Letters of Matthew Arnold 1848-1888, Volume 1Macmillan, 1901 - Critics |
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Page 412 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Page 252 - His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate resignation ; and, after a serious pause of some minutes, he desired to hear the Treaty read, to which he listened with great attention, and recovered spirits enough to declare the approbation of a dying statesman (I use his own words) 'on the most glorious war, and most honourable peace, this nation ever «aw.
Page 5 - It will be rioting here, only ; still the hour of the hereditary peerage and eldest s'onship and immense properties has, I am convinced, as Lamartine would say, struck.
Page 252 - I found him,' he continues, * so languid, that I proposed postponing my business for another time ; but he insisted that I should stay, saying, it could not prolong his life to neglect his duty ; and repeating the following passage out of Sarpedon's speech, he dwelled with particular emphasis on the third line, which recalled to his mind the distinguishing part he had taken in public affairs...
Page 431 - Him that overcometh, will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God : and I will write upon him my new name.
Page 111 - Fraser, a sort of r6swm& of the present question as the result of what I have thought, read, and observed here about it. I am very well, and only wish I was not so lazy ; but I hope and believe one is less so from forty to fifty, if one lives, than at any other time of life. The loss of youth ought to operate as a spur to one to live more by the head, when one can live less by the body. Have you seen Mill's book on Liberty ? It is worth reading attentively, being one of the few books that inculcate...
Page 10 - How plain it is now, though an attention to the comparative literatures for the last fifty years might have instructed any one of it, that England is in a certain sense far behind the Continent.
Page 117 - You and Clough are, I believe, the two people I in my heart care most to please by what I write. Clough (for a wonder) is this time satisfied, even delighted, " with one or two insignificant exceptions,
Page 4 - French people, no more than one's own, are up to the measure of the ideal citizen they seem to propose to themselves ; this thought constantly presses on me, but the question to be tried is whether the proclamation of this ideal city and public recognition of it may not bring a nation nearer to that measure than the professedly unbelieving Governments hitherto for some time in force everywhere. The source of repose in Carlyle's article is that he alone puts aside the din and whirl and brutality which...
Page 305 - London struck me greatly. I found a side in him I did not know was there. I see by extracts from the Telegraph, etc., how furious he has made the vulgar Liberals ; but he has necessitated a more searching treatment of the whole question of Reform, and the rank and file of English platforms and House of Commons speakers, though, no doubt, they will still talk platitudes, will, at any rate, have to learn new ones. Heaven forbid that the English nation should become like this nation ; but Heaven forbid...