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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
beauty believe better Börne called character charm chiefly Christian Church Cumming Cumming's death divine doctrine Duke of Wharton earth emotion Evangelical evidence evil eyes fact feeling France friends genius George Eliot German give glory Grammar of Ornament habits heart heaven Heine Heine's Heinrich Heine Hôtel de Rambouillet human humor idea imagination intellectual interest joys La Rochefoucauld Lady Sunderland Lecky less literary literature living Madame de Longueville Madame de Sablé Mademoiselle marriage mental Middle Germany mind moral motives nature ness never Night Thoughts novels object once opinion peasant peasantry perhaps persons piety poems poet political present readers reason religion religious Riehl Rochefoucauld satire seems sense sentiments social society sorrow sort soul spirit style sympathy taste tells things tion true truth virtue Voltaire witchcraft woman women word write Young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 97 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Seite 133 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Seite 19 - If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Seite 93 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because, ' inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Seite 238 - Here is firm footing; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Seite 230 - This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, through which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man ? The smallest part of nothing. Day buries day ; month, month ; and year the year ! Our life is but a chain of many deaths. Can then Death's self be...
Seite 239 - Now see the man immortal : him, I mean, Who lives as such; whose heart, full bent on heaven, Leans all that way, his bias to the stars.
Seite 11 - Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.
Seite 248 - ETERNITY, the various sentence past, Assigns the sever'd throng distinct abodes, Sulphureous, or ambrosial : What ensues ? The deed predominant ! the deed of deeds ! Which makes a hell of hell, a heav'n of heav'n.
Seite 241 - Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free From real life ; but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, • . Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man.