 One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried along by a temptation to treat political, or religious, or social matters, directly ; but after yielding to such a temptation I always feel myself recoiling again, and disposed to touch them only...  Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888 - Page 231by Matthew Arnold - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - Authors, English - 1895 - 496 pages
...writing one's rubbish. — Ever most sincerely yours, MATTHEW ARNOLD. To ME Grant Duff, MP WOODFOKD, May 24, 1864. MY DEAR GRANT DUFF — Thank you for...temptation to treat political, or religious, or social 1 " To call attention to the expediency of making the Secondary Endowed Schools throughout the country... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1895 - 496 pages
...— Ever most sincerely yours, MATTHEW ARNOLD. To ME Grant Duff, MP WOODFOED, May 24, 1864. Mr DEAE GRANT DUFF — Thank you for sending me your notice,1...temptation to treat political, or religious, or social 1 " To call attention to the expediency of making the Secondary Endowed Schools throughout the country... | |
 | English periodicals - 1897 - 654 pages
...writing to Sir ME Grant Duff, he says : " One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried away by a temptation to treat political, or religious,...only so far as they can be touched through poetry." But as years went on the temptation to treat these matters directly proved too strong for him, and... | |
 | American fiction - 1899 - 544 pages
...Again, three years later, in a letter to Grant Duff, he expresses this feeling still more strongly: " One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried...touch them only so far as they can be touched through poetry."2 But he kept yielding to the temptation. And how could he be expected to resist, when this... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1900 - 942 pages
...be no doubt of that; but it is well, also, to take the distinction which you have taken be-- tween liberal and learned education, because this is one...temptation to treat political, or religious, or social 1 " To call attention to the expediency of making the Secondary Endowed Schools throughout the country... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1901 - 518 pages
...of those who wish to give their children a liberal but not a learned education." — May 19, 1864. matters, directly; but after yielding to such a temptation...through poetry. — Ever sincerely yours, MATTHEW ABNOLD. To his Mother. 10 ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LLANDUDNO, August 7, 1864. MY DEAKEST MOTHER — This... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - Great Britain - 1904 - 470 pages
...wear, waste, and sore trial to all that is best in one." And again on May 24th of the same year: " One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried...only so far as they can be touched through poetry." Even in 1864 his serious controversial writing can hardly be said to have begun, yet his true attitude... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 pages
...wear, waste, and sore trial to all that is best in one." And again on May 24th of the same year: ' ' One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried...only so far as they can be touched through poetry." Even in 1864 his serious controversial writing can hardly be said to have begun, yet his true attitude... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1905 - 680 pages
...consequently, some of his best letters were written, gives the truest clue to his real attitude. ' One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried along by a temptation to handle political or religious or social matters directly ; but, after yielding to such a temptation,... | |
 | Charles Forster Smith - Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901 - 1909 - 496 pages
...Again, three years later, in a letter to Grant Duff, he expresses this feeling still more strongly: One is from time to time seized and irresistibly carried...touch them only so far as they can be touched through poetry.4" But he kept yielding to the temptation. And how could he be expected to resist, when this... | |
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