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Matthew Arnold est un poète et critique anglais.

✵ 24. décembre 1822 – 15. avril 1888
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Matthew Arnold: 166 citations0 J'aime

Matthew Arnold: Citations en anglais

“Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there!—
Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim,
These brambles pale with mist engarlanded,
That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him;
To a boon southern country he is fled,
And now in happier air,
Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine
(And purer or more subtle soul than thee,
I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see)
Within a folding of the Apennine.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St. 18
Thyrsis (1866)

“Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?
He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men,
Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen,
And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind.”

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"To a Friend" http://www.poetry-online.org/arnold_to_a_friend.htm (1849), line 1

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

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The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,
Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure,
Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. — Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,
Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.”

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"Shakespeare" (1849)

“Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.”

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Matthew Arnold The Last Word

St. 2
The Last Word (1867)

“How fair a lot to fill
Is left to each man still.”

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"A Summer Night," Poems: Second Series, (1855), last stanza http://books.google.com/books?id=IzpcAAAAcAAJ&q=%22How+fair+a+lot+to+fill+Is+left+to+each+man+still%22&pg=PA210#v=onepage

“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.”

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Heinrich Heine, p. 144
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge — theology, philosophy, history, art, science — to see the object as in itself it really is.”

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Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer

On Translating Homer (1861)

“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.”

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St. 21
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Her cabin’d, ample Spirit,
It flutter’d and fail’d for breath.
To-night it doth inherit
The vasty Hall of Death.”

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"Requiescat" (1853), st. 4

“Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”

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"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" (1852), stanza 1

“Where great whales come sailing by,
Sail and sail, with unshut eye,
Round the world for ever and aye?
When did music come this way?
Children dear, was it yesterday?”

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St. 3
The Forsaken Merman (1849)

“Hither and thither spins
The wind-borne mirroring soul,
A thousand glimpses wins,
And never sees a whole.”

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Matthew Arnold livre Empedocles on Etna

Act I, sc. ii
Empedocles on Etna (1852)

“Still nursing the unconquerable hope,
Still clutching the inviolable shade,
With a free, onward impulse brushing through,
By night, the silver’d branches of the glade.”

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St. 22
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Why faintest thou! I wander’d till I died.
Roam on! The light we sought is shining still.
Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill,
Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St, 24
Thyrsis (1866)

“Physician of the Iron Age,
Goethe has done his pilgrimage.
He took the suffering human race,
He read each wound, each weakness clear —
And struck his finger on the place,
And said — Thou ailest here, and here.”

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St. 3
Memorial Verses (1852)

“The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.”

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Matthew Arnold livre Culture and Anarchy

Preface
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.”

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Matthew Arnold livre Culture and Anarchy

Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light

“There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.”

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The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.”

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Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (12 February 1853)

“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.”

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Preface to God and the Bible (1875)

“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”

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St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)

“Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe,
Returning home on summer-nights, have met
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe,
Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet,
As the punt’s rope chops round.”

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St. 8
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.”

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Heinrich Heine, p. 146
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.”

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On Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

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Civilization in the United States (1888), p. 177

“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?”

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Joseph Butler, Human Nature and Other Sermons, "Sermon VII" as quoted in Arnold's "St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870).
Misattributed

“Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.”

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" Shakespeare http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/marnold/bl-marn-shakes.htm" (1849, st. 1)

“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.”

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"Schools and Universities on the Continent" (1868)