The Foreign Review, Volume 5Black, Young, and Young, 1830 - Periodicals |
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... death , it would seem , Richter had determined on writing some account of his own life ; and with his customary honesty , had set about a thorough preparation for this task . After revolving many plans , some of them singular enough ...
... death , it would seem , Richter had determined on writing some account of his own life ; and with his customary honesty , had set about a thorough preparation for this task . After revolving many plans , some of them singular enough ...
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... death - bed . He was in the act of departing , when a clergyman ( as my father has often told me ) said to them : Now , let the old Jacob lay his hand on the child , and bless him . I was held into the bed of death , and he laid his ...
... death - bed . He was in the act of departing , when a clergyman ( as my father has often told me ) said to them : Now , let the old Jacob lay his hand on the child , and bless him . I was held into the bed of death , and he laid his ...
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... death , first proved what a rugged , deep - rooted , indomitable strength , under such genial softness , dwelt in him ; and from a buoyant cloudcapt Youth , perfected himself into a clear , free , benignant , and lofty - minded Man ...
... death , first proved what a rugged , deep - rooted , indomitable strength , under such genial softness , dwelt in him ; and from a buoyant cloudcapt Youth , perfected himself into a clear , free , benignant , and lofty - minded Man ...
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... Death , found him fixed quarters . The Richter establishment had parted from its old moorings , and was now , with wind and tide , fast drifting towards fatal whirlpools . 6 In this state of matters , the scarcity of Leipzig could ...
... Death , found him fixed quarters . The Richter establishment had parted from its old moorings , and was now , with wind and tide , fast drifting towards fatal whirlpools . 6 In this state of matters , the scarcity of Leipzig could ...
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... Death puts an end to the whole.— For virtue's sake I am here : but if a man , for his task , forgets and sacrifices all , why shouldst not thou ? - ' Expect injuries , for men are weak , and thou thyself does such too often ...
... Death puts an end to the whole.— For virtue's sake I am here : but if a man , for his task , forgets and sacrifices all , why shouldst not thou ? - ' Expect injuries , for men are weak , and thou thyself does such too often ...
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Page 137 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 138 - It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 453 - Tis that enamoured Nightingale Who gives me the reply; He ever tells the same soft tale Of passion and of constancy To his mate, who rapt and fond. Listening sits, a bough beyond.
Page 4 - ... his writings, is one of perennial excellence; rare in all times and situations, and perhaps nowhere and in no time more rare than in literary Europe, at this era. We see in this man a high, self-subsistent, original, and, in many respects, even great character. He shows himself a man of wonderful gifts, and with, perhaps, a still happier combination and adjustment of these : in whom Philosophy and Poetry are not only reconciled; but blended together into a purer essence, into Religion...
Page 199 - Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Hear what Trismegistus says in praise of our sufficiency: "Of all the wonderful things, it surmounts all wonder, that man could find out the divine nature and make it.
Page 413 - I cumber you, good Margaret, much, but I would be sorry if it should be any longer than to-morrow, for it is St. Thomas' even and the Utas* of St. Peter; and therefore to-morrow long I to go to God. It were a day very meet and convenient for me.
Page 161 - ... judge is so clear and open as to declare against that impious vulgar opinion that the devil himself has power to torment and kill innocent children, or that he is pleased to divert himself with the good people's cheese, butter, pigs and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches.
Page 189 - ... who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own, but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employments, and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions.
Page 138 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal...
Page 116 - ... thumbs on the pit of the stomach and the other fingers below the ribs. Then you will descend slowly along the body as far as the knees, or better, and, if you can without incommoding yourself, to the extremity of the feet.