Studies, Stories, and MemoirsJ. R. Osgood, 1877 - 408 pages |
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... given her , contain- ing his autograph and the dramas he had written for her " Die Toni , " " der Grüne Domino , " and others . I exclaimed thoughtlessly , " O how can you part with it ? " and she replied , with a sweet seriousness ...
... given her , contain- ing his autograph and the dramas he had written for her " Die Toni , " " der Grüne Domino , " and others . I exclaimed thoughtlessly , " O how can you part with it ? " and she replied , with a sweet seriousness ...
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... given to his composition such a title as would have pitched the imagination of the listener at once upon the same key ? Mendelssohn himself has done this in the pieces which he has entitled " Overture to Melusina , " " Overture to the ...
... given to his composition such a title as would have pitched the imagination of the listener at once upon the same key ? Mendelssohn himself has done this in the pieces which he has entitled " Overture to Melusina , " " Overture to the ...
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... given me a friend , and I love the old fellow , though I cannot love his bull - dog manners , and worse than bull - dog prejudices . Were it possible to have of Goethe as universal , many - sided , and faithful a picture , it would be ...
... given me a friend , and I love the old fellow , though I cannot love his bull - dog manners , and worse than bull - dog prejudices . Were it possible to have of Goethe as universal , many - sided , and faithful a picture , it would be ...
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... given . He lived long enough to accomplish his own fame . He told the world all he chose the world to know ; and if not , is it for me- for me ! -to fill up the vacancy , by telling what , perhaps , he never meant to be told ? -what I ...
... given . He lived long enough to accomplish his own fame . He told the world all he chose the world to know ; and if not , is it for me- for me ! -to fill up the vacancy , by telling what , perhaps , he never meant to be told ? -what I ...
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... given , we must do the best we can for ourselves and for our sisterhood . The cruel prejudices which would have shut us out from nobler consolation and occupations have ceased in great part , and will soon be remembered only as the rude ...
... given , we must do the best we can for ourselves and for our sisterhood . The cruel prejudices which would have shut us out from nobler consolation and occupations have ceased in great part , and will soon be remembered only as the rude ...
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Page 39 - Und wenn der Mensch in seiner Qual verstummt, Gab mir ein Gott, zu sagen, wie ich leide.
Page 65 - He is made one with nature; there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird: He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 198 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Page 348 - He cannot give it, because it is not his own, — since what is dependent for its very existence on something in another can never become to him a possession ; nor can he justly withhold it, when the presence of merit claims it as a consequence. As praise, then, cannot be made a gift, so, neither, when not his due, can any man receive it : he may think he does, but he receives only words ; for desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. This...
Page 84 - Of troublous and distressed mortality, That thus make way unto the ugly Birth Of their own Sorrows, and do still beget Affliction upon Imbecility: Yet seeing thus the course of things must run, He looks thereon not strange, but as fore-done.
Page 226 - As she lay, till the day In the Bay of Biscay, O ! At length the wished-for morrow, Broke through the hazy sky, Absorbed in silent sorrow, Each heaved a bitter sigh ; The dismal wreck to view, Struck horror to the crew, As she lay, on that day, In the Bay of Biscay, O Her yielding timbers sever, Her pitchy seams are rent.
Page 346 - It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over Nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, when every feature is set the other way ; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance ; the legs shake with anger, when all above is calm.* 18.
Page 100 - While tens of thousands, thinking on the affray, Men unto whom sufficient for the day And minds not stinted or untilled are given, Sound, healthy Children of the God of Heaven, Are cheerful as the rising Sun in May. What do we gather hence but firmer faith That every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath...
Page 343 - Oh, who shall lightly say that fame Is nothing but an empty name Whilst in that sound there is a charm The nerves to brace, the heart to warm, As, thinking of the mighty dead. The young from slothful couch will start, And vow, with lifted hands outspread, Like them to act a noble part ? Oh, who shall lightly say that fame Is nothing but an empty name.
Page 330 - ... seemed specially to flow for every classic ruin over which we wandered. And when I recall some of our walks under the pines of the Villa Borghese, I am almost tempted to dream that I had once listened to Plato, in the groves of the Academy.