Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 181896Full view - About this book
| American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...had passed. " And another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr. Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain : "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after wearinesses... | |
| American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...renew what was for us the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful? I seem to hear him still." In deciding that he would elect to be represented... | |
| English periodicals - 1884 - 506 pages
...renew what was to us the most national and natural institution in the world — the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful :t I seem to hear him still, saying : " After the fever of life, after wearinesses and sicknesses,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1885 - 234 pages
...renew what was for us the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music,—subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still, saying : ' After the fever of life, after... | |
| 1887 - 622 pages
...that had passed." And another Oxford professor of poetry, Mr. Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain: "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful? I seem to hear him still, saying : 'After the fever of life, after wearinesses... | |
| Thomas Leach - Oxford movement - 1887 - 194 pages
...that had passed." Another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr. MatthewArnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of S. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence... | |
| Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 548 pages
...had passed." And another Oxford Professor of Poetry, Mr Matthew Arnold, writes in a like strain : " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — • subtle, sweet, mournful ? 1 seem to hear him still, paying : ' After the fever of life, after... | |
| 1890 - 882 pages
...likely to be read as long as he is read, than that which Mr. Arnold gave in a lecture in America :— " Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music—subtile, sweet, mournful ? I seem to hear him still saying, ' After the fever of life, after... | |
| Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1890 - 236 pages
...Arnold has also left on record his impressions of Newman's charm as a preacher. " Who," he asks, " could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? Happy the man who, in the susceptible season of youth, hears such voices... | |
| United States - 1891 - 890 pages
...Matthew Arnold, too, experienced the spell. " Who could resist," he says in a lecture on Emerson, " the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in...were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful." To Arnold, he was a man " never to be named by a son of Oxford without sympathy ; " and this, though... | |
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