Longfellows Wechselbeziehungen zu der deutschen Literatur ...Dr. Seele & Company, 1907 - 78 pages |
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Anhang Armen Heinrich ausdrücklich äußerst Ballade beeinflußt beiden Dichtern Beispiel Berkley Beschreibung besonders Besprechung Betrachtung bewußt Book Charakter Charakteristik death deep deutschen Elemente deutschen Litteratur Dichtung Eindruck Einfluß Elsie Elsie's Ende Entschluß Episoden ersten erwähnt Erzählung Evangeline Faust fellow finden findet Flowers folgende Fürsten ganzen Gedanken Gedicht Gespräche Goethe Goldenen Legende Handlung Hartmann häufig Hauptsache heart heißt Helden Hermann und Dorothea Hexameter Hyperion Jahre Jean Paul Kapitel Kavanaugh kommt konnte Kratz lassen läßt Leben Lektüre lichen life Long Longfellow Longfellows Verhältnis Longfellows Werken Lucifer Mädchen Maria Stuart Menschen Mephisto Mephistopheles Münzner muß Natur Naturschilderung night once Opfer Outre-Mer Paul Flemming Personen Poet Poetical poetische Prince Henry Prose Works Rede Reise Reminiscenz Roman sagt Salerno scheint Schilderung Siebenkäs Song Sprache Stellen Stimmung Subjektivismus Szene Tagebuch Teil Teufel thou Titan Übersetzung unserer Untersuchung Vergleich viel Voices Vorlage weiß weiter wenig wieder Wilhelm Meister wohl Worte youth zeigt
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Page 38 - Beautiful was the night. Behind the black wall of the forest, Tipping its summit with silver, arose the moon. On the river Fell here and there through the branches a tremulous gleam of the moonlight, Like the sweet thoughts of love on a darkened and devious spirit.
Page 8 - Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Page 22 - The little I have seen of the world, and know of the history of mankind, teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
Page 36 - BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public ; Shocks of yellow hairs, like the silken floss of the maize, hung Over his shoulders ; his forehead was high ; and glasses with horn bows Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supernal.
Page 67 - Der kleine Gott der Welt bleibt stets von gleichem Schlag Und ist so wunderlich als wie am ersten Tag. Ein wenig besser würd er leben, Hättst du ihm nicht den Schein des Himmelslichts gegeben; Er nennt's Vernunft und braucht's allein, Nur tierischer als jedes Tier zu sein.
Page 41 - that you find something to like in The Golden Legend. I have endeavored to show in it, among other things, that through the darkness and corruption of the Middle Ages ran a bright, deep stream of Faith, strong enough for all the exigencies of life and death.
Page 75 - Eilende Wolken! Segler der Lüfte! Wer mit euch wanderte, mit euch schiffte! Grüßet mir freundlich mein Jugendland! Ich bin gefangen, ich bin in Banden, Ach, ich hab keinen andern Gesandten!
Page 29 - Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 22 - ... within, — health gone, happiness gone, — even hope, that stays longest with us, gone, — I have little heart for aught else than thankfulness that it is not so with me, and would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hands it came, " Even as a little girl, Weeping and laughing in her childish sport.
Page 8 - It was so with Flemming ; and from that hour forth he resolved that he would no longer veer with every shifting wind of circumstance ; no longer be a child's plaything in the hands of Fate, which we ourselves do make or mar. He resolved henceforward not to lean on others; but to walk self-confident and self-possessed; no longer to waste his years in vain regrets, nor wait the...