Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48W. Blackwood., 1840 |
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Pagina 11
... Germans - our only very important neighbours . As leaders of civilisation , as powers in an intellec- tual sense , there are but three na- tions in Europe - England , Germany , France . As to Spain and Italy , out- lying extremities ...
... Germans - our only very important neighbours . As leaders of civilisation , as powers in an intellec- tual sense , there are but three na- tions in Europe - England , Germany , France . As to Spain and Italy , out- lying extremities ...
Pagina 13
... Germans . Even on its own account , and without any view to our present purpose , the cha- racter of German prose is an object of legitimate astonishment . What- ever is bad in our own ideal of prose style , whatever is repulsive in our ...
... Germans . Even on its own account , and without any view to our present purpose , the cha- racter of German prose is an object of legitimate astonishment . What- ever is bad in our own ideal of prose style , whatever is repulsive in our ...
Pagina 15
... Germán extreme . For those who read German there is this advantage - that German prose , as written by the mob of authors , presents , as in a Brobdigna- gian mirror , the most offensive faults of our own . But these faults - are they ...
... Germán extreme . For those who read German there is this advantage - that German prose , as written by the mob of authors , presents , as in a Brobdigna- gian mirror , the most offensive faults of our own . But these faults - are they ...
Pagina 17
... German book , otherwise entitled to respect , it was said - er lässt sich nicht lesen , it does not permit itself to be read such and so repulsive was the style . Among ourselves , this has long been true of newspapers : they do not ...
... German book , otherwise entitled to respect , it was said - er lässt sich nicht lesen , it does not permit itself to be read such and so repulsive was the style . Among ourselves , this has long been true of newspapers : they do not ...
Pagina 18
... German armies ; while an assured and ample revenue , such as no other European prince of that age enjoyed , gave him the power of exhausting his opponent by the in- definite prolongation of the war , if im mediate success proved ...
... German armies ; while an assured and ample revenue , such as no other European prince of that age enjoyed , gave him the power of exhausting his opponent by the in- definite prolongation of the war , if im mediate success proved ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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Populaire passages
Pagina 197 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Pagina 33 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pagina 47 - But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Pagina 45 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Pagina 107 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Pagina 47 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Pagina 432 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Pagina 268 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Pagina 356 - Greek, obedient to thy word, Shall form an ambush, or shall lift the sword? What cause have I to war at thy decree? The distant Trojans never injured me...
Pagina 167 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.