 They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting their age, nor of the coming Poet ; all this, they know, is the mere delirium of vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which...  Literary Studies and Reviews - Page 216by Richard Aldington - 1924 - 246 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...by inflating themselves with a belief in the preeminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...by inflating themselves with a belief in the preeminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Copyright - 1882 - 344 pages
...by inflating themselves with a belief in the preeminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 534 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 540 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity; their business is not to praise their age, bat to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1896 - 380 pages
...by inflating themselves with a belief in the preeminent importance and greatness of their own times* They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1901 - 532 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity . their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 472 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and greatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...inflating themselves with a belief in the pre-eminent importance and gieatness of their own times. They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting...vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling. If asked... | |
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