Life of Jean Paul F. Richter, Volume 2

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J. Chapman, 1845
 

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Page 188 - Lord of earth and air ! O king ! O father ! hear my humble prayer : Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore ; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more: If Greece must perish, we thy will obey, But let us perish in the face of day!
Page 81 - Poetry, the most important of all his works, and to the completion of which the studies of his whole life appear to have been bent. How much it is to be regretted that he did not live to complete his plan, every student in ancient literature must be deeply sensible. He intended to have carried the history down to the commencement of the eighteenth century. A second volume accordingly appeared in...
Page 57 - ... on whose opened eyes and heart the flowery earth and beaming heavens -strike not in infinitesimals, but in large and towering masses ; for whom the great Whole is something more than a nursery or a .ball-room ; one who, with a feeling at once tender and discriminating, and with a heart at once pious and large, for ever improves the man whom she has wedded. This it is, and no more, to which the author of this history limits his wishes.
Page 56 - Caroline has exactly that inexpressible love for all beings that I have, till now, failed to find, even in those who in everything else possess the splendour and purity of the diamond. She preserves in the full harmony of her love to me, the middle and lower tones of sympathy for every joy and sorrow of others.

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