 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...  The American Oxonian - Page 411927Full view - About this book
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 478 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...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us near to the true goal... | |
 | University extension - 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...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... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - American essays - 1894 - 200 pages
...realised that beautiful vision of Oxford which Dr. Arnold's son has given to the world, when she lay " spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering...from her towers the last enchantments of the middle age." Clough, in the fulness of his early intellectual awakening, had already passed beyond the spell... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 496 pages
...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 near to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Authors, English - 1895 - 410 pages
...ineffaceable; but the first fine careless rapture found voice in Thalatta. Were it not that Oxford—" steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age " —has since been touched by an incomparable pencil, I might have ventured to reprint a passage... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play 1 " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...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 - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play! " 20 And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...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 - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...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,...ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of 25 us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pages
...! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens...the Middle Ages, who will deny that Oxford, by her i nef fable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians all at play I " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading...from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calliug us nearer to the true goal... | |
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