 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."  Science - Page 99edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Duncan Maclaren Robertson - 1910 - 426 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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