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Page 15 - Es erben sich Gesetz- und Rechte Wie eine ewge Krankheit fort, Sie schleppen von Geschlecht sich zum Geschlechte, Und rücken sacht von Ort zu Ort. Vernunft wird Unsinn, Wohltat Plage; Weh dir, daß du ein Enkel bist! Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, Von dem ist leider nie die Frage.
Page 52 - Hier war die Arzenei, die Patienten starben, Und niemand fragte, wer genas! So haben wir mit höllischen Latwergen In diesen Tälern, diesen Bergen Weit schlimmer als die Pest getobt. Ich habe selbst den Gift an Tausende gegeben: Sie welkten hin, ich muß erleben, Daß man die frechen Mörder lobt!
Page 18 - A Frenchman, more than other men, is dependent upon things without himself. Nature and his own mind, with domestic interests and recreations, are not enough to complete his daily circle. For his best enjoyment he must have a succession of factitious excitements. Out of this want Paris has grown to be the capital of the world for superficial amusements. Here are the appliances, — multiplied and diversified with the keenest refinement of sensual ingenuity, — for keeping the mind busy without labor...
Page 88 - If the Artist clothes him with the toga of civil authority, he represents the great statesman ; if with uniform and spurs, the great General. Representing him in either of these characters, he gives preference to the one over the other, and his image of Washington is incomplete, for he was both. But he was more than either or both ; he was a truly great man, in whom statesmanship and generalship were subordinate to supreme nobleness of mind and moral power. The majesty of his nature, the immortality...
Page 88 - Washington, to be best seen, ought to be beheld, hot as he came from the hand of the tailor, but as he came from the hand of God. Thus, the image of him will be at once real and ideal. That Greenough's fellow-countrymen, by whose order this statue was made, would have preferred it draped, ought to be of no weight, even if such a wish had accompanied the order. To the true Artist, the laws of Art are supreme against all wishes or commands. He is the servant of Art only. If, bending to the uninformed...
Page 86 - ... anything for the service. A noble hospitality is this, to which strangers are so accustomed that they do not always duly value it. The Gallery attached to the old Palace over the Uffizii, where is the Tribune with its priceless treasures, daily invites the stranger in the same liberal way. Among the studios of living Artists, the most attractive naturally to an American, are those of his fellow countrymen. Nor do they need national partiality to make them attractive. The first American who gained...
Page 54 - A murder-loving devil has taken possession of the medical chairs ; for none but a devil could recommend to physicians blood-letting as a necessary means.
Page 88 - If the artist clothes him with the toga of civil authority, he represents the great statesman; if with uniform and spurs, the great general. . . . He was both; but he was more than both. ... To invest the colossal image of so towering, so everlasting a man, with the insignia of temporary office is to fail in George Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, c.1841. Horatio Greenough, sculptor. presenting a complete image of...
Page 18 - Paradise. When I first arrived, I went almost nightly to some one of the many theatres. I soon tired of the smaller where, mostly, licentious intrigue and fabulous liberality alternate with farce to keep the attention awake through two or three acts of commonplace. At the Theatre Franfais, I saw Moliere and Rachel. It is no disparagement of Moliere to call him a truncated Shakspeare. The naturalness, vigor, comic sense, practical insight and scenic life of Shakspeare he has ; without Shakspeare's...
Page 38 - ... dignified among mankind. From 1840-43 he was a nomadic resident of Europe. He passed several days with Wordsworth at Rydal Mount (July 30, August 1 and 2, 1840) and visited Carlyle in London (September 10 or 11, 1840). Of his crossing the border from Belgium into Germany he wrote with genuine emotion: After fifteen years I found myself again in Germany: the strong, rich tones of the language came back familiarly to my ears. They came laden with memories of kindness, and enjoyments, and profit....