129 ordspråk av Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold föddes den 24 december 1822 och dog den 15 april 1888 - engelsk kritiker, essayist och skald.
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He [Chaucer] lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Let the victors, when they come, / When the forts of folly fall, / Find thy body by the wall.

Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, / More fortunate, alas! than we, / Which without hardness will be sage, / And gay without frivolity.

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

From whose floor the new-bathed stars / Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

That sweet city with her dreaming spires.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

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.

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of light.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it

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