 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...  Essays in Criticism - Page xivby Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1865 - 334 pages
...enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection,...a word, which is only truth seen from another side 1 — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen. Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 538 pages
...steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her garments to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 pages
...steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her garments to the moonlight, ami whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps e.ver calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, ma word, which is only... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection,—to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side 1—nearer, perhaps,... | |
 | 1865 - 540 pages
...steeped in sentiment as slie lies, spreading her garments to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxf ml, by her imffabU; charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of nil of us, to the ideal,... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1897 - 1436 pages
...her gardens to the moonlight and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, who will deny that, Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling one nearer to the ideal — to perfection?" VACATION COURSES IX PARIS. [Ily 11. BA] In Jnly, 1883,... | |
 | 1868 - 798 pages
...might, with far greater force, be applied to Greece : " Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...word, which is only truth seen from another side." t * " Orwoe," by Alex. Biia BangaM. t Matthew Arnold. I will now go on with my personal narrative,... | |
 | Arts - 1868 - 808 pages
...might, with far greater fnrce, be applied to Greece : " Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seeu from another side." t * "Greece," by Alex. Шва Eangabé. t Matthew Arnold. I will now go on... | |
 | Henry C. Pedder - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 200 pages
...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineft"able charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal...— which is only truth seen from another side."| A beautiful tribute certainly. What shall we say of it, however ? Is it for us but a dream, wherein... | |
 | Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth - Ballads - 1878 - 764 pages
...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...Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is... | |
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