 And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal...  Matthew Arnold - Page 75by Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 188 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - 1878 - 712 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene I ' There are our young barbarians, all at play.' And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling ua near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1879 - 612 pages
...expectations ; but for students of high intelligence and sensitive conscience venerable and beautiful Oxford, "spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages," possesses a charm which may be a danger. Walking in the spacious meadows of his college or meditating... | |
 | 1884 - 514 pages
...of it is given by Mr. Matthew Arnold in his wellknown description of "the ineffable charm of Oxford, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...her towers the last enchantments of the middle age." The genius loci, and no less the intercourse with many minds and many characters, the floating atmosphere... | |
 | 1885 - 868 pages
...of living hands could really do it justice ; only the hand which has drawn the beauty of Oxford, " spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantment of the Middle Age," could do justice to the playing-fields of Eton. Here in this lovely... | |
 | Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall Methuen (bart.) - 1887 - 390 pages
...city! so valuable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the kleal, to perfection? " ' AMMS 1 Matthew Arnold, Essays on Criticism, Preface, p. xiii. CHAPTER V.... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1887 - 554 pages
...expectations ; but for students of high intelligence and sensitive conscience venerable and beautiful Oxford, "spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages," possesses a charm which may be a danger. Walking in the spacious meadows of his college or meditating... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 440 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play ! " And yet steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — tojbeauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side 1 — nearer, perhaps, tnan all... | |
 | Sir Algernon Methuen Marshall Methuen (bart.) - 1889 - 388 pages
...! so valuable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the mooulight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that... | |
 | University College of North Wales. Senate - 1892 - 102 pages
...something to the general agreement. Two at least of those given are unique, unapproachable : Oxford ' spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age,' as one of the latest of her great sons has written of her ; and Cambridge, as depicted by that still... | |
 | 1894 - 500 pages
...venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! . . . . steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection ? " JOHN RUSSELL HAYES. Swarthmort College. EDITORIAL. Miss Anna M. Earle, of PhiladelThe Award phia,... | |
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