...and phrases which were only half understood. Arnold greatly valued and admired the influence s 241 of the French Academy: "a sovereign organ of the highest...authority in matters of intellectual tone and taste." Every one who knows what it is to take up a French book which has been couronn& by the Academy, knows...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...