The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... Matthew Arnold excels them . Both had a wonderful balance of phrase and both knew how to write sen- tences pleasing to the eye . Both had an ear of ex- treme sensitiveness . If anyone could combine their merits in the man- ner of ...
... Matthew Arnold excels them . Both had a wonderful balance of phrase and both knew how to write sen- tences pleasing to the eye . Both had an ear of ex- treme sensitiveness . If anyone could combine their merits in the man- ner of ...
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... Matthew Arnold . But Matthew Arnold , he thought , was a bit of a philistine himself . He talked to me of Swin- burne's Poems and Ballads and of Omar Khayyám . He knew a great many of the quatrains by heart and recited them to me on our ...
... Matthew Arnold . But Matthew Arnold , he thought , was a bit of a philistine himself . He talked to me of Swin- burne's Poems and Ballads and of Omar Khayyám . He knew a great many of the quatrains by heart and recited them to me on our ...
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... Matthew Arnold or even Brune- tière . It is true that he would not have occupied him- self much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to ...
... Matthew Arnold or even Brune- tière . It is true that he would not have occupied him- self much with current literature , and if we may judge by the three I have mentioned , had he done so it would have been of no direct service to ...
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