The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPoetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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I 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.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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For this is the true strength of guilty kings, When they corrupt the souls of those they rule.
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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