Th. Kuffner's Erzaehlende Schriften: Bd. Scherz und Ernst. Der Mord des Toten. Geist und Leben der britischen Dichter des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts

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I. Klang, 1845

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Pagina 431 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Pagina 433 - And hamlets glittered white, and gardens flourished green : !T was transport to inhale the bright sweet air ! The mountain-bee was revelling in its glare, And roving with his minstrelsy across The scented wild weeds, and enamelled moss.
Pagina 433 - TWAS sunset, and the Ranz des Vaches was sung, And lights were o'er th' Helvetian mountains flung, That gave the glacier tops their richest glow, And tinged the lakes like molten gold below. Warmth flush'd the wonted regions of the storm, Where, Phoenix-like, you saw the eagle's form, That high in Heav'n's vermilion wheel'd and soar'd.
Pagina 419 - Thy genial heat enlivens the chill' d frame. I love to muse me o'er the evening hearth, I love to pause in meditation's sway; And whilst each object gives reflection birth, Mark thy brisk rise, and see thy slow decay: And I would wish, like thee, to shine serene, Like thee, within mine influence, all to cheer; And wish at last, in life's declining scene, As I had beam'd as bright, to fade as clear: So might my children ponder o'er my shrine, And o'er my ashes muse, as I will muse o'er thine.
Pagina 442 - The Winter Morning Walk and The Winter Walk at Noon) contain many passages of sympathetic description that have become classical.
Pagina 421 - ... shower retires, Kindle thy unhurting fires, And among the meadows near, Thy refulgent pillar rear ; Or amid the dark-blue cloud, High thine orbed glories shroud ; Or the moisten'd hills between, Bent in mighty arch be seen ; Through whose sparkling portals wide, Fiends of storm and darkness ride. Like Cheerfulness, thou art wont to gaze Always on the brightest blaze ; Canst from setting suns deduce Varied gleams and sprightly hues ; And on low'ring gloom imprint Smiling streaks of gayest tint.
Pagina 421 - Finger of the dews of air, Glowing vision, fleet as fair ; While the evening shower retires, Kindle thy unhurting fires, And among the meadows near, Thy refulgent pillar rear ; Or amid the dark-blue cloud, High thine orbed glories shroud ; Or the moisten'd hills between, Bent in mighty arch be seen ; Through whose sparkling portals wide, Fiends of storm and darkness ride. Like Cheerfulness...

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