 Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections : to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests...  THE PAGEANT OF GREECE - Side 104af R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests...in proportion to its greatness and to its passion. A great human action of a thousand years ago is more interesting to it than a smaller human action... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1854 - 304 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests them is permanent and the same THE FmST EDITION. XV also. The modernness or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests...in proportion to its greatness and to its passion. A great human action of a thousand years ago is more interesting to it than a smaller human action... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1857 - 344 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests...for! poetical representation ; this depends upon its in-| herent qualities. To the elementary part of our nature, to our passions, that which is great and... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 sider
...subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. The modernness or antiquity of action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness...qualities. To the elementary part of our nature, to our pas-? 528 Living English Poets. [Feb. sions, that which is great and passionate is eternally interesting... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 332 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests...in proportion to its greatness and to its passion. A great human action of a thousand years ago is more interesting to it than a smaller human action... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 534 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of tune. These feelings are permanent and the same ; that which interests...in proportion to its greatness and to its passion. A great human action of a thousand years ago is more interesting to it than a smaller human action... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 540 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests...in proportion to its greatness and to its passion. A great human action of a thousand years ago is more interesting to it than a smaller human action... | |
 | 1914 - 970 sider
...pontifical approbation. He annotates — ponderously correct: The modernncss or antiquity of an action has nothing to do with its fitness for poetical representation; this depends upon its inherent qualities. . . . Poetical works belong to the domain of our permanent passions: let them interest these and the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 570 sider
...elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the name also. The modernncss or antiquity of an action, therefore, has nothing to do with its fitness... | |
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