The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Literature and Dogma’ (1873) ch. 1
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
‘Literature and Dogma’ (1873) ch. 1
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
‘Literature and Dogma’ (1873) ch. 1
But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet
reasonableness of Jesus.
‘Literature and Dogma’ (1873) ch. 12
So we have the Philistine of genius in religion—Luther; the Philistine of genius in politics—
Cromwell; the Philistine of genius in
literature—Bunyan.
‘Mixed Essays’ (1879) ‘Lord Falkland’
Wordsworth says somewhere that wherever Virgil seems to have composed
‘with his eye on the object’, Dryden fails to render him. Homer invariably composes ‘with his
eye on the object’, whether the object be a moral or a material one: Pope composes with his eye
on his style, into which he translates his object, whatever it is.
‘On Translating Homer’ (1861) Lecture 1
Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of
Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the
endeavours, in all branches of knowledge—theology, philosophy, history, art, science—to see the
object as in itself it really is.
‘On Translating Homer’ (1861) Lecture 2
He [the translator] will find one English book and one only, where, as in the Iliad itself, perfect
plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and that book is the Bible.
‘On Translating Homer’ (1861) Lecture 3
Nothing has raised more questioning among my critics than these words—noble, the grand
style....I think it will be found that the grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically
gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
‘On Translating Homer’ ‘Last Words’ (1862)
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it
as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
In G. W. E. Russell ‘Collections and Recollections’ (1898) ch. 13
1.96 S. J. Arnold
England, home and beauty.
‘The Death of Nelson’ (1811 song) from ‘The Americans. A Comic Opera’
1.97 Dr Thomas Arnold 1795-1842
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys
I can scarcely hope to make.