The Minor Poems of Schiller of the Second and Third Periods: With a Few of Those of Earlier DateW. Pickering, 1844 - 416 pages |
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... poets , -Goëthe's genius is universal , —in a collected shape , to the English reader . It may rather demand explanation why the collection is , in some respects , incomplete ; and I proceed accordingly to render an account of the ...
... poets , -Goëthe's genius is universal , —in a collected shape , to the English reader . It may rather demand explanation why the collection is , in some respects , incomplete ; and I proceed accordingly to render an account of the ...
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... poet's genius which were pro- duced during the two later periods into which his poetical career has been distinguished , while I have furnished only a few specimens , and that by way of Appendix , of those of earlier date ? -to which my ...
... poet's genius which were pro- duced during the two later periods into which his poetical career has been distinguished , while I have furnished only a few specimens , and that by way of Appendix , of those of earlier date ? -to which my ...
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... Poet thought fit to embody his ab- struse speculative doctrines , and which require , in order to their full comprehension , the aid of a commentary , equal in extent to that of the prose treatises in which those doctrines are ex ...
... Poet thought fit to embody his ab- struse speculative doctrines , and which require , in order to their full comprehension , the aid of a commentary , equal in extent to that of the prose treatises in which those doctrines are ex ...
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... poets ; for whilst I am sensible that some of our first living scholars have , both by advice and example , encouraged the attempt to nationalize amongst us those old classical metres — especially the hexa- meter viii PREFACE .
... poets ; for whilst I am sensible that some of our first living scholars have , both by advice and example , encouraged the attempt to nationalize amongst us those old classical metres — especially the hexa- meter viii PREFACE .
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... poet in its several successive stages of intellectual progress . Madame de Stael has said , respecting the Translator's office , that " il n'y a pas de plus émi- nent service a rendre à la littérature , que de PREFACE . xi.
... poet in its several successive stages of intellectual progress . Madame de Stael has said , respecting the Translator's office , that " il n'y a pas de plus émi- nent service a rendre à la littérature , que de PREFACE . xi.
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Page 378 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 382 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Page 410 - mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 376 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Page 378 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh, if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Page 389 - A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 415 - Calmer and calmer ; simple but memorable words, expressive of the mild heroism of the man. About six he sank into a deep sleep ; once for a moment he looked up with a lively air, and said : ( Many things were growing plain and clear to him...
Page 398 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : It is the hour of feeling.
Page 410 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down: and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair!
Page 378 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust; And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred...