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Essays in Criticism - Page 22
by Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 302 pages
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...seen them will remember ; — the j^looiji, the_smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate childj. " I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there 10 is anything like it ? " Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer ; b/ut at any rate, in that case,...
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The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 3

Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 438 pages
...seen them will remember ; — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child ! ' I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? ' Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer ; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 2

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - American literature - 1903 - 426 pages
...to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Arnold thought that such flattery of the...
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Some New Literary Valuations

William Cleaver Wilkinson - Literature - 1908 - 464 pages
...have seen them will remember — the gloom, the smoke, the cold, the strangled illegitimate child! 'I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it.' Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much to be...
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The Moral Economy

Ralph Barton Perry - Ethics - 1909 - 306 pages
...I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is an almost perfect representation of...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1911 - 458 pages
...look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." This is the old story of our system of checks...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - Fiction - 1913 - 376 pages
...to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Now obviously there is a peril for poor human...
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Essays: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On Translating Homer (with F. W ...

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 pages
...seen them will remember ; — the gloom, the smoke, 40 the cold, the strangled illegitimate child ! ' I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? ' Perhaps not, one is inclined to answer ; but at any rate, in that case, the world is very much...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last." Now obviously there is a peril for poor human...
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Essays, English and American

Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing." for quite stopping the mouths of all gainsayers. Mr. Roebuck is never weary of reiterating...
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