German lyrics and ballads: with a few epigrammatic poems

Forsideomslag
James Taft Hatfield
D. C. Heath, 1900 - 224 sider
 

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Side 201 - the pavement, worn by the footsteps of pilgrims like myself, covers the dominie's ashes. There is a rude figure carved upon it, at whose feet I traced out the cabalistic words ' Est, Est, Est.' The remainder of the inscription was illegible by the
Side 207 - Voilà de ces grands dieux la suprême justice. Jusques au bord du crime ils conduisent nos pas. Ils nous le font commettre et ne
Side 201 - renowned for a delicate Muscat wine, which bears the name of Est, and made a midnight pilgrimage to the tomb of the Bishop John Defoucris, who died a martyr to his love of this wine of
Side 205 - Concourt Chamisso was born in Champagne of a noble French family, but the troubles of the French revolution destroyed his home and exiled his family while he was still very young. The present poem is a touching reminiscence of the home from which he had been driven (Whitney).
Side 205 - Everybody remembers the story of the little Montague who was stolen and sold to the chimneysweep: how he could dimly remember lying in a beautiful chamber ; how he carried with him in all his drudgery the vision of a fair, sad mother's face that sought him everywhere in vain.
Side 189 - very daintily set to music by Mendelssohn (op. 19, no. 5). Though all its rimes are imperfect, the words of Professor Harris in regard to Goethe's poems are very applicable: "Seeming carelessness and inaccuracy are frequently the better art which refuses to neglect sense for sound or is cognizant of the higher harmonies of a language.

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