Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. Poems - Seite xvon Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 248 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 Seiten
...most excellent ? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections; to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. The modernness or antiquity of action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 534 Seiten
...In the Spectator of April 2, 1853. The words quoted were not used with, reference to poems of mine. those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of tune. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests them is permanent and the same... | |
| 1914 - 970 Seiten
...pontifical approbation. He annotates — ponderously correct: The modernncss or antiquity of an action has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation; this depends upon its inherent qualities. . . . Poetical works belong to the domain of our permanent passions: let them interest these and the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 570 Seiten
...excellent ? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently...same; that which interests them is permanent and the name also. The modernncss or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness... | |
| John Franklin Genung - 1891 - 390 Seiten
...the poem which, though necessarily speaking in the dialect of a nation and an age, is the exponent of "those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." It is on these broad human lines, recognizcand ing tne man beneath the written word, that we will try... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 136 Seiten
...It is one of those great human actions that appeal to the great human affections, to those elemental feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time and place. He selected the most touching situation in the national epic of Firdausi, and recast it... | |
| 1913 - 638 Seiten
...excellent ? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." Matthew Arnold always valued most, and tried hardest to make useful to himself and others, those ideas... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1901 - 532 Seiten
...In the Spectator of April 2, 1853. The words quoted were not used with reference to poems of mine. those elementary feelings which subsist permanently...The modernness or antiquity of an action, therefore, f has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation ; this depends upon its inherent qualities.... | |
| Herbert Woodfield Paul - 1902 - 208 Seiten
...most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time." That is full of instruction, for ever memorable, and profoundly true. If Mr. Browning had borne it... | |
| 1896 - 858 Seiten
...It is one of those great human actions that appeal to the great human affections, to those elemental feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time and place." And Arnold's version of it is a noble poem — a favorite with teachers by the Divine right... | |
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