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- As a rookie NFL head coach, Bill Walsh was able to stand on the sideline in the pose of a man before a fire with a glass of port in one hand and a volume of Matthew Arnold's essays in the other.† (source)
- "You remember Matthew Arnold, don't you?"† (source)
- But at my age, with a snootful of English Lit. that made me as savagely demanding as Matthew Arnold in my insistence that the written word exemplify only the highest seriousness and truth, I treated these forlorn offspring of a thousand strangers' lonely and fragile desire with the magisterial, abstract loathing of an ape plucking vermin from his pelt.† (source)
- And Senator Einar once remarked: The late Matthew Arnold used to say that American public men lacked what he called "distinction."† (source)
- In a letter to his mother, Matthew Arnold described himself as having "less poetical sentiment than Tennyson and less intellectual vigour" than Browning, but thought he fused both strengths better than either of them.
- "Well, Frank Buckland was Matthew Arnold's father's sister's husband's brother's son, therefore, they were almost kin.† (source)
- This from the Requiescat of Matthew Arnold, an elegy for a woman's spirit, with its concluding line: "Tonight it doth inherit the vasty hall of Death."† (source)
- The great Doctor, whom of all men I most revere, swaying a little from side to side among the tables, the bound volumes, has dealt out Horace, Tennyson, the complete works of Keats and Matthew Arnold, suitably inscribed.† (source)
- Hayward talked of Richard Feverel and Madame Bovary, of Verlaine, Dante, and Matthew Arnold.† (source)
- And perhaps there are several poets not mentioned today whom it might be worth while considering—Keats, for instance, and Matthew Arnold and Rossetti and Swinburne.† (source)
- The University has a baseball field under glass; its buildings are measured by the mile; it hires hundreds of young Doctors of Philosophy to give rapid instruction in Sanskrit, navigation, accountancy, spectacle-fitting, sanitary engineering, Provencal poetry, tariff schedules, rutabaga-growing, motor-car designing, the history of Voronezh, the style of Matthew Arnold, the diagnosis of myohypertrophia kymoparalytica, and departmentstore advertising.† (source)
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- When he finds people chattering harmlessly about Anatole France and Nietzsche, he devastates them with Matthew Arnold, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and even Macaulay; and as he is devoutly religious at bottom, he first leads the unwary, by humorous irreverences, to wave popular theology out of account in discussing moral questions with him, and then scatters them in confusion by demanding whether the carrying out of his ideals of conduct was not the manifest object of God…† (source)
- Carlyle and Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, G. F. Watts, E. B. Jones, Dickens, Thackeray, they were hurried into the flames; Mr. Gladstone, John Bright, and Cobden; there was a moment's discussion about George Meredith, but Matthew Arnold and Emerson were given up cheerfully.† (source)
- 27 Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer.† (source)
- Like Homer, he is moderate in his use of metaphor and, in place of lyric speed, aims to reproduce a style that is, to cite Matthew Arnold's oft-approved adjectives, rapid, plain, direct in vocabulary and syntax, and noble.† (source)
- Both are masked with Matthew Arnold's face.† (source)
- It shows a sonority and a stateliness that you must go to the Latin of the Golden Age to match; its "highly charged and heavy-shotted" periods, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, serve admirably the obscurantist purposes of American pedagogy and of English parliamentary oratory and leader-writing; it is something for the literary artists of both countries to prove their skill upon by flouting it.† (source)
- A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms.† (source)
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