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" Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic ! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines ! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties... "
Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold - Page 137
by Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 348 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 210

1909 - 544 pages
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Notes and Queries, Volume 171

1936 - 494 pages
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Notes and Queries

1899 - 594 pages
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The North British Review, Volume 42

1865 - 538 pages
...whose heart has been so romantic ! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines...which we are all prone, that bondage which Goethe, in those incomparable lines on the death of Schiller, makes it his friend's highest praise (and nobly...
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The North British Review, Volumes 42-43

1865 - 540 pages
...Philistines I home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and nnpopnlar names, and impossible loyalties 1 What example could ever so inspire us to keep down...which we are all prone, that bondage which Goethe, in those incomparable lines on the death of Schiller, makes it his Iru-nJ's highest praise (and nobly...
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The North American Review, Volume 101

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 pages
...one, first of all, in the apostrophe to the University of Oxford, at the close of the Preface, — " home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties." This is doubtless nothing but sentiment, but it seizes a shade of truth, and conveys it with a directness...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2; Volume 65

1865 - 1022 pages
...whose heart has been so romantic ! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines ! home of lost canses, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties: What example could ever...
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Essays Literary & Critical

Matthew Arnold - 1866 - 528 pages
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 pages
...whose heart has been so romantic ! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines!...that bondage which Goethe, in his incomparable lines on the death of Schiller, makes it his friend's highest praise (and nobly did Schiller deserve the...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 1

1877 - 536 pages
...genius of the place, for the William Penn. 365 chief university of the world has always been " the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties." It was while under the influence of this spirit that he was attracted by the doctrines of George Fox,...
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