 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's rnind lines and expressions of the great masters, arid to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...good, than to have always in one's mind lines and and the men of his lineage, and Charlemagne his liege lord who nourished him." — Chanson de Roland,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apph them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed Ithere can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to appl) them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 σελίδες
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovenng what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to appK them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1892 - 272 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. x ^Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of~the great masters, aricT to apply them as a toucEstone to other poetry. Of course we are not 'this... | |
 | 1906 - 560 σελίδες
...adornment of surface phases of emotion. Matthew Arnold declares in his well-known Essay on Poetry, "Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent . . . than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters and to apply them... | |
 | 1914 - 552 σελίδες
...to Arnold's doctrine of the grand style has to do with his method of applying it. He says, "Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent .... than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 σελίδες
...solidity, we must not heap that supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apph them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 σελίδες
...tests, by which the quality of any piece of verse may be determined. In the opinion of Matthew Arnold, " there can be no more useful help for discovering what...expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as touchstones to other poetry." He who would be a critic in the field of verse must read the best poets... | |
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Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone... 
