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Another great English writer has said, "Words are worthless in describing a building which is absolutely faultless." And it taxed the talents of Sir Edwin Arnold, critic and poet, to frame in language an adequate picture of Arjamand's death couch. If a man possesses the sentiment of form and proportion, the Taj will satisfy him.
Matthew Arnold entered Rugby School in August, 1837, living under his father's roof at the School-house. He left Rugby for Oxford in June, 1841 But these larger views of education belong, after all, to the region of theory, and he never had the opportunity, except very indirectly, of putting them into practice.
The fine connecting link between the blindness of Blanche to the advantage of being married, and the blindness of humanity to the advantage of being in existence, though sufficiently perceptible no doubt to venerable Philosophy ripening in the sun, was absolutely invisible to Arnold.
"Hand those weapons over to me, do you hear?" He took several steps forward, when Dick brought him to a halt by raising one of the swords. It was a dramatic scene, of intense interest to all concerned. Arnold Baxter gazed at the armed youths in alarm, and Captain Langless grated his teeth. "This is foolishness," said the owner of the schooner, after a painful pause.
"She is here," cried Jack, darting forward. A few steps brought him to the door of the vault in which his mother was immured. It was locked. Jack had brought away the bunch of keys which he had taken from Quilt Arnold, but, none of them would open it. He was therefore obliged to use the iron bar, which he did with as much caution as circumstances would permit. At the first blow, Mrs.
Ruth had stolen down to keep Louis company, fearing he would feel lonesome in the changed aspect of the house. Arnold lay at full length on the lounge; Ruth swayed backward and forward in the rocker.
Fighting like a lion, he opposed the enemy's advance long enough to secure the escape of six of his vessels; and then, seeing his one consort forced to strike, he ran his own galley ashore and set her on fire. "Arnold," says the naval historian Cooper, "covered himself with glory, and his example seems to have been nobly followed by most of his officers and men.
Edward hesitated. His natural truthfulness obliged him to admit a knowledge he would gladly have been able to deny. "Yes, I have. But it's a long time ago. I guess I didn't pay very much attention." "There are not many people in Chicago who haven't heard of Arnold Jackson," said Mr Longstaffe bitterly, "and if there are they'll have no difficulty in finding someone who'll be glad to tell them.
To the overtures made, he answered that he was ready to come into them, provided the senate would first banish Arnold of Brescia out of Rome, abolish the republic, and, together with the citizens, return to their duty.
To-day we have been listening again, as it were, to the voice of Arnold, the great leader whom the Liberals lost in '42, Arnold was a devoutly orthodox believer, snatched from life in the very birth-hour of that New Learning of which we claim to be the children.
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