A Guide to German Literature: Or, Manual to Facilitate an Acquaintance with the German Classic Authors, Band 2J. J. Guillaume, 1850 |
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Seite 466 - It will be my endeavour to relate the history of the people as well as the history of the government, to trace the progress of useful arid ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations...
Seite 466 - I should very imperfectly execute the task which I have undertaken if I were merely to treat of battles and sieges, of the rise and fall of administrations, of intrigues in the palace, and of debates in the parliament.
Seite 102 - The life of the former had made a deep impression upon me. The rough and honourable character of this independent man, at a period of savage anarchy, inspired me with the liveliest interest. In the popular drama of which Faust is the hero, I found more than one tone which vibrated strongly in my very soul. I also had passed through the circle of the sciences, and had early convinced myself of their vanity. All my endeavours to find felicity in life had hitherto proved fruitless. I delighted in meditating...
Seite 292 - In a few pages we reap the fruit of the labour of a whole life ; every opinion formed by the author, every epithet given to the writers of whom he speaks, is beautiful and just, concise and animated.
Seite 292 - ... there read to a brilliant audience his Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, which, on their publication, were hailed throughout Europe with marked approbation, and which will, unquestionably, transmit his name to the latest posterity. His object in these Lectures is both to take a rapid survey of dramatic productions of different ages and nations, and to develope and determine the general ideas by which their true artistic value must be judged. In his travels with Madame de Stael he was introduced...
Seite 100 - This study of the sacred books, concentrated on one single point all my scattered acquirements — all the powers of my understanding and judgment. I am unable to describe the sensation of internal peace which I experienced, when I could penetrate into the profound meaning of these wondrous writings. When my too active imagination led me astray — when fable and history, mythology and religion, mingling in my mind, left my ideas confused...
Seite 179 - Korner was born at Dresden on the 23rd of September, 1791. His father was the intimate associate of Schiller, who composed his tragedy of ' Don Carlos' at a country house belonging to his friend in the pleasant village of Loschwitz, near Dresden.
Seite 60 - ... no vital remedy had been applied to the roots of the disorder, much diseased and inflammable matter yet remained. Still the revolt of Bohemia was not the only cause or subject of a war, which some historians have considered rather as a complicated series of wars, partially varying in their object. The whole country — the age itself seemed involved in warfare ; and war appeared as the permanent policy, the ruling spirit, the inveterate habit, and natural necessity of mankind.