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" quite like the French academy, — a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognized authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we ought not to wish to have it." "
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - 1900 - 404 pages
...perhaps, such philological freaks as Mr. Forster's about the one primeval language. But an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognised authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we...
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Life in Poetry: Law in Taste: Two Series of Lectures Delivered in Oxford ...

William John Courthope - 1901 - 478 pages
...his arguments point to the foundation of an Academy in England, he concludes as follows: " An Academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognised authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we...
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Essays Literary & Critical

Matthew Arnold - 1909 - 406 pages
...or perhaps, such philological freaks as Mr Forster's about the one'primeval language. But an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognised authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we...
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A History of the French Academy, 16354-1910

Duncan Maclaren Robertson - 1910 - 428 pages
...in this country, and perhaps I shall hardly give him the one he expects. ... I think ... an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of...have, and perhaps we ought not to wish to have it." " To wind up this collection of opinions with one from the album of an unnamed philosopher and French...
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A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY

D. MACLAREN ROBERTSON - 1910 - 476 pages
...this country, and perhaps I shall hardly give him the one he expects. - . . I think . . - an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of...have, and perhaps we ought not to wish to have it.” To wind up this collection of opinions with one from the album of an unnamed philosopher and French...
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Essays,

Matthew Arnold - 1914 - 506 pages
...perhaps, such philological freaks as Mr. Forster's about the one primeval language. But an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognised authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we...
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Matthew Arnold

Hugh Kingsmill - 1928 - 358 pages
..."the weary Titan," could endure; so at the close of the essay he beats a decorous retreat: "An Academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion, a recognised authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps we...
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Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue

Donald David Stone - 1997 - 234 pages
...Academy, one that banishes the “provincial spirit” and guards against literary eccentricities. Such a “sovereign organ of the highest literary opinion,...intellectual tone and taste, we shall hardly have” in fact, as Arnold realizes; and, he adds, “perhaps we ought not to wish to have it” (257). But,...
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Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century ...

Geoffrey Cantor, Sally Shuttleworth - 2004 - 380 pages
...that of Berlin, for instance—we with time may, and probably shall, establish. . . . But an academy quite like the French Academy, a sovereign organ of...tone and taste, we shall hardly have, and perhaps ought not to wish to have. 15 Appleton and his colleagues have reimagined Arnolds idea of an academy...
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