Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one... The National Quarterly Review - Page 4031865Full view - About this book
| 1911 - 340 pages
...criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as berng, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great...to a joint action and working to a common result." Deze wijze woorden van Matthew Arnold — natuurlijk door nem niet voor het eerst als een nieuw Evangelie... | |
| 1908 - 390 pages
...thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. 20 That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual...common result ; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of 25 one another. Special,... | |
| Laurie Magnus - 1909 - 448 pages
...about the comparative method. His dictum, ' The criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for...to a joint action, and working to a common result ', has been selected by Professor Saintsbury as the motto for his Periods of European Literature (12... | |
| 1910 - 514 pages
...thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual...common result ; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local,... | |
| Sir Sidney Lee - 1910 - 530 pages
...the sagacious counsel of Matthew Arnold: ' The criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for...to a joint action and working to a common result.' In other words, every great national literature is a fruit of much foreign sustenance and refreshment,... | |
| 1910 - 976 pages
...i), and, ". . the criticism I am really concerned with . . is a criticism which regards Europe äs being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...to a joint action and working to a common result." (p. 39). Again these lines in Intention* (p. 182): — The great majority of people . . rank themselves... | |
| 1911 - 576 pages
...literary criticism which Matthew Arnold called the only criticism than can help us much for the future, 'a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great federation.' " + Lit. D. 42: 121. Ja. 21, '11. 200w. "In general the book is a praiseworthy example... | |
| Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - 1913 - 558 pages
...thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards "Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual...common result ; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1913 - 376 pages
...that few things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result ; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out... | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1913 - 62 pages
...us," he says,1 "conceive of the whole group of civilised nations 1 Preface to the Poems of Wordsworth. as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result ; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out... | |
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