Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1882 |
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... body . There is nothing distinctively Aryan in the belief of the journey after death . Every nation has pos- sessed it , and associated it with the journey of the sun to his place of setting . But the creed has taken different forms in ...
... body . There is nothing distinctively Aryan in the belief of the journey after death . Every nation has pos- sessed it , and associated it with the journey of the sun to his place of setting . But the creed has taken different forms in ...
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... body of Baldur himself . And when Nanna his wife saw it , her heart brake with grief , and she too was placed upon the pile . Then Thor hallowed it with his hammer , and setting fire to the ship they pushed it out to sea . Thence it ...
... body of Baldur himself . And when Nanna his wife saw it , her heart brake with grief , and she too was placed upon the pile . Then Thor hallowed it with his hammer , and setting fire to the ship they pushed it out to sea . Thence it ...
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... bodies were miraculously conveyed by water . Panzer " Bayarische Sagen u Bräuche , " I , 222. Simrock " Handb . der D. Myth . , " p . 285 . Sigmund takes the body of Sinfiotli to the sea - shore and sets it afloat . Sæm . 170 . 52 Grimm ...
... bodies were miraculously conveyed by water . Panzer " Bayarische Sagen u Bräuche , " I , 222. Simrock " Handb . der D. Myth . , " p . 285 . Sigmund takes the body of Sinfiotli to the sea - shore and sets it afloat . Sæm . 170 . 52 Grimm ...
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... body of very learned , erudite men of letters , as deeply read as the best of our University Professors ; a voluminous literature in poetry , history , science , and fiction ; and a succession of talented statesmen , of whom any nation ...
... body of very learned , erudite men of letters , as deeply read as the best of our University Professors ; a voluminous literature in poetry , history , science , and fiction ; and a succession of talented statesmen , of whom any nation ...
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... body of the ' Ulemā , ―the Learned ( scil . , in the Law ) , who are lawyers ( not priests - for there are no priests in Islām , where everyone is a priest unto himself ) , to wear " shawl " turbans . They generally wind white muslin ...
... body of the ' Ulemā , ―the Learned ( scil . , in the Law ) , who are lawyers ( not priests - for there are no priests in Islām , where everyone is a priest unto himself ) , to wear " shawl " turbans . They generally wind white muslin ...
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Seite 178 - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
Seite 178 - But the knowledge of nature is only half the task of a poet: he must be acquainted likewise with all the modes of life. His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition ; observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind, as they are modified by various institutions and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Seite 742 - Fates, — the Past, Present, Future ; watering its roots from the Sacred Well. Its ' boughs,' with their buddings and disleafings, — events, things suffered, things done, catastrophes, — stretch through all lands and times. Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word ? Its boughs are Histories of Nations. The rustle of it is the noise of Human Existence, onwards from of old.
Seite 176 - Poetry has been to me its own * exceeding great reward:' it has soothed my afflictions 5 it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the Good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Seite 173 - Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Seite 174 - No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Seite 173 - Poetry turns all things to loveliness ; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed ; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change ; it subdues to union, under its light yoke, all irreconcilable things.
Seite 177 - I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation.
Seite 177 - All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful to study, and every country which I have surveyed has contributed something to my poetical powers." "In so wide a survey," said the prince, "you must surely have left much unobserved. I have lived, till now, within the circuit of these mountains and yet cannot walk abroad without the sight of something which I had never beheld before or never heeded.
Seite 95 - ON THE HISTORY, SYSTEM, AND VARIETIES OF TURKISH POETRY. Illustrated by Selections in the Original and in English Paraphrase, with a Notice of the Islamic Doctrine of the Immortality of Woman's Soul in the Future State. By JW Redhouse, Esq., MRAS 8vo, pp.