The Fortnightly, Band 15Chapman and Hall., 1871 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Anne army artist Austria Austrian Empire Balzac Barnstaple battle of Sadowa beauty better Bismarck character civilisation colour common Count Bismarck declared Donald doubt Edgar Quinet effect Empire England English Europe existence expression eyes face fact father favour feeling force forest France Frankfort French German German Confederation German Empire German language give grandfather hand heart Horsingham human idea interest Italian Italy Keturah kind King King Arthur labour Lacer land less liberty look means ment Michelangelo military mind monarchy moral Mortlands mother nature never object once organisation Paris Parliament peace persons political poor popular population present principle Prussia question Quinet rendered revolution seems sentiment Shelley social society speak supposed things thought Tilly tion true truth universal suffrage whole Woolling words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 378 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Seite 805 - I would not marvel at either, but keep a temperate brain; For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Seite 437 - Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays ; But here there is no light Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Seite 84 - WE look for her that sunlike stood Upon the forehead of our day, An orb of nations, radiating food For body and for mind alway. Where is the Shape of glad array; The nervous hands, the front of steel, The clarion tongue? Where is the bold proud face? We see a vacant place; We hear an iron heel.
Seite 94 - They shall not sit on the judges' seat, Nor understand the sentence of judgment: They cannot declare justice and judgment; And they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
Seite 80 - ... at him. Thank Heaven ! the ball went through his gown, and he remained unhurt. Mr. S. happened to stand sideways ; had he stood fronting, the ball must have killed him. Bysshe fired his pistol, but it would not go off; he then aimed a blow at him with an old sword, which we found in the house.
Seite 311 - His language deserves a commendation sometimes bestowed by ladies upon rich garments, that it is capable of standing up by itself. The form is so admirable that, for purposes of criticism, we must consider it as something apart from the substance. The most exquisite passages in De Quincey's writings are all more or less attempts to carry out the idea expressed in the title of the dream fugue.
Seite 244 - That also of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Seite 86 - Beast compact : Abhorred of all. Yet, how they sucked the teats Of Carnage, thirsty issue of their dam, Whose eagles, angrier than their oriflamme, Flushed the vext earth with blood, green earth forgets. The gay young generations mask her grief; Where bled her children hangs the loaded sheaf. Forgetful is green earth ; the Gods alone Remember everlastingly: they strike Remorselessly, and ever like for like. By their great memories the Gods are known.
Seite 418 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness.