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" ... \the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when... "
The North British Review - Page 169
1865
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Essays in Criticism, Issue 13

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...discovery; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds...divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most eifective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have...
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The Criterion: Or, The Test of Talk about Familiar Things

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Trent, River, Watershed (Staffordshire-North Lincolnshire, England) - 1866 - 388 pages
...happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, — by a certain order of ideas ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them...and attractive combinations, making beautiful works of them." It is a new and glorious era in our experience of books, when the vital significance of authorship...
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The Collector: Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors ...

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Arts - 1868 - 382 pages
...happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere — by a certain order of ideas; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them...and attractive combinations, making beautiful works of them.' It is a new and glorious era in our experience of books when the vital significance of authorship...
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The collector: essays on books, newspapers [&c.].

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 pages
...happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere — by a certain order of ideas ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them...and attractive combinations, making beautiful works of them.' It is a new and glorious era in our experience of books when the vital significance of authorship...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - Criticism - 1869 - 438 pages
...discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, — by a certain -order of ideas, when...short. But it must have ' the atmosphere, it must find itself_amjdst the order of_ ideas, in order to work freely; and these it is not so easy to command....
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...discovery; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds...beautiful works with them, in short. But it must have the atjnoSfjhere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work freely; and these it...
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The Principles of Criticism: An Introduction to the Study of Literature

William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1897 - 308 pages
...discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds...combinations — making beautiful works with them, in short.' 2 1 Irish Essays. Pref. to Poems, p. 388. 2 Essays in Criticism, I. p. 5. And, therefore, the present...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...its' gift lies in the faculty of being happily 10 inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds...combinations, — making beautiful works with them, in short. 15 But it must have the atmosphere, it must find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order .to work...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...certain intellectual and spiritual atmos\y phere. by a certain jarder of ideas, when it finds itself f in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combii nations, — making beautiful works with them, in short. \I5 But it must have the atmosphere,...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...certain order of ideas, when it. finds iT5e1f~ mthemj ot dealing^ divinely with these ideas, pTesefTF them in the most effective and attractive combinations, — making beautiful works with them, in short. 15 But it must have the atmosphere, Tfmust find itself amidst the order of ideas, in order to work...
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