German life and literature, biographical sketches, Ausgabe 297

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Seite 364 - Und belehr ich mich nicht, indem ich des lieblichen Busens Formen spähe, die Hand leite die Hüften hinab? Dann versteh ich den Marmor erst recht; ich denk und vergleiche, Sehe mit fühlendem Äug, fühle mit sehender Hand.
Seite 177 - Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Seite 196 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Seite 359 - All the important interests of his great country are concentrated in the capital, and there have their proper life and their proper echo. Besides, in most of his political songs he is by no means to be regarded as the mere organ of a single party; on the contrary, the things against which he writes are for the most part of so universal and national an interest, that the poet is almost always heard as a great voice of the people. With us, in Germany, such a thing is not possible. We have no city,...
Seite 352 - Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For...
Seite 335 - ... them and praise you — Out of my own self, I dare to phrase it. But the best is when I glide from out them, Cross a step or two of dubious twilight, Come out on the other side, the novel Silent silver lights and darks undreamed of, Where I hush and bless myself with silence.
Seite 364 - Oftmals hab ich auch schon in ihren Armen gedichtet Und des Hexameters Maß leise mit fingernder Hand Ihr auf den Rücken gezählt. Sie atmet in lieblichem Schlummer, Und es durchglühet ihr Hauch mir bis ins Tiefste die Brust. Amor schüret die Lamp indes und denket der Zeiten, Da er den nämlichen Dienst seinen Triumvirn getan.
Seite 205 - ... hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
Seite 362 - On the whole, I must say that my great idea of him is not lessened by this personal acquaintance ; but I doubt whether we shall ever become intimate. Much that to me is...
Seite 335 - None but would forego his proper dowry, — Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, — Does he write? he fain would paint a picture, Put to proof art alien to...

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