The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 253
... reader would never think of buying , and which yet are shot upon us now in pro- fusion by the lending - libraries . Mr. Froude says , again , that new books are not the best books , and that old books , which are best , are to be bought ...
... reader would never think of buying , and which yet are shot upon us now in pro- fusion by the lending - libraries . Mr. Froude says , again , that new books are not the best books , and that old books , which are best , are to be bought ...
Page 387
... readers such as I have in view hardly ever understand , and are more distracted than helped by . So one might hope to ... reader and throw- ing him out , will often , as I have said , spoil a whole chapter for him ; and there are many ...
... readers such as I have in view hardly ever understand , and are more distracted than helped by . So one might hope to ... reader and throw- ing him out , will often , as I have said , spoil a whole chapter for him ; and there are many ...
Page 395
... reader's mind , and has left firmly fixed there . It is in deference to these pre - established sentiments in the reader that we prefer , so long as the sense is well preserved , for any famous passage of our chapters which is cited in ...
... reader's mind , and has left firmly fixed there . It is in deference to these pre - established sentiments in the reader that we prefer , so long as the sense is well preserved , for any famous passage of our chapters which is cited in ...
Contents
THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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