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... poems , dictated from his mattress- grave , ' are marred by a bitter irony and sad world - wearied scepticism . In them we see the passionate longing for peace and rest , the nameless Weltschmerz which animates and gives its colour to ...
... poems , dictated from his mattress- grave , ' are marred by a bitter irony and sad world - wearied scepticism . In them we see the passionate longing for peace and rest , the nameless Weltschmerz which animates and gives its colour to ...
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... poems marvellous for stately strength and perhaps the finest production of Heine's muse . In all that he wrote there is a deep underlying sincerity and earnestness , the only gauge by which a poet's thought and work can be tested : denn ...
... poems marvellous for stately strength and perhaps the finest production of Heine's muse . In all that he wrote there is a deep underlying sincerity and earnestness , the only gauge by which a poet's thought and work can be tested : denn ...
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... poems on " The North Sea " containing passages which have passed into the very life - blood of German thought , the very core and conscience of its memory . These wild , fragrant , fantastic flowerets of imagination are the very ...
... poems on " The North Sea " containing passages which have passed into the very life - blood of German thought , the very core and conscience of its memory . These wild , fragrant , fantastic flowerets of imagination are the very ...
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... POEM full of life , character and beauty , a simple story of domestic but universal interest , written in Homeric ... poems , but an example of Goethe's style at its highest and brightest . Though in form and plan somewhat indebted to ...
... POEM full of life , character and beauty , a simple story of domestic but universal interest , written in Homeric ... poems , but an example of Goethe's style at its highest and brightest . Though in form and plan somewhat indebted to ...
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... poem can render its charms . " The per- fume of the violet is not to be found in the description of the violet . " Remarkable not less for the truthful objective delineation of the scenes than for the few decisive unobtrusive touches ...
... poem can render its charms . " The per- fume of the violet is not to be found in the description of the violet . " Remarkable not less for the truthful objective delineation of the scenes than for the few decisive unobtrusive touches ...
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Página 83 - And if indeed I cast the brand away, Surely a precious thing, one worthy note, Should thus be lost for ever from the earth, Which might have pleased the eyes of many men. What good should follow this, if this were done? What harm, undone? Deep harm to disobey, Seeing obedience is the bond of rule. Were it well to obey then, if a king demand An act unprofitable, against himself? The King is sick, and knows not what he does.
Página 83 - And rumours of a doubt ? but were this kept, Stored in some treasure-house of mighty kings, Some one might show it at a joust of arms, Saying "King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, Wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake. Nine years she wrought it, sitting in the deeps Upon the hidden bases of the hills.
Página 42 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonoured dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate...
Página 94 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 118 - Or to burst all links of habit — there to wander far away, On from island unto island at the gateways of the day. Larger constellations burning, mellow moons and happy skies, Breadths of tropic shade and palms in cluster, knots of Paradise.
Página 64 - ... peculiarly teaches ; these, as they sank down into the depths of his great mind, seem not only to have inspired into it the conception of Lear and Timon, but that of one primary character, the censurer of mankind.
Página 143 - ... there opens before us a vast cave, hewn out into the form of a Cross, and divided into shadowy aisles by many pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor.
Página 143 - What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly in the recesses of the chapels; the roof sheeted with gold, and the polished walls covered with alabaster, give back at every curve and angle some feeble gleaming to the flames...
Página 36 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights.
Página 36 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.