William Shakespeare, der Philosoph der sittlichen Weltordnung

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Wagner, 1879 - 370 Seiten
 

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Seite 77 - Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! HIP.
Seite 316 - I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 153 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
Seite 317 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature...
Seite 160 - s by action dignified. Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence, and medicine power:. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part, Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings encamp them still In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will ; And where the worser is predominant, Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
Seite 98 - ... master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy. For there are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read ABC may read our natures.
Seite 204 - as he advanced in literary fame, left his livings to the care of his curates," and 27* preferred " luxurious living with the great." The following charitable epitaph well describes such a man : " Wit, humor, genius, hadst thou, all agree ; One grain of wisdom had been worth the three." His patient courtship shows that he was truly in love with his wife. Their marriage, in the face of inauspicious circumstances, proves that they were both in earnest ; and his frank acknowledgment, a year after, that...
Seite 179 - What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter: Honour pricks me on. Yes, but how if honour prick me off, when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? No.
Seite 308 - Hie liber est, in quo quaerit sua dogmata quisque, Invenit in illo dogmata quisque sua, — es müsste wunderbar zugehen, wenn sicV in ihm nicht eine Weltanschauung fände, welche gar keiner theodicee bedarf.
Seite 232 - Athelstane is unnatural, and instead of adding to, takes from the interest of the story. These are trifling faults, and cannot affect the position and reputation of the mighty intellect from whose inexhaustible mines of •wealth the character of Rebecca was drawn. It was reserved for Sir Walter Scott to produce the grandest conception of a perfect and unselfish woman which exists in literature.

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