Poets and Poetry of Germany: Biographical and Critical Notices, Volume 1Chapman & Hall, 1858 |
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Page 24 - And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream bowl duly set...
Page 16 - They even suppose somewhat of sanctity and prescience to be inherent in the female sex; and therefore neither despise their counsels, nor disregard their responses. We have beheld, in the reign of Vespasian, Veleda, long reverenced by many as a deity. Aurima, moreover, and several others, were formerly held in equal veneration, but not with a servile flattery, nor as though they made them goddesses.
Page 397 - European expansion at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth.
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Page 334 - Cela fait, retourne en arrière, Car il ne sait autre assaut faire; Et Renard en moquant s'écrie : Que ferai-je? on m'excommunie. Manger ne pourrai plus de pain Si je n'ai appétit ou faim; Et mon pot bouillir ne pourra Tant que le feu ne sentira. Après avoir lu ces vers, que croire dela superstition du moyen-âge!
Page 235 - A length, appeared the queen alone, A light from her sweet features shone, As when, at the approach of day, Shines, through the clouds, the sun's bright ray! Upon a cushion soft and fair Of finest silk that Persia wove, She bore that treasure, rich and rare, All earthly joy, or bliss above! To which no mortal dare aspire! Above the reach of all desire, The Holy Graal!
Page 236 - Parcival meets a lovely maiden, overwhelmed with grief and holding in her arms a bleeding corpse. It is his cousin Sigune, bearing the body of her beloved husband, and, though it is the first time they have ever met, they recognize each other as relatives. From her, Parcival learns his fatal omission in not inquiring the name of the castle where he had been welcomed; for by him alone could Anfortas be restored to health. While musing on all these extraordinary proceedings, Parcival perceives three...
Page 369 - Destroy, hunt down the robbers, the murderers", he wrote to the princes, "no mercv ! no toleration is due to the peasants; on them should fall the wrath of God and man! They are under the ban of God and the emperor' and may be treated as mad dogs.
Page 369 - The peasants." he says elsewhere, " are under the ban both of God and the emperor, and may be treated as mad dogs." In a letter dated the 21st of June, he enumerates the horrible massacres committed upon them by the nobles, without displaying the least sign of interest or pity. He showed more generosity towards his enemy Carlstadt, who was, at the time, exposed to the greatest dangers, and had infinite difficulty...
Page 422 - Of thine unhappy lot : As though thy grief and anguish, Reached not the eternal throne, And thou wert left to languish, In sorrow and alone. But if, though much should grieve thee, Thy faith shall ne'er have ceased, Be sure he will relieve thee When thou expect'st it least.