121 ordspråk av Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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France famed in all great arts, in none supreme
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Friends who set forth at our side, / Falter, are lost in the storm. / We, we only, are left!
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From whose floor the new-bathed stars / Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.
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Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill.
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Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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He [Chaucer] lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of their virtue.
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He bears the seed of ruin in himself.
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He never spoke out.
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He went; his piping took a troubled sound / Of storms that rage outside our happy ground.
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He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the Iliad itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
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