 ... erroneous conceptions about many important matters, we shall find that this art, and poetry, and eloquence, have in fact not only the power of refreshing and delighting us, they have also the power, — such is the strength and worth, in essentials,...  Discourses in America - Page 121by Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1882 - 884 pages
...power — such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life — they have a fortifying and elevating and quickening and...I imagine, grotesque ; but really, under the shock ot hearing from modern science that " the world is not subordinated to man's use, and that man is not... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 pages
...power — such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life — they have a fortifying and elevating and quickening and...I imagine, grotesque ; but really, under the shock ot hearing from modern science that " the world is not subordinated to man's use, and that man is not... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 pages
...power, — such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life, — they have a fortifying and elevating and quickening and...of wonderfully helping us to relate the results of modem science to our need for conduct, our need for beauty. Homer's conceptions of the physical universe... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - 212 pages
...power, — such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life, — they have a fortifying, and elevating, and quickening,...science to our need for conduct, our need for beauty." [Almost entirely periodic.] (d.) " If we are studying physiology, it is interesting to know that the... | |
 | 1892 - 348 pages
...power, — such is the strength and worth in essentials of their author's criticism of life, — they have a fortifying, and elevating, and quickening,...results of modern science to our need for conduct, to our need for beauty." Now what place should the translations of the ancient classics hold in our... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1893 - 254 pages
...criticism of life, — they have a fortifying, and elevating, and quickening, and suggestive p_ower, capable of wonderfully helping us to relate the results...science to our need for conduct, our need for beauty." [Almost entirely periodic.] (d) " If we are studying physiology, it is interesting to know that the... | |
 | 1882 - 900 pages
...power — such arc the strength and worth, in essentials, of their author's criticism of life — they have a fortifying and elevating and quickening and...man's use, and that man is not the cynosure of things terrestrial," I could desire no better comfort than Homer's line which I quoted just now : •rKrfrbv... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life, — they have a 15 fortifying, and elevating, and quickening, and suggestive...of the physical universe were, I imagine, grotesque ; 30 but really, under the shock of hearing from modern science that " the world is not subordinated... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...conduct, ourneed for beautv.j Homer's conceptions of the physical universe were^ I imagine, grotesque ; 20 but really, under the shock of hearing from modern...man's use, and that man is not the cynosure of things terrestrial," I could, for my own part, desire no better comfort than Homer's line which I quoted just... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...power, — such is the strength and worth, in essentials, of their authors' criticism of life, — they have a fortifying, and elevating, and quickening,...man's use, and that man is not the cynosure of things terrestrial,' I could, for my own part, desire no better comfort than Homer's line which I quoted just... | |
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