A Short History of German LiteratureG.I. Jones, 1879 - 628 sider |
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... comes unexpectedly upon an enemy far more powerful , a vast migrating people , whose men are of huge strength and fierce courage , whose women are scarcely less formidable , whose children are white - haired , like people grown aged ...
... comes unexpectedly upon an enemy far more powerful , a vast migrating people , whose men are of huge strength and fierce courage , whose women are scarcely less formidable , whose children are white - haired , like people grown aged ...
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... comes off conqueror from the corpse - heaped battle - fields , and Rome has a respite . Within half a century they grapple with the legionaries again , who this time have in their van the sternest heart and strongest head of his great ...
... comes off conqueror from the corpse - heaped battle - fields , and Rome has a respite . Within half a century they grapple with the legionaries again , who this time have in their van the sternest heart and strongest head of his great ...
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... come from the tough race which Karl the Great had found it such a task to subdue . There are great names in the time during which the Saxon dynasty is powerful ; so too among the Franconian princes who succeed them . As re- gards the ...
... come from the tough race which Karl the Great had found it such a task to subdue . There are great names in the time during which the Saxon dynasty is powerful ; so too among the Franconian princes who succeed them . As re- gards the ...
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... comes a sense of the grace and majesty they are overwhelming , and at length they stand before the ruins they have made , awe - struck.1 For a next step they reverently appropriate the culture and faith of the empire they have ...
... comes a sense of the grace and majesty they are overwhelming , and at length they stand before the ruins they have made , awe - struck.1 For a next step they reverently appropriate the culture and faith of the empire they have ...
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... come . We leave behind the Old High German , which has been the vehicle of the earliest literature ; the Middle High German has supplanted it . In place of the few memorials nearly valueless except for historical and linguistic purposes ...
... come . We leave behind the Old High German , which has been the vehicle of the earliest literature ; the Middle High German has supplanted it . In place of the few memorials nearly valueless except for historical and linguistic purposes ...
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Side 368 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her ? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her...
Side 197 - And though this world, with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us; We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us: The Prince of Darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, For lo! his doom is sure, One little word shall fell him.
Side 197 - A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe; His craft and power are great, And, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.
Side 360 - Rauch's statuette. His complexion was very bright, clear, and rosy. His eyes extraordinarily dark, piercing, and brilliant. I felt quite afraid before them, and recollect comparing them to the eyes of the hero of a certain romance called Melmoth the Wanderer...
Side 575 - ... it. In fact, under the rude yet also artificial character of newspaper style, each separate monster period is a vast arch, which, not receiving its keystone, not being locked into self-supporting cohesion, until you nearly reach its close, imposes of necessity upon the unhappy reader all the onus of its ponderous weight through the main process of its construction.
Side 553 - They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided.
Side 368 - Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
Side 333 - The features were large and liberally cut, as in the fine sweeping lines of Greek Art. The brow lofty and massive, from beneath which shone large lustrous brown eyes of marvellous beauty, their pupils being of almost unexampled size; the slightly aquiline...
Side 272 - Laokoon,' which transported us from the region of miserable observation into the free fields of thought. The so long misunderstood ut pictura pocsis was at once set aside; the difference between art and poetry made clear; the peaks of both appeared separated, however near each other might be their bases. The former had to confine itself...
Side 193 - It shall be so; go and write him so.' "Therefore, my dear little son Johnny, learn and pray away! and tell Lippus and Jost, too, that they must learn and pray. And then you shall come to the garden together. Herewith I commend thee to Almighty God. And greet Aunt Lehne, and give her a kiss for my sake. "Thy dear father, "Anno 1530.