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... Translated by E. P. Evans , Ph . D. , Pro- fessor , etc. , in the University of Michigan . Boston : W. V. Spencer . 1866. 2 vols . G. E. Lessing's Sämmtliche Schriften , herausgegeben von Karl Lachmann . 1853-57 . 12 Bände . century ...
... Translated by E. P. Evans , Ph . D. , Pro- fessor , etc. , in the University of Michigan . Boston : W. V. Spencer . 1866. 2 vols . G. E. Lessing's Sämmtliche Schriften , herausgegeben von Karl Lachmann . 1853-57 . 12 Bände . century ...
Page 108
... translation of " La Vida es Sueño . " His mind was hardly yet ready to feel the strange charm of this most imaginative of Calderon's dramas . Even where Herr Stahr undertakes to give us light on the sources of Lessing , it is some ...
... translation of " La Vida es Sueño . " His mind was hardly yet ready to feel the strange charm of this most imaginative of Calderon's dramas . Even where Herr Stahr undertakes to give us light on the sources of Lessing , it is some ...
Page 109
... translation I can speak for the most part with high commendation . There are great difficulties in translating German prose ; and whatever other good things Herr Stahr may have learned from Lessing , terseness and clear- ness are not ...
... translation I can speak for the most part with high commendation . There are great difficulties in translating German prose ; and whatever other good things Herr Stahr may have learned from Lessing , terseness and clear- ness are not ...
Page 110
... translation , toward which Lessing was so unrelenting , " When I do not understand a passage , why , I translate it word for word . " On page 149 , " Miss Sara Samp- son " is called " the first social tragedy of the German Drama . " All ...
... translation , toward which Lessing was so unrelenting , " When I do not understand a passage , why , I translate it word for word . " On page 149 , " Miss Sara Samp- son " is called " the first social tragedy of the German Drama . " All ...
Page 111
... which we may heartily thank him , in choosing a book of this kind to trans- late , and translating it so well . I would not look such a gift horse too narrowly in the mouth . Let me now endeavor to sum up the result of LESSING III.
... which we may heartily thank him , in choosing a book of this kind to trans- late , and translating it so well . I would not look such a gift horse too narrowly in the mouth . Let me now endeavor to sum up the result of LESSING III.
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Page 161 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 255 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Page 143 - The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 'Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Page 19 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 19 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
Page 279 - Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Page 299 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 308 - Another Damzell, as a precious gemme Amidst a ring most richly well enchaced, That with her goodly presence all the rest much graced.
Page 263 - That same framing of his style to an old rustic language I dare not allow, since neither Theocritus in Greek, Virgil in Latin, nor Sannazzaro in Italian did affect it.
Page 320 - There is something in Spenser that pleases one as strongly in old age as it did in one's youth. I read the Faerie Queene, when I was about twelve, with infinite delight; and I think it gave me as much, when I read it over about a year or two ago."— Spence's Anecdotes.