...Henry Newman (1801-1890) 12. The Tamworth Reading Room', Discussions and Arguments (1872), pp. 254-305 'Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?' (Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, vol. x, p. 165). Matthew Arnold's analysis of his society...

...renew what for us was the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...him still, saying: 'After the fever of life, after weariness and sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing,...

...renew what was for us the most national and natural institution in the world, the Church of England. Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were 223 a religious music - sweet, subtle, mournful? I seem to hear him still . , . 1 And so, in reflecting...

...many years later, he described the effect this had on him. 'Who could resist the charm', he writes, 'of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim...music, - subtle, sweet, mournful. I seem to hear him still.'38 Many have treated this as recounting simply an aesthetic experience, but it was clearly more...

...many years later, he described the effect this had on him. 'Who could resist the charm', he writes, 'of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim...were a religious music, - subtle, sweet, mournful. 1 seem to hear him still.'38 Many have treated this as recounting simply an aesthetic experience, but...

...our youth it has no longer. . . . Newman . . . was preaching in St Mary's pulpit every Sunday. . . . Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...were a religious music —subtle, sweet, mournful?" 64 One interesting fact that emerged from the conflict was that Kingsley himself, as a young man, had...

..."aural image."40 Perhaps the bestknown is Matthew Arnold's tribute to Newman in Discourses in America: Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...thoughts which were a religious music, — subtle, sweet, mournful?41 The "eloquence of saints" (Idea, 331) of which Matthew Arnold speaks is also the focus...

...and great influence, famously remembered years later by Matthew Arnold: "the charm of that spritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through...Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most enchanting of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music —...

...denominations other than Anglicans to hold services in its chapel. CHAPTER THREE Cardinal Newmans Oxford "Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition...afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's?" John Henry Newman (1801-90) was the most charismatic British churchman of the nineteenth century and...

...Several descriptions of his preaching survuv, of which the most famous is Matthew Arnold's: ' llho could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition,...Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entranting of voices, breaking the silente with usirds and thoughts which were a religious music, -...