 More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced...  Matthew Arnold, how to Know Him - Page 148by Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1917 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 pages
...in Mr. Arnold's opinion, is in future to be a substitute for religion. " More and more," lie says, " mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, and to sustain us . . . . Wordsworth finely and truly calls poetry ' the breath and finer spirit of... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1885 - 972 pages
...wise instructor and critic, Dr. Matthew Arnold, tells us (in one of his least wise utterances) that " the strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious...interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. ... Most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." When that... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...VOL. I. b called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | 1880 - 400 pages
...uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 pages
...VOL. L b called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 610 pages
...VOL. I. b called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more, mankind will discover that we have...will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes \\ith us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1886 - 312 pages
...it luis hitherto been the custom to conceive of it : ' More and moro mankind will discover that wo have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console and sustain us. Science will appear incomplete without it, for well doc:) Wordsworth call poetry the... | |
 | 1883 - 638 pages
...men h*ve assigned to it hitherto. More and more m mkind will discover that we have to turn to p >etry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain...religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Science, I say, will appear incomplete without it. For finely and truly does Wordsworth call poetry... | |
 | 1891 - 750 pages
...the idea is everything. . . . Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea, the idea is the fact. . . . More and more mankind will discover that we have to...will appear incomplete ; and most of what now passes for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." — MATTHEW ARNOLD. " NOT a creed unshaken,"... | |
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