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... command , an ardent youth subject to control , are all compared by the Persians to the high soaring falcon , that vaults in fetters . The most beautiful image of this sort is , per → haps , to be found in our own poet , ' The air a ...
... command , an ardent youth subject to control , are all compared by the Persians to the high soaring falcon , that vaults in fetters . The most beautiful image of this sort is , per → haps , to be found in our own poet , ' The air a ...
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... command its wonted stand . What object strikes my eye with festive glee ? Is't Caucasus whose hoary head I see ? The dreadful precipice , and russet plain , Of blooming meads and verdant hills a chain , Gay open fields , where man and ...
... command its wonted stand . What object strikes my eye with festive glee ? Is't Caucasus whose hoary head I see ? The dreadful precipice , and russet plain , Of blooming meads and verdant hills a chain , Gay open fields , where man and ...
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... me would disturb Will soon the heat of his malice extinguish . The sole noise of thy thundering glory The one will make tremble , Commands of thee the other will receive , And thy sword will kiss . D IV . Struck down , see , by thy hand 17.
... me would disturb Will soon the heat of his malice extinguish . The sole noise of thy thundering glory The one will make tremble , Commands of thee the other will receive , And thy sword will kiss . D IV . Struck down , see , by thy hand 17.
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... O'er the wide world an uncontroll'd command Two mighty nations seem to claim , And waste with fire and sword each conquer'd land , And thunder o'er the briny main . Gold muss ihnen jede Landschaft wägen , Und wie Brennus 53.
... O'er the wide world an uncontroll'd command Two mighty nations seem to claim , And waste with fire and sword each conquer'd land , And thunder o'er the briny main . Gold muss ihnen jede Landschaft wägen , Und wie Brennus 53.
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... command of three battalions , made no use of his troops but to lay waste , plunder , " and maraud . * g Q. I. answered : But we divided the booty be- tween us share and share alike . The King said not a word . At another Time . The King ...
... command of three battalions , made no use of his troops but to lay waste , plunder , " and maraud . * g Q. I. answered : But we divided the booty be- tween us share and share alike . The King said not a word . At another Time . The King ...
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Allah Aonia Arabic arms asked avia Bach beautiful Belphegor Bidpay blood Blut Boeotia Brennus Brüder Chîm Chinese clad colonel colour command dark delight Dictionary El Conde Lucanor English Entzücken ewig eyes flower Frederic Freude German German language glory gold Gott Greece Greek hand happy heaven Hebrew heroes hills Hitopadesa horse Idumæas IDUMEAS India Ithone JAHRES King Länder language Latin light lord machen Maha Majesty Mantua means Muses Numina o'er Orbis Pictus Oriental Fragments palmas palms peace Persian PETERSBURGH Pferd Phoenicia plain poet Primus purple Räder rose Russ russet earth Russia Russian Russian language Sanscrit Sausha seyn shepherd shewing Simeon Seth skulls smile soll song soul Spahis specimen spring Stanza stars sword temple thee thou tion TRANSLATED u'deen verdure verses versts Virgil Welt whilst wind word δὲ Εἰς ἐν ἐπ καὶ ὡς
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Page 208 - Aonian maids, Delight no more — O Thou my voice inspire Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire! Rapt into future times the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive — a Virgin bear a Son ! From Jesse's root behold a Branch arise Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies: Th...
Page 203 - From these rude shores our fearless course we held: Beneath the glistening wave the god of day Had now five times withdrawn the parting ray, When o'er the prow a sudden darkness spread, And slowly floating o'er the mast's tall head A black cloud...
Page 45 - Primus ego in patriam mecum, modo vita supersit, Aonio rediens deducam vertice Musas; primus Idumaeas referam tibi, Mantua, palmas...
Page 210 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 164 - Je m'embarque fièrement, Et je vais en ambassade, Au nom de mon souverain, Dire que je suis malade Et que lui se porte bien. Avec une joue enflée Je débarque tout honteux. La princesse, boursouflée...
Page 54 - Amphitrite Will er schließen wie sein eignes Haus. Zu des Südpols nie erblickten Sternen Dringt sein rastlos ungehemmter Lauf, Alle Inseln spürt er, alle fernen Küsten — nur das Paradies nicht auf.
Page 52 - Edler Freund! Wo öffnet sich dem Frieden, Wo der Freiheit sich ein Zufluchtsort? Das Jahrhundert ist im Sturm geschieden, Und das neue öffnet sich mit Mord. Und das band der Länder ist gehoben, Und die alten Formen stürzen ein; Nicht das Weltmeer hemmt des Krieges Toben, Nicht der Nilgott und der alte Rhein.
Page 212 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of matter born, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 42 - Aus der Wahrheit Feuerspiegel lächelt sie den Forscher an. Zu der Tugend steilem Hügel leitet sie des Dulders Bahn. Auf des Glaubens Sonnenberge sieht man ihre Fahnen wehn, durch den Riß gesprengter Särge sie im Chor der Engel stehn.
Page 40 - Freude heißt die starke Feder In der ewigen Natur. Freude, Freude treibt die Räder In der großen Weltenuhr. Blumen lockt sie aus den Keimen, Sonnen aus dem Firmament, Sphären rollt sie in den Räumen, Die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt.