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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... that time , has ever remained a ground feature of the German national character and literature . The minne - song is one of the most striking appearances in the history of poetry . In it 44 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
... that time , has ever remained a ground feature of the German national character and literature . The minne - song is one of the most striking appearances in the history of poetry . In it 44 INTRODUCTION TO A COURSE OF.
Page 56
... remained simply an honourable private cha- racter ; —far be it from us , I say , to call him the author of an event so universal as the Reformation . Luther was the chief mental warrior of his age . Reason chose him as her champion ...
... remained simply an honourable private cha- racter ; —far be it from us , I say , to call him the author of an event so universal as the Reformation . Luther was the chief mental warrior of his age . Reason chose him as her champion ...
Page 83
... remained in perpetual bondage to the Greek . The poetic life of the Romans , always dry and barren , became more so , as the public luxury and profligacy increased . The old heroic songs , of which Cicero makes Cato speak , and which ...
... remained in perpetual bondage to the Greek . The poetic life of the Romans , always dry and barren , became more so , as the public luxury and profligacy increased . The old heroic songs , of which Cicero makes Cato speak , and which ...
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... remained on their estates , entered into a more close connexion . Thus , then , the interests of these two classes became less opposed than formerly ; and , consequently , the knight and citizen could more easily be enlisted for a ...
... remained on their estates , entered into a more close connexion . Thus , then , the interests of these two classes became less opposed than formerly ; and , consequently , the knight and citizen could more easily be enlisted for a ...
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... remained secluded in their castles , with no other literary associate than a half - taught monk or chaplain , who imparted his own small allotment of learning to the children of his lord ; or , in the service of some potentate , the ...
... remained secluded in their castles , with no other literary associate than a half - taught monk or chaplain , who imparted his own small allotment of learning to the children of his lord ; or , in the service of some potentate , the ...
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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.