 ... 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
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...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... | |
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