Menschliche Tragikomödie: Gesammelte Studien, Skizzen und Bilder, Volúmenes 1-4

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O. Wigand, 1884
 

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Página 44 - Whitehall ; They are bursting on our flanks. Grasp your pikes, close your ranks ; For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall. They are here ! They rush on ! We are broken ! We are gone! Our left is borne before them like stubble on the blast. O Lord, put forth thy might ! O Lord, defend the right ! Stand back to back, in God's name, and fight it to the last.
Página 52 - ... remaineth to be done : these are, therefore, to will and require you to see the said sentence executed, in the open street before Whitehall, upon the morrow, being the thirtieth day of this instant month of January, between the hours of ten in the morning and five in the afternoon of the same day, with full effect : and for so doing, this shall be your sufficient warrant.
Página 40 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride: That hour, o...
Página 43 - La vertu succombant sous l'audace impunie, L'imposture en honneur, la vérité bannie; L'errante liberté Aux dieux vivants du monde offerte en sacrifice; Et la force, partout, fondant de l'injustice Le règne illimité. La valeur sans les dieux décidant des batailles!
Página 44 - His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks! For Rupert never comes but to conquer or to fall.
Página 120 - With a more riotous appetite. Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above : But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'; There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie, fie, fie!
Página 52 - At the High Court of Justice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart, King of England, 29th January, 1648. WHEREAS Charles Stuart, King of England, is and standeth convicted, attainted and condemned of High Treason and other high Crimes ; and Sentence upon Saturday last was pronounced against him by this Court, To be put to death by the severing of his head from his body ; of...
Página 66 - I undertook not so much out of hope of doing any good, as out of a desire to prevent mischief and evil [Note this], — which I did see was imminent on the Nation. I say, we were running headlong into confusion and disorder, and would necessarily
Página 99 - Enfin c'en est fait, la Brinvilliers est en l'air; son pauvre petit corps a été jeté , après l'exécution , dans un fort grand feu , et ses cendres au vent ; de sorte que nous la respirerons , et que par la communication des petits esprits, il nous prendra quelque humeur empoisonnante , dont nous serons tout étonnés.
Página 113 - Besides, my Muse by no means deals in fiction : She gathers a repertory of facts, Of course with some reserve and slight restriction, But mostly sings of human things and acts — And that's one cause she meets with contradiction; For too much truth, at first sight, ne'er attracts ; And were her object only what's call'd glory, With more ease too she'd tell a different story.

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