The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDI am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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