. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Mr. Matthew Arnold, by his well-known essay and poem, has done much to stimulate English interest in Heine. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z And if you have a chance, praise Shelley and knock Matthew Arnold. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Examples of this way of reading may be found in the works of Ruskin and in Matthew Arnold. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z A century later, Matthew Arnold disposed of the question in an even shorter manner. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Said Matthew Arnold again: “Reading a good book is a discipline such as no reading of even good newspapers can ever give.” Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z My system of criticism is naturally uncongenial to Mr. Matthew Arnold, but while he says so with characteristic vigour, he likewise speaks of this work with equally characteristic generosity, and I cordially thank him. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z In studying history I also see the upward tendency of the race, and note that current which Mr. Matthew Arnold has called "that stream of tendency, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness." My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z He could not have hated Matthew Arnold on that score, at all events, though perhaps he might have found some other ground for gratifying a feeling very dear to his heart. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Matthew Arnold was swift to find the joints in his opponent's armor; but there is hardly one of his essays in criticism which had not its exciting cause in his admiration for its subject. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Matthew Arnold, in his splendid sonnet on Austerity as the poet must practice it, has brought this out very forcibly. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z The imagination of the Kelt, said Matthew Arnold, "with its passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact" has never succeeded in producing a masterpiece of art. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z Of course to such a mind Matthew Arnold is a "colossal humbug"—and worse. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Matthew Arnold, in his essay on The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, gave an answer to this question. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Thus when Matthew Arnold wrote about Tolsto�, he told us that Anna Kar�nina "throws herself under the wheels of a goods train." Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Did Matthew Arnold dream of such a cavern when he wrote: “When the sea snakes coil and turn, Dry their mail, and bask in the brine”? Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z It was said by Matthew Arnold that the Latin people never cared enough for Christianity to reform it; they never thought it worth while, it is true, to break with the Church to find Christianity. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The same thing was true of Matthew Arnold, who, I remember, made himself a most agreeable guest at a reception the Authors Club gave him in the days of its extreme poverty. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z It has been discussed by the leading poets of three generations or semi-generations; by Matthew Arnold, by Mr. Swinburne, and, much more fully, by Mr. Bridges. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Yet the Times is not without orthographic eccentricities of its own, as Matthew Arnold took occasion to point out. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Matthew Arnold professes to have discovered in the Old Bible "the Eternal, not ourselves, making for Righteousness," one of his proofs being Ps. How the Bible was Invented A Lecture Delivered Before the Independent Religious Society 2011-07-07T02:00:31.270Z The English drama, Matthew Arnold had written, lay between the heavens and the earth—it was neither realistic nor idealistic, but just “fantastic.” The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Matthew Arnold attributed to Homer three great epic traits, swiftness, simplicity, and nobility. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z Some verses of his own best describe him, and some verses of Matthew Arnold his influence on his readers. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The tomahawk and the scalping-knife are not the critical apparatus, and they are not to be found in the armory of Lessing and of Sainte-Beuve, of Matthew Arnold and of James Russell Lowell. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z We human beings are "infinitely repellent particles," to use the phrase, of Matthew Arnold. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Matthew Arnold congratulated Mr. Jones ten years ago on having given it, in his admirable picture of these two deacons, one of the hardest blows it had yet received. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z He held with Matthew Arnold that conduct was three-fourths of life, whereas culture might or might not claim the odd quarter. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z I now understand why it is that Mr. Matthew Arnold thinks the average Briton so very terrible. A Canterbury Pilgrimage 2011-06-13T02:00:24.520Z Consider how Sainte-Beuve and Matthew Arnold and Lowell have sung the praises of those whose poems delighted them. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Matthew Arnold's death and the loss of the English passenger vessel in Australian waters, referred to, do not occur within five years of each other. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Mr. Archer took up Matthew Arnold’s idea, and carried it a step further. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z They represent, indeed, the admirably sound and manly elements which were a part of him: they show us the veins of what Matthew Arnold calls flint and iron in his nature uppermost. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Matthew Arnold, it is said, ceased to write verse because he could not afford it. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z He ridicules critics such as Matthew Arnold, who held that the ‘Analogy’ is dead, with the eighteenth-century Deism it opposed. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z A thousand thanks, and believe me, always sincerely yours, Matthew Arnold. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z —Preface to "Poems of Wordsworth," chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Matthew Arnold, who has said some memorably fine and just things about Keats, belittles the poetry of Shelley and even paradoxically prefers the prose of his essays and letters to his verse. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It was a maxim of Matthew Arnold’s that the main effort of the mind of Europe in our time was a critical one. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The wise reader familiar with Mr. Matthew Arnold will see how exactly the latter caught from his French master the trick of method here displayed: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I only hope poor O'Conor may not take advantage of the occasion to plant an ode and a letter.—Ever sincerely yours, Matthew Arnold. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Nor shall I ever forget the major's delightful characterization of the platform work of Matthew Arnold. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z Matthew Arnold may not be quite fair when he says that it is mere preaching, that Burns was not sincere, and that we find the real Burns in “The Jolly Beggars.” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The greatest of these new writers is Matthew Arnold, and his thought is so eminently representative of the generation that it may be well to consider him even before his seniors. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Mr. Matthew Arnold, on the other hand, lost no opportunity to flout with indignity the claims of Victor Hugo to his supreme literary godship. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Her father, Thomas Arnold, second son of Dr. Arnold of Rugby and brother of Matthew Arnold, was at that time Inspector of Schools in the far-away island. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z "The tips at the Asolando all go to the Sweetness and Light Club, which is just now engaged in circulating Matthew Arnold's poems in leaflet form in the jobbing district." The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z For Matthew Arnold, Shelley, Tennyson, Wordsworth, he has done, we think, what Milton did for "Lycidas," and it is impossible to believe that such cool and spacious writing can ever be superseded. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Matthew Arnold was educated at Winchester and Rugby. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There is a class of English writers to whom the descriptive term essayist is applied, the most illustrious being Addison, Steele, Charles Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Matthew Arnold, R. L. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The line of action which Matthew Arnold vainly and pathetically urged on the Anglo-Saxon world has been unobtrusively but most effectively taken by France for now more than half a century. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z But this is not the Franklin of "imperturbable common-sense" honored by Matthew Arnold as "the very incarnation of sanity and clear-sense, a man the most considerable ... whom America has yet produced." Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Mr. Matthew Arnold, in his delicate essay, blames the age for this; he puts Gray's reticence down to a want of literary sympathy and intellectual stimulus. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The prose writings of Matthew Arnold may be classed under three heads. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Matthew Arnold’s dictum, then, that Shelley was not sane is a gross exaggeration. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Matthew Arnold has, in current phrase, “boiled down” Wordsworth, in order to make him more palatable to general consumption; and he gives excellent reasons for having done so. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Clough, whose loss he lamented in one of the finest pastoral elegies of all ages, Matthew Arnold takes rank with Tennyson, Browning and Swinburne alone Arnold. among the Dii Majores of Victorian poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It was charming of Matthew Arnold to let Sweet-Williams have such a nice line, but I don't think they quite deserve it. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Carlyle, Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thackeray and George Eliot, all in various ways teach that art must not ignore the intellectual problem. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z No one to-day thinks of employing Matthew Arnold's touchstone theory of poetry whereby we are to have a few metrical lines of some great poets to apply as a test as to what is poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Matthew Arnold, always a high authority on Wordsworth, has said: But Wordsworth’s eyes avert their ken From half of human fate. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z The famous �glise de Brou, which Matthew Arnold described so justly and fully in his verses, is a florid Gothic monument which ranks among the most celebrated in France. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Matthew Arnold, with all his scholarship and culture, never succeeded in doing this, even in such fine work as A Strayed Reveler or Empedocles on Etna. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z ‘I do not think,’ says Matthew Arnold in his Letters, ‘that any poet of our day can make much of his business unless he is intellectual.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z You will find examples of it in Blake, Emerson, Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z They were men of the world, and did not, as Matthew Arnold said of Wordsworth, “avert their gaze from half of human fate.” The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z He had come to his rôle from holding the kind of position that Matthew Arnold once had held. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Recommends translations of classic and modern foreign authors, 85.Epictetus, the Greek stoic, 37.Empedocles on Etna, one of Matthew Arnold's finest poems, 32.Euripides, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Matthew Arnold wrote a poem on the church of Brou which may convey the wonder of its beauty. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Matthew Arnold, you know—‘conduct three-fourths of life.’ The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z Of Matthew Arnold himself, as a poet, I am able to speak; for though he was not long ago one’s contemporary, he is no longer one of ourselves. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z On purely educational grounds, which need not be here re-capitulated, it was at once viewed with misgiving by many authorities, including Matthew Arnold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Reveler, A, one of Matthew Arnold's finest lyrical poems, 32.Stanley, Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z About the time of Matthew Arnold’s ‘Friendship’s Garland,’ and since that time there’s been nothing like a systematic stocktaking of the English-speaking mind—until the Encyclopædist reported ‘no effects.’ Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Mr. McKinstry, on the other hand, had almost as much devotion to “Kam” as Matthew Arnold had to Culture, and meant very nearly the same thing by it. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Here's a copy of Matthew Arnold for you to take home as a token, though there's only one thing in it for us, and you won't care for that until you are forty. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z A sketch of Bourg would not be complete without a reference to the noble poem of Matthew Arnold. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Frankenstein author Mary Shelley lived at number 24, while poet and critic Matthew Arnold lived at number 2. Britain's most expensive address feels the pinch as house prices tumble 2010-11-19T19:13:00Z I left him, wondering if Matthew Arnold hadn’t done as much harm as good in the world. The Idyl of Twin Fires In regard to Matthew Arnold, it would be a bold critic of his life and his writings who should attempt to say what his work would have been if his training had been different. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" The Persian rendering of it in the tale of Sohrab and Rustum has been made familiar by Matthew Arnold's fine poem. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race “When I survey the wondrous cross” has been named by Matthew Arnold as the finest hymn in the English language, and most critics concur in the judgment. The Story of Our Hymns Selections, with Critical Introductions by various writers, and a General Introduction by Matthew Arnold. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. Matthew Arnold had said she did not need June for beauty's heightening. Sinister Street, vol. 2 After a year at Winchester, Matthew Arnold entered Rugby school in 1837. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" As to what other claims it may have, many pages might be filled with quotations from the discerning praises given to it by critics not of Celtic nationality, from Matthew Arnold downwards. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race During this period he began to enjoy Wordsworth, to whom he came by way of Matthew Arnold, like a wayfarer who crosses green fields and finds that mountains are faint upon the horizon. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Matthew Arnold quoted that afterwards, and I was glad I had said it. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 The game of football itself seems to be the end, and "not a means to an end," as, I believe, Mr. Matthew Arnold has remarked. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced Much has been said about what is called the “Greek temper” of Matthew Arnold’s muse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" To take, as an illustration of one method, a lesser poet, read carefully and thoughtfully Matthew Arnold's introduction to his edition of the selected poems of Wordsworth. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses Someone entered and created consternation by announcing that a cablegram had just reached New York with the news that Matthew Arnold was dead. Rambles in Womanland The two heralds of the treasure we have inherited in this Celtic literature of the past were Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "Salvation by righteousness—this is the message of the Old Testament," Matthew Arnold used to say. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Mr George Meredith’s “Old Chartist” exhibits far more of the temper of acceptance than does any poem by Matthew Arnold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" On no other subject is the wide reading that Matthew Arnold enjoins so necessary. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses I shall never forget the dry way and pitiful manner in which Robert Louis Stevenson passed a funeral oration on Matthew Arnold. Rambles in Womanland Unfolded with a lucidity which ought to satisfy even Mr. Matthew Arnold. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II Read especially the famous passage from the preface to Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, concerning Oxford. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Ballads are short; a long ballad, as Mr. Matthew Arnold has said, creeps and halts. Custom and Myth New Edition But it is apparent to any one reading these tales that the writers or compilers, as Matthew Arnold has suggested, are “pillaging an antiquity, the secret of which they do not fully possess.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Matthew Arnold's "Isaiah of Jerusalem" may be read in this connection. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Matthew Arnold's Forsaken Merman, if you let the anthropologists get hold of it, will be shown to be but the exquisite echo of some forgotten marriage of the sea. The Book of This and That The mannerisms and grotesque exaggerations of his writings annoyed persons of refinement, and suggest Matthew Arnold’s advice to flee “Carlylese” as you would flee the devil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" In the evenings he received frequent invitations to the drawing-room, where he would talk about Florence and Botticelli, Oxford and Matthew Arnold. Years of Plenty As however M. Scherer, thanks chiefly to the late Mr. Matthew Arnold, enjoys some repute in England, I may give an example of his censure. A Short History of French Literature Notice what famous men have said of this book: Matthew Arnold declared it "less a work of art than a piece of life." The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Has not the reputation of Matthew Arnold already sunk lower than that of the reviewers in the daily papers? The Book of This and That Herein lies the great difference between Russian and Western critics, between Sainte-Beuve and Belinsky; between Matthew Arnold and his Russian contemporaries. An Outline of Russian Literature Ma B. hasn't got further than Matthew Arnold and I don't suppose either of them ever heard of a chap called Wilde. Years of Plenty Matthew Arnold, in The Study of Celtic Literature, has accepted this passion for nature, this imaginativeness, this melancholy, as Celtic characteristics, but has described them more elaborately. Ideas of Good and Evil Reference should be made to the fact that Matthew Arnold said that Paul stood among the seven greatest literary men of history. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. In this direction lies Chapelizod, said to take its name from that Iseult whom Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Wagner made a heroine; beyond which is Lucan connected with the city by tramway. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Thus, what Matthew Arnold said about Byron and Wordsworth is true about Lermontov—there are moments when Nature takes the pen from his hand and writes for him. An Outline of Russian Literature Hence comes the truth of Matthew Arnold's striking summary of Israel's Law and Prophets in his “Literature and Dogma,” as “The Power, not ourselves, that maketh for righteousness.” Jewish Theology Matthew Arnold asks how much of the Celt must one imagine in the ideal man of genius. Ideas of Good and Evil It's one of a series of illustrations for Matthew Arnold's poem, 'The Forsaken Merman'. The Head Girl at the Gables In the consideration of Art Mr. Hamerton is as fair, serious, and exact as is Matthew Arnold in his "Essays in Criticism," and, like him, faithfully represents the modern spirit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 It is plain that such names as those of Aristotle, Dante, Dryden, Joshua Reynolds, Sainte-Beuve and Matthew Arnold are not to be thus swept by a reckless fulmination. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" American essayists are left for another day; as are those English writers, like Sir William Temple and Bolingbroke, Macaulay and Matthew Arnold, who have given us the essay in literary full dress. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time As Matthew Arnold observed, they are "excessively, needlessly rough," but their free, garrulous effect has a charm of its own. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Of living Englishmen, it seems to us that Matthew Arnold combines in the highest degree great wealth of literary culture with the deepest thoughtfulness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 "Alas, madame," says Brandolin, with a little sigh, "perhaps I have only been what Matthew Arnold calls a 'foiled circuitous wanderer' in the orbit of life!" A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June A friend once reported to me a saying of Matthew Arnold’s, that he did not believe in any man of intelligence taking a desperate view of the social problem in England. Songs of the Army of the Night The first consideration is one which was offered to me many years ago by Mr. Matthew Arnold, and which I can give, though from memory, very nearly in his own words. The Intellectual Life In the following specimen, from Matthew Arnold, the structure is similar. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But as his new feathers began to come in folks got on to him, as Matthew Arnold has it, and the other roosters began to brighten up and also blow up their biceps muscles. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories To this capricious and indefensible theory, and to the translation, so far as founded upon it, Mr. Matthew Arnold seems to have given the coup de grace. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 They would instantly dub Henley “the Father of Wooden Legs”; me they would denominate the “Father of Bones,” and Matthew Arnold “the Father of Eyeglasses.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) On some verses of Goethe—Man not constituted like a planet—Matthew Arnold’s poem, “Self-dependence”—Poetry and prose—The wind more imitable than the stars—The stone in Glen Croe—Rest and be thankful. The Intellectual Life Nevertheless, he is rightly regarded, like his friend Matthew Arnold, as one of the most typical English poets of the middle of the 19th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" The next year that produced a poet almost if not quite great, though one of odd lapses and limitations, was 1822, the birth-year of Matthew Arnold. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) His literary judgments had less of a creative quality, if the expression be permissible, than Matthew Arnold’s, but are not otherwise inferior to those of that brilliant though sometimes slightly prejudiced critic. Studies in Contemporary Biography If Matthew Arnold had only been born into some other family! The Crow's Nest Talking with Matthew Arnold in 1871, he laughingly remarked to me 'I cannot understand why you scientific people make such a fuss about Darwin. The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science Because—in Matthew Arnold's line—"the aids to noble life are all within." The Philosophy of Spinoza I have said that it is now as a whole universally recognised, and I cannot but think that Mr. Matthew Arnold was wrong when he gave a contrary opinion some fifteen years ago. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) As to selecting the letters one remembers Mr. Matthew Arnold's very agreeable confession, when he was asked to select his poems, that he wanted to select them all. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing As a preparation I read up Matthew Arnold. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’ By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Goethe, Matthew Arnold, Heine, George Eliot, Flaubert, Coleridge, and Shelley—to mention only a few distinguished lay names—found in Spinoza a powerful, stimulating and, in varying degrees, congenial thinker. The Philosophy of Spinoza Sir Edwin Arnold he rated above Matthew Arnold for the same reason. Ivory Apes and Peacocks I gradually submitted to the dominion of Keats, Browning, and Matthew Arnold. Memoirs of Life and Literature There had been that day a memorial meeting for Matthew Arnold, to which Browning had been, and he spoke with reminiscent sadness of Arnold’s life. The Brownings Their Life and Art Yet to Mr. Matthew Arnold, who led him to these pastures, he still bears a grudge. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 As for style, it may be said that his work fulfils Matthew Arnold's definition of that desirable quality, "To have something to say and to say it in the most simple and direct manner possible." Music: An Art and a Language I verily believe that twenty years ago those clothes of Matthew Arnold stood for more in America's estimate of England than the Alabama incident. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations I read not long ago a somewhat elaborate attempt to make out that the people who admire Mr. Matthew Arnold's poems admire them because they, the people, are Oxford men. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 By this criticism, however, as Matthew Arnold has observed, the work is judged in spite of all its power and attractiveness. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Even Matthew Arnold was forced to admit that there is no civilization without it. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order Matthew Arnold's beautiful lines on labor are applicable to Brahms. Music: An Art and a Language Matthew Arnold, to put it bluntly, was wrong-headed in his judgment of America and Americans to a degree which one living long in the United States only comes slowly and reluctantly to understand. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations The gospel of the average man, Matthew Arnold thought, was inimical to the ideal of a rare and high excellence. Whitman A Study English 'Philistines,' as represented by Macaulay, the prince of Philistines, according to Matthew Arnold, carry their contempt of the higher intellectual interests to a pitch of real sublimity. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Now Matthew Arnold tells us that the Gospel narratives passed through at least fifty years of oral tradition before they became fixed in the form in which we now have them. Carmen Ariza In considering Berlioz, one is always reminded of Matthew Arnold's lines on Byron, who resembles Berlioz so closely. Music: An Art and a Language The late Senator Hoar in his Autobiography of Seventy Years has some very shrewd remarks about Matthew Arnold. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations What Matthew Arnold called the Anglo-Saxon contagion, the bourgeois spirit, the worldly and sordid ideal, is entirely corrected in Whitman by the ascendant of the ethic and the universal. Whitman A Study According to Matthew Arnold some unknown man of genius gave to Christendom the fourth gospel, and with sublime self-abnegation allowed his name to perish. Bible Romances First Series Matthew Arnold said that the only thing that can be verified about God is that He is ‘the eternal power that makes for righteousness.’ Carmen Ariza An antagonist very different from the Bishops was Mr. Matthew Arnold, who severely censured Colenso's whole method of criticism, as a handling of religious questions in an irreligious spirit. Arrows of Freethought Matthew Arnold called the American newspapers "an awful symptom"—"the worst features in the life of the United States." The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Or, if we turn to pure literature, we may instance Matthew Arnold and Algernon Swinburne. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Such differences induced Mr. Matthew Arnold to call Luther a Philistine of genius; just as they led Goethe to say that Luther threw back the intellectual progress of mankind for centuries. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) I changed that concept later to Matthew Arnold’s ‘that something not ourselves that makes for righteousness.’ Carmen Ariza To use Matthew Arnold's happy expression, they talk familiarly about God as though he were a man living in the next street. Arrows of Freethought To Englishmen, knowing nothing of the background, the mere fact as stated by Matthew Arnold is curious. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Now the Republic educates every boy and girl, and Mr. Matthew Arnold assures us that the French schools are among the best in Europe, while the sale of good books is prodigious. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) What is the God of our own theology, as Matthew Arnold puts it, but a magnified man? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Matthew Arnold, I think, likewise came very close to the truth when he said that the only God we can recognize is ‘that something not ourselves that makes for righteousness.’ Carmen Ariza ‘In modern life,’ said Matthew Arnold once, ‘you cannot well enter a monastery; but you can enter the Wordsworth Society.’ A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies Matthew Arnold spoke not too pleasantly of the curious sensation that he experienced in addressing a bookseller in America as "General." The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations Less strongly intellectual natures, as Maine de Biran, De Senancourt, and Matthew Arnold, listen with admiration, but feel how unknown to the mass of human kind must remain the tongue these masters speak. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion The position reminds us of Matthew Arnold's definition of God as "the stream of tendency by which all things strive to fulfil the law of their being." Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle “As time passed I gradually began to feel much more kindly toward Matthew Arnold, who said, ‘Orthodox theology is an immense misunderstanding of the Bible.’ Carmen Ariza Matthew Arnold says: "The first desire of every cultured mind is to take part in the great work of government." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Two Irish members of the British Parliament, Matthew Arnold and P. J. Sheridan,—the latter supposed to be the mysterious No. 1 of the Phœnix Park assassination scheme—are in Chicago the present week. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Note.—Most of the poetical extracts throughout this chapter are taken from Matthew Arnold's "Balder Dead." Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas Shelley, Matthew Arnold held, was not quite sane. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle “Matthew Arnold,” ventured Haynerd, “was dubbed a first-class infidel, as I recall it.” Carmen Ariza Paul's final note on "The Function of Criticism" reads: I consider that Matthew Arnold insists too much on the non-practical element of criticism. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The attraction of Germany is not only paramount in literature, in Walter Scott and Mill and Matthew Arnold; the superiority of German blood and constitution was an article of faith of the Victorians. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war And not until man develops his mental, spiritual and physical faculties to what Matthew Arnold calls ‘a harmonious perfection,’ will he be able to reach the heights from which Idealism is waving to him.” The Book of Khalid Matthew Arnold said of Shelley that he was "a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain." Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle The deduction of right conclusions will follow––provided, as Matthew Arnold so tersely said, we have sufficient delicacy of perception, subtlety, wisdom, and tact. Carmen Ariza Though he has written a noble sonnet in homage to Shakespeare's genius, Matthew Arnold once permitted himself to say that "Homer leaves Shakespeare as far behind as perfection leaves imperfection." War Letters of a Public-School Boy Matthew Arnold would have expressed this by saying that we are required to be made accessible to the influence of the Zeitgeist. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Mr. Burroughs ascribes to Emerson, who stimulated his religious nature, his improved literary expression; while Whitman was to him a great humanizing power, and Matthew Arnold taught him clear thinking and clean writing. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 The best of the stories possess that ‘certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere,’ which Matthew Arnold assigned as the gift of literary genius. Australian Writers It is not 'little Englandism' that is the matter with those who still cling to such views; it is, as Huxley and Matthew Arnold correctly diagnosed, administrative Nihilism. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals On another page: "Matthew Arnold himself often wanting in sweetness and light." War Letters of a Public-School Boy Matthew Arnold said: “No man can trust himself to speak of his own time and his own contemporaries with the same sureness of judgment and the same proportion as of times and men gone by.” McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Having read long ago Matthew Arnold’s Essay on Heine, I know the French for “whistle” or a word which conveyed the idea of whistling to the engine driver. A Padre in France For English readers we cannot do better than quote Mr. Matthew Arnold's interesting account, given in the Fortnightly, 1877, of his visit to her in August, 1846. Famous Women: George Sand No person has attained greater skill in repetition than Matthew Arnold, and much of his clearness comes from his repetition, often of the very same phrases. English: Composition and Literature The poet was Matthew Arnold, who spent most of the last fifteen years of his life at Pain's Hill Cottage. Highways and Byways in Surrey All I ever knew of the church of Brou I had gathered, years ago The Church of Brou from Matthew Arnold's beautiful poem which bears its name. A Little Tour of France Chosen and edited, with Preface, by Matthew Arnold. Dante: His Times and His Work "It calls a halt," he said "on the senseless haste of Christians to take up such pagans as Matthew Arnold, and raises a warning cry against surrender to the pagan spirit which is abroad." The Art of Disappearing In the paragraph below, quoted from Matthew Arnold, every phrase that is the point from which the next sentence springs is in a position where it can act untrammeled. English: Composition and Literature To deal with Hugo's first published, though not first written, novel requires, in almost the highest degree, what Mr. Matthew Arnold called "a purged considerate mind." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I remembered that line of Matthew Arnold's, and the stanza about the Duchess Margaret coming to watch the builders on her palfrey white. A Little Tour of France Mr. Clodd adorns the title-page of his Life of Huxley with the words of Matthew Arnold: 'He saw life steadily and saw it whole.' A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds It is true, as Matthew Arnold said, that an Englishman wants to do as he likes; but it is not always true even that he likes what he likes. What I Saw in America Matthew Arnold considers literature a "criticism of life," and he values a work with reference to the moral significance of its ideas. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life It is interesting, with this in mind, to compare Wilde's witticisms with those of Matthew Arnold or Bernard Shaw. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations But if this condemnation holds true, it includes also Macaulay, R. L. Stevenson, Matthew Arnold, and how many others! G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study For, in his Literature and Dogma, Matthew Arnold shows that she is the representative of a numerous and powerful class. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds It was 'the way the world was going,' as Matthew Arnold reverentially remarked in some connection; perhaps as part of a definition of God. What I Saw in America An example of the intellectual estimate, the valuation by formulas, and the assignment of abstract rank, is this paragraph from Matthew Arnold's essay on Wordsworth. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life Sometimes in talking of his great contemporaries, Tennyson, Meredith, Swinburne, Rossetti, Morris, Matthew Arnold, Borrow, there would creep into his voice a note of reminiscent sadness; but it always seemed poetic rather than personal. Old Familiar Faces He is not that "cloud-capped mountain," too lofty to be scanned, of Matthew Arnold's Sonnet. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Matthew Arnold speaks of him as a figure of most magical potency and sweetness and charm. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds There are two very interesting stories pertaining to this much quoted poem, one relating to the origin of the poem, the other recording its effect on two fastidious young Englishmen, Hartley Coleridge and Matthew Arnold. Stories of Authors, British and American Macaulay printed the first two volumes of his "History of England," while Matthew Arnold brought out his "Strayed Reveller" and other poems. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Things have altogether changed since the sixties and seventies, when I published my most important work—at a time when the prominent names were Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold, Rossetti, Morris, and Swinburne. Old Familiar Faces Matthew Arnold had�and it is a rare gift�in spite of his peaceful domestic life and in spite of that "interlude" of the "Marguerite" poems�a noble and a chaste soul. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions On another beautiful evening, nearly seven centuries later, Matthew Arnold passed suddenly away. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Once when the late Matthew Arnold, with his family, was visiting the ever-hospitable country home of Mr. Charles Butler, I happened to spend an evening there. Stories of Authors, British and American Matthew Arnold was a master of this kind of poetry, which takes its form, through Wordsworth, from the solemn and so-called “metaphysical” writers of the seventeenth century. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature We have here, in short, the sphere of what Matthew Arnold likes to call Aberglaube, legitimate, inexpugnable, yet doomed to eternal variations and disputes. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Matthew Arnold is one of the poets who have what might be called "the power of Liberation." Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Reversing Matthew Arnold's sunnier memories: No rigorous teachers seized his youth, And purged its faith and tried its fire, Shewed him the high, white star of truth, There bade him gaze, and there aspire. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds Another poet whom I knew at Oxford as an undergraduate, and whom I watched and admired to the end of his life, was Matthew Arnold. Stories of Authors, British and American I will slip in also a volume 17 or two of Matthew Arnold, as a good touchstone to try them on. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance And their satisfaction therewith stands in no sympathy with those who hold it a mark of enlightenment to assume with Matthew Arnold, that "miracles do not happen." Miracles and Supernatural Religion From the poetry of Matthew Arnold it is possible to derive an art of life which carries us back to the beginnings of the world's history. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions This is the effective and affecting incident of which Matthew Arnold makes such good use in his Merman. Europa's Fairy Book Matthew Arnold has said somewhere that an author's place in the future is to be determined by his contemporaneous ranking in foreign lands. Stories of Authors, British and American He is pained by Matthew Arnold's 'occasional habit of harking back and loitering in mind among the sepulchres.... Studies in Literature and History One realizes in this way the force of Matthew Arnold's definition of character as "a completely fashioned will." Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium It is easy to miss the especial grandeur of Matthew Arnold's work. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Between the classic and the Christian hymn, as Matthew Arnold has reminded us, there is a great gulf fixed. Horace Balder has been a favorite subject for poetic treatment, perhaps to best effect in Matthew Arnold's dignified "Balder Dead." Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes He awards unmeasured praise to Matthew Arnold, while of his defects and shortcomings he speaks plainly. Studies in Literature and History The importance of the university in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries," says Matthew Arnold, "was extraordinary. Colleges in America With some poets, with Milton and Matthew Arnold, for example, there is always a kind of implicit sub-reference, accompanying the heroic gesture or the magical touch, to our poor normal humanity. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions When, therefore, Matthew Arnold defined religion as morality touched with emotion, he substituted a fallacy for a definition. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative It was an edition of Matthew Arnold's poems, and one of the stanzas was marked. The Uncalled A Novel Some pathetic lines in the short poem by Matthew Arnold called A Southern Night commemorate his untimely death. Studies in Literature and History This moral and religious equipment is necessary for right conduct which, Matthew Arnold says, is three-fourths of life. Colleges in America You ask me what the Philosophy of Matthew Arnold was? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The imagination of religion, contributing what Matthew Arnold called its "poetry and eloquence," does not submit itself to such canons as are binding upon theology or science, but exists and flourishes in its own right. The Approach to Philosophy Nevertheless, I am struck with the likeness between a common attribute of the Greeks and Matthew Arnold’s characterization of the Americans. Historical Essays His opening words are a translation of what Matthew Arnold calls "that buoyant and immortal sentence with which Aristotle begins his Metaphysics,"—"All mankind naturally desire knowledge." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 To practice law or medicine in France," says Matthew Arnold, "a person must possess a diploma, which serves as a guarantee to the public that such a personPage 206 is qualified for his profession. Colleges in America Yes, there is only one Philosophy, as Disraeli said, jesting; and Matthew Arnold, among the moderns, is the one who has been allowed to put it into his poetry. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions That is the sort of statement which one may treat with Matthew Arnold's "patient, deep disdain." The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 I know Matthew Arnold, and am told that he whispered Truth exquisite, unheeded in the haste of America. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Just as Matthew Arnold insisted that religion was a matter of conduct rather than forms and dogmas so Booker Washington held that education is a matter of character and not forms. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization It is, for example, the obvious aim of Mr. Matthew Arnold to protect, amid the wreck of dogma, the poetic basis of religion. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The immoral cruelty of Fate has been well expressed by Matthew Arnold in that poem called "Mycerinus," where the virtuous king does not receive his reward. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Matthew Arnold's discourse on Emerson was received with strong dissent in Boston, where it was delivered, and in Concord, where it was read with indignation. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman It is character that gives fundamental tone to literature; and, as Matthew Arnold has said, the best results are not attainable without "high seriousness." Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism I shall take Matthew Arnold along; I have had no chance at all to read it as yet. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands The Life written by Macaulay for the Encyclopedia Britannica and reprinted by Matthew Arnold in his edition of the Six Chief Lives must not be confused with the essay reprinted in the collected Essays. Dr. Johnson and His Circle This is that mood of "resignation," which, from Homer to Matthew Arnold, is alone adapted, in the long run, to the taste of our days upon earth. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The speaker had seemingly himself been stung by criticism; or he was reacting against Matthew Arnold, the celebrated "Harvard indifference," and the cynical talk of the clubs. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman At this time, I had not seen Matthew Arnold's paper on Maurice de Guérin, and I did not know that any appreciation of his sister had been written in English. Confessions of a Book-Lover He was, with the single exception of Matthew Arnold, the foremost critic of his time. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 To such a conception we can never return after all that has been done for us by Wordsworth and Coleridge and Matthew Arnold, to say nothing of some living critics like Mr. Yeats. Dr. Johnson and His Circle I sometimes think that a certain wonderful blending of realism and magic in Matthew Arnold's poetry has received but scant justice. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions He is the teacher of a new morality and, if one accepted Matthew Arnold's definition of religion as "morality touched with emotion," he might be called the preacher of a new religion. Socialism: Positive and Negative —Poetry of Byron, chosen and arranged by Matthew Arnold, 1881, p. xiii. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Wordsworth, too, he read and re-read with fresh delight, and it is interesting to compare his views of the lake poet with those of Matthew Arnold. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 By Matthew Arnold Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Those who read Matthew Arnold, and love him, know that his intellectual tone is the tone of those great classical writers, and his conclusions their conclusions. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The above lines from Matthew Arnold are quoted by one of my very numerous correspondents to support a certain optimism in this matter of a systematic attempt to improve the mind. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women Is his religion merely that peculiar quality of the moral life defined by Mr. Matthew Arnold as "morality touched by emotion?" Natural Law in the Spiritual World Matthew Arnold, in his poem addressed to a nightingale, sings: Hark! ah, the nightingale— The tawny-throated! Creative Unity Let us recall Matthew Arnold's famous description of the Oxus, now seen for the first time by the Greeks. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole He who has read Matthew Arnold’s “Gipsy Scholar” may, however, find therein many apt words for it. The Gypsies Allow me but a trifling emendation, and Matthew Arnold's lines will serve to indicate that romance.' Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Chiefly in humanizing them, in making the gospel story "palpitate with actuality" to quote the French phrase which Matthew Arnold loved to use. King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth "Matthew Arnold had a wretched delivery, and I think there was something in what he said." The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Matthew Arnold says that school reading should be copious, well chosen and systematic. Children and Their Books Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists, beginning, if they will, with Matthew Arnold. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. As Matthew Arnold said of the remarks of the Young Man from the Country about the perambulator, they are felt not to be at the heart of the situation. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens To quote Matthew Arnold's well-known lines: "Unaffrighted by the silence round them, Undistracted by the sights they see, These demand not that the things without them Yield them love, amusement, sympathy." Human Traits and their Social Significance Matthew Arnold was captivated by the simile of light, and having repeated Amiel's passionate cry for "more light," used "sweetness and light" as a refrain in all his criticism. Personality in Literature Matthew Arnold once recommended those who cannot read Greek or Latin to read Milton as a far better key than any translation can be to the secret of the greatness of the ancient poets. Milton Matthew Arnold alone says only what is worth saying. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation One more cause of misunderstanding may be illustrated from the writings of Matthew Arnold. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield "Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery!" wrote Matthew Arnold. Human Traits and their Social Significance One whom schools of thought, represented by men so opposed as Mill, Renan, Matthew Arnold, Spinoza, Goethe, Napoleon and Rousseau, conspired to honour must have been indeed a "king of men". Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles Philistinism, as Matthew Arnold describes it, is a complacent satisfaction with the kind of good that is praised and sought for in any given time. The Moral Economy Matthew Arnold’s function was to protest against its fashions by his own intellectual practice, and now and then to take it to task and to call it to order. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Matthew Arnold’s line is hackneyed enough; but it cannot be bettered. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield If, as Matthew Arnold says, conduct is three-fourths of life, then a careful inquiry into the laws of conduct is indispensable to the proper interpretation of the meaning and purpose of life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Matthew Arnold wished that when he died he might be placed at the open window, that he might see the sun shining on the landscape, and catch at evening the gleam of the rising star. The Essentials of Spirituality But a larger importance attaches to that mild variety of anarchism which is commonly called laissez-faire, and which Matthew Arnold calls British Atheism or Quietism. The Moral Economy Shakespeare did not, nor could Homer; and how should Matthew Arnold? Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Matthew Arnold was the son of the well-known English schoolmaster, Thomas Arnold of Rugby. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American But probably the best illustration of it is to be found in Goethe and Schiller; while in our country Matthew Arnold has given it a powerful and persuasive exposition. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics I recently read a biography of Matthew Arnold, the author of which constantly speaks of himself as Arnold's disciple. The Essentials of Spirituality The charm of the book is the permanent charm of all literature, according to Matthew Arnold’s admirable definition. Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." The greatest English critic of these latter days, Mr. Matthew Arnold, showed his appreciation by making a selection from them for popular use. Immortal Memories Matthew Arnold was one of England’s purest and greatest men. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 My good girl, I have again and again advised you to turn that invaluable curiosity of yours—curiosity, a quality which Mr. Matthew Arnold so justly views with high esteem—into wider and nobler channels. The Mark Of Cain I remember that Mr. Matthew Arnold admired the story greatly, and he had no Jacobite or local bias. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Poets and Prose-Writers.—The six greatest poets of the latter half of this century are Longfellow, a distinguished American poet, Tennyson, Mrs Browning, Robert Browning, 354 William Morris, and Matthew Arnold. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Coleridge was a critic first, and his poetry, though good, is small in quantity, and the same may be said of Matthew Arnold. Immortal Memories Matthew Arnold received his preparatory education in his father’s school at Rugby, and his college training at Oxford. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Miss Shields had not studied Mr. Matthew Arnold, and was mercifully unaware that not to detect the "pinchbeck" in the Lays is the sign of a grovelling nature. The Mark Of Cain Matthew Arnold's poem on this incident is among his better-known works. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Great poets, like Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, understand well the fine effect to be produced from the mingling of short and long words—of the homely English with the more ornate Romance language. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 I am the last to disclaim the influence of what is sometimes called “Celticism” upon English literature; upon this point I am certain that Matthew Arnold has said almost the last word. Immortal Memories Two men, both competent to judge, have given at length their opinion of Matthew Arnold’s character. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Milton, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Matthew Arnold came later, but while I was still a boy. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography In fact, it is in the fabliau that the characteristic which Mr Matthew Arnold selected as the opprobrium of the French in life and literature practically makes its first appearance. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Our oldest English Poetry.—The verse written by our old English writers was very different in form from the verse that appears now from the hands of Tennyson, or Browning, or Matthew Arnold. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Next they met Mr. Matthew Arnold, smiling a happy smile, and concocting a 'childlike and bland' article for the 'Nineteenth Century' on the present crisis. 'That Very Mab' Matthew Arnold, the great English critic, scholar and poet, has used the incidents that follow as the subject of one of his most interesting poems. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 At Easter, 1868, Matthew Arnold came to live at Harrow, with a view of placing his three boys in the School. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Better be the Napoleon of bootblacks, or the Alexander of chimney-sweeps, let us say with Matthew Arnold, than a shallow-brained attorney who, like necessity, knows no law. Pushing to the Front ‘Our unrivaled prosperity’ was a phrase which greatly irritated Matthew Arnold. The Bibliotaph and Other People Will the reader “be surprised to learn” that it was connected with Matthew Arnold and a race in which he took a good deal of interest, the gypsies? The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" We entered the 'prison-house' of Puritanism says Matthew Arnold, I think, and stayed there for a couple of centuries. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century He came to Harrow in 1869, and lived with Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Arnold. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography We have, as Matthew Arnold says, solved the political and social problems better than any other people, though we ourselves perceive that the solution is by no means final. Education and the Higher Life Matthew Arnold spoke of Heine as a sardonic smile on the face of the Zeitgeist. The Bibliotaph and Other People Matthew Arnold was a great man, and he stood up to lecture the University of Oxford on translating Homer. Brother Copas This happened, in the last generation, to Carlyle and Ruskin, and in a certain degree to Matthew Arnold. By the Christmas Fire And there was Matthew Arnold living on the Hill, generously encouraging every bud of literary promise, and always warning us against our tendency to "Middle-class Macaulayese." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The genius of Carlyle, the culture preached by Matthew Arnold, would not, persuasive as they were, have alone produced this effect but for an external phenomenon of great force. A Short History of England The envoys meet, and hold a debate which Thucydides gives in full, and which, for sweet reasonableness of form, would have satisfied Matthew Arnold. Memories and Studies You know Matthew Arnold's lines on his father. Letters to His Friends Ruskin had a real grievance, and so had Matthew Arnold. By the Christmas Fire "No public man," said Matthew Arnold, "in this country will be damaged by having even 'fanaticism' in his hatred of slavery imputed to him." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The summary decision that the chief use of France is to interpret England to Europe, is a typical example of that insular arrogance for which Matthew Arnold popularised the name of Philistinism. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) In short, taking his works through and through, Mozart was what, in the words of Mr. Matthew Arnold, we might call the composer of "sweetness and light." A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present There is indeed a tradition, that Matthew Arnold had things to say about Shakespeare which he dared not utter, because the British public would not stand them. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 This was as true of Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold, and all the genus irritabile vatum, as of the politicians and the men of action. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies "The Spectator," wrote Matthew Arnold in 1865, "is all very well, but the article has Hutton's fault of seeing so very far into a mill-stone." Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography When it raged, La Bruyère was like the East in Matthew Arnold's poem, he "bow'd low before the blast in patient, deep disdain." Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France He makes no mention of Carlyle or Ruskin or Matthew Arnold, and they in their turn, it may be added, make no mention of him or of his works. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Critics have practically recognised that letters are a reflex of life long before Matthew Arnold formulated the relation. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 The point which Matthew Arnold singles out in estimating his character is the width of his sympathies. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies That was written in 1871; and, when sixteen years had elapsed, I thought it would be safe, and I knew it would be amusing, to bring Sala and Matthew Arnold face to face at dinner. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography Matthew Arnold does not embellish his criticism, nor does he make any special appeal to the feelings or emotions of his readers. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric So far as this is true, I can only apologize for speaking at all, and should be content to refer my readers to such able guides as Mr. Matthew Arnold and the late Professor Conington. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Carlyle was against things because they were English; so was Matthew Arnold. A Hero and Some Other Folks From this point of view we may, paraphrasing Matthew Arnold, define religion as motivated ethics. Applied Eugenics Matthew Arnold says in one of his essays that Americans lack distinction. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Consequently his criticism has been more popular than Matthew Arnold's. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Matthew Arnold's magic of poetry, magical words and lines, explain all its charm for me. Confessions of Boyhood The belief that Celtic literature is essentially and eternally melancholy,—a belief which persisted down to the time of Matthew Arnold, also drew its strength from the poems of Ossian. Romance Two Lectures Now, I ask, after having endured this sort of thing day after day for three months, can I be expected to admire Geist, Germany, or Mr. Matthew Arnold? Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris I have a huge liking for Matthew Arnold. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 This is nicely illustrated by Matthew Arnold, one of the most accomplished of pure critics. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Matthew Arnold, explaining why those were his most popular poems which dealt with his canine pets, Geist, Kaiser, and Max, said that while comparatively few loved poetry, nearly everyone loved dogs. The Dog's Book of Verse Matthew Arnold holds that an unconscious "power which makes for right," is a higher idea of God than the Jehovah of the Bible. What is Darwinism? The difference is just the difference between Shelley and Matthew Arnold. Modern Religious Cults and Movements He thought Matthew Arnold the greatest living Englishman. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 It is observable that Matthew Arnold, the eldest son, and the author of the volume of poems to which you allude, inherits his mother’s defect. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle According to Matthew Arnold it is "the best that has been thought and said in the world." Platform Monologues The poetry I regard least is such stuff as that of Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold, which argues and illuminates. Damn! A Book of Calumny It was this: "Matthew Arnold gave fifty lectures in America, and nobody ever heard one of them; those in his audience who could no longer endure the silence slipped quietly out." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Matthew Arnold had the best pair of intellectual eyes of our time. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 Walt Whitman is mentioned only thrice in the Journals, Lowell only twice, Longfellow once or twice, Matthew Arnold three times, but Jones Very is quoted and discussed sixteen times. The Last Harvest Such embodiments as these are instruments for that which Matthew Arnold holds to be the object of poetry, namely, the powerful and beautiful application of "ideas to life." Platform Monologues He had yet to read the essay in which Matthew Arnold says that "Byron shattered, inevitably shattered himself against the black rock of British Philistinism." The Loom of Youth Major Pond, having lived much with orators, and thinking the trick easy, tried oratory on his own account, and succeeded as well as did Matthew Arnold. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers His published lectures on rhetoric and oratory, now almost wholly forgotten, remind one of Matthew Arnold in their delicate and discriminating touch. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 I once defended Emerson against a criticism of Matthew Arnold's. The Last Harvest We can also imagine him setting opinion against opinion, outweighing Macaulay with the greater name of Wordsworth and Macaulay's disciples with the name of Matthew Arnold. Platform Monologues From first to last the aristocrat remains, what Matthew Arnold so justly called him, a barbarian. Post-Prandial Philosophy Matthew Arnold cultivated repose, but instead of convincing the audience that he had power, he only made them think he was sleepy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Matthew Arnold, apparently quite unconsciously, echoed the precise phrase when seeking to express poetically the universality of Shakespeare's reputation in our own day. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The initial number contained a Prefatory Sonnet by Tennyson, and articles by Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Cardinal Manning, and the Dean of Gloucester and Bristol. Early Reviews of English Poets Matthew Arnold's antithesis of Hellenic thinking to Hebraic doing needs much qualification. Platform Monologues I put down the newspaper in which this airy dictum was printed, and, for the first time, I was glad that poor Mr. Matthew Arnold was no longer with us. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Matthew Arnold has slipped back into his true position—that of a man of letters. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Even Matthew Arnold, though he saw this peril and prided himself on escaping it, did not altogether escape it. The Victorian Age in Literature Once he consented to join a friend in trying Matthew Arnold’s “Scholar Gypsy” on Gypsy taste. George Borrow The Man and His Books We shall breed up a race not only without what Matthew Arnold calls distinction, but without any common animating soul, unless it be a general selfishness and a general Philistinism. Platform Monologues Addison's death was as distant as is from us that of Matthew Arnold; and Thomson, who had been dead two years, had left The Castle of Indolence as an equivalent to Mr. Hardy's Dynasts. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Matthew Arnold was a great writer, and he also thought he was a great orator. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers There are fuller collections of the Letters of Leigh Hunt, Thackeray, Dickens, the Brownings, Fitzgerald, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, and more recently the Letters of George Meredith, edited by his son. The Victorian Age in Literature Note what Matthew Arnold has called the secret and the method of Jesus. Our Unitarian Gospel I do not say that the poet is without his measure of feeling; but it is rather the pensive feeling of a Jaques, the dainty interest of a Matthew Arnold, than any surge of emotion. Platform Monologues |
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