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Side 234 - The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Side 268 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Side 192 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Side 226 - Ida, where the beautiful shepherd Paris was tending his flocks, and to him was committed the decision. The goddesses accordingly appeared before him. Juno promised him power and riches, Minerva glory and renown in war, and Venus the fairest of women for his wife, each attempting to bias his decision in her own favor.
Side 242 - Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Side 235 - Poculis accenditur animi lucerna, Cor imbutum nectare volat ad superna; Mihi sapit dulcius vinum in taberna Quam quod aqua miscuit prassulis pincerna.
Side xi - Selected and annotated, with a Study of the Development of Goethe's Art and View of Life in his Lyrical Poetry. By MARTIN SCHUTZE. Boston: Ginn and Co. 1916. 8vo. Ixxxi + 277 pp. This selection of Goethe's poems is arranged in a capricious order under such groupings as
Side xlviii - ... to a final and heroic resignation. This cry of an old man, who is done with the world, not through spiritual decrepitude but through the mere physical inadequacy of nature, is without a touch of disgusting or ludicrous sentimentality. It is not the voice of a morbid or unbecoming senile desire, but of the tragic rebellion of an unconquered spirit against the tyranny of earth. The immortality of the spirit shines forth from this poem with a noble and heartening force.
Side xxvii - ©gmont". „fflîaШеb" is a perfect spring song. All nature is radiant, loud with song and laughter, transfigured to the young lover whose heart is bursting with fervor and happiness as are the branches and bushes with buds and voices. The sentences are almost without structure.
Side xxvii - Here was a sentiment so young and strong and right that it swept aside every self-conscious smirk and simper, every mediocre qualm of gentility, every pose of superiority and disillusionment, and also every false etherealism and tissue-paper tenderness.