 | 1890 - 882 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1891 - 890 psl.
...Matthew Arnold, too, experienced the spell. " Who could resist," he says in a lecture on Emerson, " the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in...with words and thoughts which were a religious music — subtile, sweet, mournful." To Arnold, he was a man " never to be named by a son of Oxford without... | |
 | 1927 - 554 psl.
...words in tribute to the Tractarian mystic which he wrote towards the end of his life. "Who," he asked, "could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...were a religious music — subtle, sweet, mournful ? Happy the man who in that susceptible season of youth hears such voices! They are a possession to... | |
 | Oliver Throck Morton - 1892 - 236 psl.
...the charm of that spiritual apparition, 1 Henry Jephson, The Platform : Its Rise and Progress, p. 4. gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles...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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 psl.
...now under discussion, is, therefore, very slight indeed. in one of his most beautiful prose passages, "the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in...still saying — ' After the fever of life, after weariness and sickness, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and succeeding,... | |
 | Clement King Shorter - 1897 - 248 psl.
...like his father before him, one of the leaders of the movement which Newman has hated so intensely, " who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...thoughts which were a religious music — subtle, 107 sweet, mournful? I seem to hear him still, saying: 'After the fever of life, after wearinesses... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 psl.
...renew what was for us the most national and 20 natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the 25 silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful ? I seem... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 psl.
...of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the 25 silence with words and thoughts which were a religious...hear him still, saying : "After the fever of life, aftet wearinesses and sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1899 - 412 psl.
...whether through their fault or mine, said much to me. Here is Mat Arnold's description of Newman : — "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...aisles of St. Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, ntrancing i oughts whii iful ? I see life, after v, dings, languc ; after all t unhealthy st; : white... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1899 - 396 psl.
...whether through their fault or mine, said much to me. Here is Mat Arnold's description of Newman : — in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the 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 wearinesses... | |
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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... 
