Classic German Course in EnglishChautauqua Press, 1887 - 327 Seiten |
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... kind of illogical , illusive association with the lengthened life - time and length- ened productive activity of Goethe himself , the space between whose birth and whose death spans well - nigh the entire chief literary history of ...
... kind of illogical , illusive association with the lengthened life - time and length- ened productive activity of Goethe himself , the space between whose birth and whose death spans well - nigh the entire chief literary history of ...
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... kind of literature in which German prose and German verse find common ground , and in which German literature easily surpasses every other national literature in the world . We refer to the literature of folk - lore : the traditionary ...
... kind of literature in which German prose and German verse find common ground , and in which German literature easily surpasses every other national literature in the world . We refer to the literature of folk - lore : the traditionary ...
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... kind of literature in which Germans have always been singularly weak , and that is the literature of public discourse , eloquence , oratory . Whether it is due to fault in the language , to defect in the national genius , or to ...
... kind of literature in which Germans have always been singularly weak , and that is the literature of public discourse , eloquence , oratory . Whether it is due to fault in the language , to defect in the national genius , or to ...
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... kind . Never , on behalf of any other coeval foreign literature than the German , has there been exercised among us a championship so importunate and so influential . Coleridge and Carlyle , by eminence , in En- gland ; in America ...
... kind . Never , on behalf of any other coeval foreign literature than the German , has there been exercised among us a championship so importunate and so influential . Coleridge and Carlyle , by eminence , in En- gland ; in America ...
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... kind . Such was Luther , the man . We have here , however , to deal with Luther , not in these larger aspects of his genius and his achievement , but rather as a German simply ; and , even more narrowly still , as a German producer of ...
... kind . Such was Luther , the man . We have here , however , to deal with Luther , not in these larger aspects of his genius and his achievement , but rather as a German simply ; and , even more narrowly still , as a German producer of ...
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Abbadona admirable beauty Brier-rose brother brothers Grimm character Christian classic Course in English criticism divine earth Eckbert emperor expression eyes fame father Faust feel French genius German literary German literature give Goethe Goethe's Greek Course hand happy hath heart heaven Heine Heine's Herder Hermann and Dorothea hymn idea imagination Iphigenia Klopstock Körner Laocoön Latin less Lessing's letters living looked Luther Margaret Messiah mind Moses Mendelssohn Nathan the Wise never night noble Novalis o'er Oberon once perhaps play poem poet poetry Preparatory Greek prince Prince Elector prose readers Richter Roman romanticist Saladin says Schiller seems sentiment Sherasmin sing Sir Hüon song soul spirit stanzas story sweet tears thee thing thou thought tion translation truth Undine verse Wallenstein Weimar Werther whole Wieland Wilhelm words write wrote young youth
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Seite 162 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Seite 260 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Seite 260 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Seite 175 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She .was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And, for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went...
Seite 45 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan; Sky loured, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal Sin Original...
Seite 184 - THOU that from the heavens art, Every pain and sorrow stillest, And the doubly wretched heart Doubly with refreshment fillest, I am weary with contending ! Why this rapture and unrest ? Peace descending Come, ah, come into my breast I n.
Seite 260 - For fable is Love's world, his home, his birthplace Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine.
Seite 262 - From the highest, As from the vilest thing of every day He learns to wean himself; for the strong hours Conquer him. Yet I feel what I have lost In him. The bloom is vanished from my life. For...
Seite 31 - And were this world all devils o'er, And watching to devour us, We lay it not to heart so sore; Not they can overpower us. And let the prince of ill Look grim as e'er he will, He harms us not a whit: For why? His doom is writ; A word shall quickly slay him.
Seite 31 - A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon ; He'll help us clear from all the ill That hath us now o'ertaken. The ancient Prince of Hell Hath risen with purpose fell ; Strong mail of Craft and Power He weareth in this hour, On Earth is not his fellow.