Minna von Barnheim: a comedyClarendon Press, 1896 - 219 pages |
Common terms and phrases
Auftritt called character circumstance clause course critical denotes derived dramatic editions Emilia Galotti Engl English Eva König express expression fact Feldjäger formerly Franziska Frauenzimmerchen Frederick the Great French fully Geld generally gewiß give gnädiges Fräulein Hand heißt Herr Major Herr Wachtmeister Herr Wirth honour hören idiomatically Ihro Gnaden jezt Kamenz kommen ladyship landlord language laß laſſen läßt leave Lessing Lessing's letter lieber literary Madam Mann meaning means military Minna von Barnhelm Miss Sara Sampson muß Nathan der Weise Paul Werner phrase piece Pistolen play present Prussian Render rendered Riccaut Ring scene ſein sense servant simply soll speak Tellheim Tellheim's term thing Unglück unserer used in German verb Wachtmeister weiß whole wieder Wilhelm Tell wish wohl wollen word written wrote young
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Page xxxv - Nous aurons nos auteurs classiques; chacun, pour en profiter, voudra les lire; nos voisins apprendront l'allemand, les Cours le parleront avec délice; et il pourra arriver que notre langue polie et per* B: en eurent aussi fectionnée s'étende en faveur de nos bons Ecrivains d'un [80] bout de l'Europe à l'autre.
Page 177 - The unclean spirit when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and finding none, he saith, I will turn back unto my house whence I came out.
Page xlviii - To vie with both his brothers in displaying The virtue of his ring ; assist its might With gentleness, benevolence, forbearance, With inward resignation to the godhead, And if the virtues of the ring continue To show themselves among your children's children, After a thousand thousand years, appear Before this judgment-seat — a greater one Than I shall sit upon it, and decide.
Page xlviii - Appears, and claims to be the lord o' th' house. Comes question, strife, complaint ; all to no end, For the true ring could no more be distinguished Than now can — the true faith.
Page 168 - Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most.
Page xlix - Poetry,' from which the above verses from Nathan have been taken. 'It is become,' he says, 'a national classic; it forms an era in the history of opinion. The altered sentiments and conduct of the German public towards the Jews began in Nathan the Wise. The consequent alterations of Prussian legislation result from Nathan the Wise. Cumberland's comedy of the Jew, which has favoured in England an analogous temper, but which does not appeal to so high a class of feelings, drew inspiration from German...
Page xlix - Gregoire, and the French patrons of Judaism, owe their tolerance to the ring of Nathan. Be it strange, extravagant, improbable, there is that in the book which endears it everywhere to the generously minded, and efficaciously associates the doctrine of religious equity with loftiness of thinking and disinterest of conduct.