 Oxford, the Oxford of the past, has many faults : and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness of that beautiful place, have not failed to...  Matthew Arnold - Page 60by George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - 265 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1867 - 796 pages
...Bradlaugh are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection. When 1 insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
 | 1894 - 854 pages
...beliefs, and unpopular names and impossible loyalties ! " Oxford, as lie says elsewhere,1 liad taught the truth that " beauty and sweetness are essential characters of a complete human perfection." Bad philosophies, another critic (I think Professor Flint) has said, when they die, go to Oxford. Arnold... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 pages
...Bradlaugh are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential...a complete human perfection. When I insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty... | |
 | 1867
...Bradlaugb. are sacrificed. We in Oxford, brought up amidst beauty and sweetness, have not failed to seize the truth that beauty and sweetness are essential...a complete human perfection. When I insist on this truth, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for Ixiauty... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 354 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment for beauty and sweetness, our sentiment against hideousness and... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1885 - 424 pages
...and she has heavily paid for them in defeat, in isolation, in want of hold upon the modern world. Yet we in Oxford, brought up amidst the beauty and sweetness...characters of a complete human perfection. When I insis: on this, I am all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldly that this our sentiment... | |
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