Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Beiblatt. Mitteilungen über englische Sprache und Literatur und über englischen Unterricht, Volumes 39-40

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M. Niemeyer., 1928 - English philology
 

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Page 210 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 12 - Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers, Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise, Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untamed wing...
Page 367 - Die Deutschen sind übrigens wunderliche Leute! Sie machen sich durch ihre tiefen Gedanken und Ideen, die sie überall suchen und überall hineinlegen, das Leben schwerer als billig. Ei, so habt doch endlich einmal die Courage, euch den Eindrücken hinzugeben, euch ergötzen zu lassen, euch rühren zu lassen, euch erheben zu lassen, ja euch belehren und zu etwas Großem entflammen und ermutigen zu lassen; aber denkt nur nicht immer, es wäre alles eitel, wenn es nicht irgend abstrakter Gedanke und...
Page 210 - If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?
Page 110 - The excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreme cruelty of Shylocke the lew towards the saide Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh. And the obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets. Written by W. Shakespeare. Printed by J. Roberts, 1600.
Page 209 - All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event— in the living act, the undoubted deed— there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
Page 110 - From whome the Lord deliver me, And every Christian too, And send to them like sentence eke That meaneth so to do.
Page 311 - Romances are generally composed of the Constant Loves and invincible Courages of Hero's, Heroins, Kings and Queens, Mortals of the first Rank, and so forth; where lofty Language, miraculous Contingencies and impossible Performances, elevate and surprize the Reader into a giddy Delight...
Page 142 - Those abilities, that can hammer out a novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental comedy. It is only sufficient to raise the characters a little ; to deck out the hero with a...
Page 142 - If they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts ; so that Folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the Comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic.

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