Englische Studien, Volumen 15

Portada
Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops
O.R. Reisland, 1891
"Zeitschrift für englische Philologie" (varies slightly).

Dentro del libro

Páginas seleccionadas

Otras ediciones - Ver todo

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 279 - Hier will das Drama gar nicht fort, es ist verflucht, der König von Tauris soll reden als wenn kein Strumpfwürcker in Apolde hungerte.
Página 338 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Página 42 - Great and high, The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. My roof receives me not ; 'tis air I tread ; And, at each step, I feel my advanced head Knock out a star in heaven...
Página 280 - It is true that compassion ought, like all other feelings, to be under the government of reason, and has, for want of such government, produced some ridiculous and some deplorable effects. But the more we study the annals of the past, the more shall we rejoice that we live in a merciful age, in an age in which cruelty is abhorred, and in which pain, even when deserved, is inflicted reluctantly and from a sense of duty.
Página 267 - A plane surface, or a plane, is a surface in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line joining these points lies wholly in the surface.
Página 325 - O sacred, shadowy, cold and constant queen, Abandoner of revels, mute, contemplative, Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure As wind-fann'd snow, who to thy female knights Allow'st no more blood than will make a blush, Which is their order's robe ; I here, thy priest, Am humbled 'fore thine altar.
Página 48 - tis nobler to despair. My love's my soul, and that from fate is free — 'Tis that unchanged and deathless part of me.
Página 275 - The church has many times been compared by Divines to the ark of which we read in the book of Genesis ; but never was the resemblance more perfect than during that evil time when she alone rode, amidst darkness and tempest, on the deluge beneath which all the great works of ancient power and wisdom lay entombed, bearing within her that feeble germ from which a second and more glorious civilization was to spring.
Página 280 - Demosthenes," he said to Mrs. Thrale, " were a people of brutes, a barbarous people." In conversation with Sir Adam Ferguson he used similar language. "The boasted Athenians," he said, " were barbarians. The mass of every people must be barbarous, where there, is no printing.
Página 326 - I here, thy priest, am humbled 'fore thine altar ! oh, vouchsafe, with that thy rare green eye, which never yet beheld thing maculate, look on thy virgin ! and, sacred silver mistress, lend thine ear, (which ne'er heard scurril term, into whose port ne'er enter'd wanton sound,) to my petition, season'd with holy fear! This is my last of vestal office; I am bride-habited, but maiden-hearted...

Información bibliográfica