An Introduction to a Course of German Literature: In Lectures to the Students of the University of LondonJ. Taylor, 1830 - 157 pages |
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... poetical enthusiasm , and thereby conquers it : yet moderation and sobriety of mind , expressed by the Greek word " sophrosyne , " was a leading feature in the Grecian character ; and , should this appear incompatible with the state of ...
... poetical enthusiasm , and thereby conquers it : yet moderation and sobriety of mind , expressed by the Greek word " sophrosyne , " was a leading feature in the Grecian character ; and , should this appear incompatible with the state of ...
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... poetical tendency . The Romans , before their ac- quaintance with the Greeks , had made but slight progress in ... poetical . Religion and politics were the two great levers , which raised the Romans to the summit of 18 INTRODUCTION TO A ...
... poetical tendency . The Romans , before their ac- quaintance with the Greeks , had made but slight progress in ... poetical . Religion and politics were the two great levers , which raised the Romans to the summit of 18 INTRODUCTION TO A ...
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... poetical colouring , yet this , as we shall see , could have no influence on the popular character . Poets , indeed , shone forth , like stars , to cheer the gloomy night ; yet , I think , we do them no injustice , when styling them ...
... poetical colouring , yet this , as we shall see , could have no influence on the popular character . Poets , indeed , shone forth , like stars , to cheer the gloomy night ; yet , I think , we do them no injustice , when styling them ...
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... moral state of a people - presents but too faithful a picture of the depravity prevailing at this period . ---- Read the works of Sallust , Suetonius , and Tacitus ; compare them with the poetical ef- fusions GERMAN LITERATURE . 23.
... moral state of a people - presents but too faithful a picture of the depravity prevailing at this period . ---- Read the works of Sallust , Suetonius , and Tacitus ; compare them with the poetical ef- fusions GERMAN LITERATURE . 23.
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... poetical ef- fusions of Juvenal , Martial , and others ; and every where you will find an expression of indignant sorrow for the fallen glory and vanished spirit of degraded Rome ; a bitter irony which , in some instances , under a ...
... poetical ef- fusions of Juvenal , Martial , and others ; and every where you will find an expression of indignant sorrow for the fallen glory and vanished spirit of degraded Rome ; a bitter irony which , in some instances , under a ...
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Page 154 - Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein' gute Wehr und Waffen, Er hilft uns frei aus aller Not, Die uns jetzt hat betroffen. Der alt' böse Feind Mit Ernst er's jetzt meint; Groß' Macht und viel List Sein' grausam Rüstung ist, Auf Erd
Page 59 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.