The Foreign Quarterly Review, 36. köideTreuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1846 |
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... manner to this worthy theme ; no writer that has handled this particular epoch with the same manly inde- pendence , vigorous sympathy , and decided historic talent , that so favourably distinguishes Menzel's general History of the Ger ...
... manner to this worthy theme ; no writer that has handled this particular epoch with the same manly inde- pendence , vigorous sympathy , and decided historic talent , that so favourably distinguishes Menzel's general History of the Ger ...
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... manner in which this terrible war was to be fought by the Prussians . It was a day of fearful rain : flint and gunpowder could not be used ; it came literally to a murderous grapple of man with man : and with the butt - end of their ...
... manner in which this terrible war was to be fought by the Prussians . It was a day of fearful rain : flint and gunpowder could not be used ; it came literally to a murderous grapple of man with man : and with the butt - end of their ...
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... manners and customs ; and of geography and chronology . The first are often inevitable . It is such an ana- chronism to make Achilles , or any Greek , a lover . Where pas- sion and character are concerned , the poet must be modern , for ...
... manners and customs ; and of geography and chronology . The first are often inevitable . It is such an ana- chronism to make Achilles , or any Greek , a lover . Where pas- sion and character are concerned , the poet must be modern , for ...
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... manner , but the true economy of art renders him superfluous . As the piece now stands , by the non - introduction of Icilius , Virginie has a grief the more , and a protector the less . Fabius is altogether a mistake ; and , curiously ...
... manner , but the true economy of art renders him superfluous . As the piece now stands , by the non - introduction of Icilius , Virginie has a grief the more , and a protector the less . Fabius is altogether a mistake ; and , curiously ...
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... manners no less striking than are re- marked at the present day in those of Old Spain . These are partly called forth by climate and situation , but their most fertile source is no doubt the greater or lesser proportion in which the ...
... manners no less striking than are re- marked at the present day in those of Old Spain . These are partly called forth by climate and situation , but their most fertile source is no doubt the greater or lesser proportion in which the ...
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Page 273 - have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour wait the wedded dame; August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all these views remove : Fame, wealth, and honour, what are you to love?
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Page 275 - Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day When victims at yon altar's foot we lay? Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell? As with cold lips I kiss'd the sacred veil, The shrines all trembled, and the lamps grew pale. Heaven scarce believed the conquest it surveyed, And saints with wonder heard the vows I made.
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Page 118 - In this family, Fichte received his first instruction in the languages of antiquity, in which, however, he was left much to his own efforts, seldom receiving what might be called a regular lesson. This plan, though it undoubtedly invigorated and sharpened his faculties, left him imperfectly acquainted with grammar, and retarded, in some measure, his subsequent progress at
Page 398 - on the same harpsichord ; but she is now at her summit, which is not marvellous; ' and,' says the writer of the letter, ' if I may judge of the music which I heard of his composition in the orchestra he is one further instance of early fruit being more extraordinary than excellent.