Die hauptströmungen der litteratur des neunzehnten jahrhunderts: Vorlesungen, gehalten an der Kopenhagener universität, Volumes 3-4

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F. Duncker, 1874

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Page 310 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Page 15 - Having quitted the Borders, to seek new renown, Is coming, by long Quarto stages, to Town ; And beginning with ROKEBY (the job's sure to pay) Means to do all the Gentlemen's Seats on the way. Now, the Scheme is (though none of our hackneys can beat him) To start a fresh Poet through Highgate to meet him ; Who, by means of quick proofs — no revises — long coaches — May do a few Villas, before Sc — TT approaches — Indeed, if our Pegasus be not curst shabby, He'll reach, without found'ring,...
Page 286 - Though tyrants watch over her tears as they start, Close, close by the side of that Hero she'll set thee, Embalm'd in the innermost shrine of her heart.
Page 234 - Oh, dry your eyes! For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies — Shed no tear. Overhead! look overhead! 'Mong the blossoms white and red — Look up, look up. I flutter now On this flush pomegranate bough.
Page 152 - She whipped two female prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Page 350 - Français, que Reims a réunis, Criez : Montjoie et Saint-Denis ! On a refait la sainte ampoule, Et, comme au temps de nos aïeux, Des passereaux lâchés en foule Dans l'église volent joyeux. D'un joug brisé ces vains présages Font sourire sa majesté, Le peuple...
Page 351 - Dissipez seuls l'ennui mortel : Vous pourriez faire un sacrilège En voltigeant sur cet autel. Des bourreaux sont les sentinelles Que pose ici la piété. Le peuple crie: Oiseaux, nous envions vos ailes; Gardez bien, gardez bien votre liberté.
Page 350 - On l'habille, on le baise, on l'huile, Puis au bruit des hymnes sacrés, II met la main sur l'Évangile. Son confesseur lui dit : « Jurez ! Rome, que l'article concerne.
Page 152 - AGAINST THE KING, AND SAT IN JUDGMENT ON HIM ; for his ardent mind Shaped goodliest plans of happiness on earth, And peace and liberty. Wild dreams! but such As Plato loved ; such as with holy zeal Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile From man withheld, even to the latter days When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd!
Page 252 - Ever glorious Grattan ! the best of the good ! So simple in heart, so sublime in the rest! With all which Demosthenes wanted endued, And his rival or victor in all he possess'd.

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