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" Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a... "
Nineteenth Century English Prose: Critical Essays - Page 450
edited by - 1908 - 495 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 184

1896 - 588 pages
...was never one of his followers, to paint the picture of him which will be longest remembered. ' Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

1905 - 880 pages
...English priest, English, but with overtones French and Jewish, whom Matthew Arnold remembered as a "spiritual apparition . . . gliding in the dim afternoon...were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful." Carlyle and Newman in conjunction would seem to be like a mastiff and a serpent in one harness. And...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 50

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...what was to us the most national and natural institution in the world — the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 50

1884 - 506 pages
...breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful :t I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fight1 Address delivered in Boston, USA No. 295. — VOL. L. ings and despondings, languor and fretfulness,...
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Discourses in America, Issue 13

Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...what was for us the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music,—subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after...
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A short sketch of the Tractarian upheaval

Thomas Leach - 1887 - 194 pages
...had passed." Another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr. MatthewArnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of S. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence...
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Transcripts and Studies

Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 pages
...passed." And another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? 1 seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings...
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A Short Life of Cardinal Newman

Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1890 - 236 pages
...Arnold has also left on record his impressions of Newman's charm as a preacher. " Who," he asks, " could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? Happy the man who, in the susceptible season of youth, hears such voices ! They are a possession...
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Murray's Magazine, Volume 7

1890 - 880 pages
...be read as long as he is read, than that which Mr. Arnold gave in a lecture in America : — " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still saying, 'After the fever of life, after weariness...
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Murray's Magazine, Volume 7

1890 - 882 pages
...to be read as long as he is read, than that which Mr. Arnold gave in a lecture in America :— " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music—subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still saying, ' After the fever of life, after...
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