Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . e are inthe midst of a great crowd, we are apt to lose our mdivi-duality, and to be led along by its impulses. Our onlychance of acting wisely and reasonably is to stand apart,and reflect, or seek advice ; and to act upon our reflections or the counsel proffered. If it be our desire to es-cape the mischievous and deleterious influences of modernsensationalism, and to purify our taste with simple andbeautiful images; to broaden our sympathies by thestudy of our complex, many-sided nature; to weakenor eradicate petty and local prejud
Afternoon lectures on literature and art[Fourth series, 1866 . e are inthe midst of a great crowd, we are apt to lose our mdivi-duality, and to be led along by its impulses. Our onlychance of acting wisely and reasonably is to stand apart,and reflect, or seek advice ; and to act upon our reflections or the counsel proffered. If it be our desire to es-cape the mischievous and deleterious influences of modernsensationalism, and to purify our taste with simple andbeautiful images; to broaden our sympathies by thestudy of our complex, many-sided nature; to weakenor eradicate petty and local prejudices by associatingwith the recorded excellencies of all past times, letthe works of the Great Masters be more often in ourhands. Let us make of them familiar friends. Amental friendship may beget good moral effects, and, inan age of spurious sentiment and emasculate afi-ectation,we may learn from these incomparable teachers manythings concerning Manliness, Purity, Simplicity, andTruth. MATTHEW ARNOLDS POETRY. BY WILLIAM ALEXANDER, of Emly. ^<yG^.
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