Hours with German Classics: From the Nibelungenlied to Heinrich HeineLittle, Brown, 1886 - 531 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abdera acquaintance ancient appears beautiful Berlin brother called century character Christian Church composition criticism dear death Devil drama earth English Erasmus essay fable faith father Faust feeling French Friedrich Schlegel genius German literature Getae Giulietta Goethe Goethe's Greek Hagen hand heart heaven Heine Herder hero Herr Herr Pastor honor human Iliad intellectual King Klopstock Kriemhild labor landsknechte language Latin learned Leipsic less letter literary live looking-glass Lord Luther Marinelli mediæval Mendelssohn Mephistopheles mind Minnesingers modern moral Nathan the Wise nations nature never Nibelungenlied Nicolai night Novalis passion philosophy poem poet poet's poetic poetry prince Roman Saladin satire says scene Schiller Schlegel seems shadow Shakspeare Siegfried song soul Spikher spirit thee things thou thought tion translation Ulfilas University verse Weimar Wieland wife word writings wrote youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 61 - A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : 'O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on! the prize is near.
Página 193 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
Página 61 - With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision! Blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides, And star-like mingles with the stars. When on my goodly charger borne Thro...
Página 54 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone, And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids; O'er England's abbeys bends the sky, As on its friends, with kindred eye; For out of thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air; And Nature gladly gave them place.
Página 435 - Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire: the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.
Página 286 - I will with joy receive him as a god, Prepare his couch myself, beside our hearth Invite him to a seat, and only ask Touching thy fate and thee. Oh, may the gods To thee the merited reward impart Of all thy kindness and benignity! Farewell!
Página 193 - I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion is founded ori Faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is, by no means, fitted to endure.
Página 383 - Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end.
Página 79 - He that plants is nothing, and he that watereth is nothing; but God that giveth the increase.
Página 503 - Heine is noteworthy, because he is the most important German successor and continuator of Goethe in Goethe's most important line of activity. And which of Goethe's lines of activity is this ? — His line of activity as " a soldier in the war of liberation of humanity.