Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and ModernT. Blackwood and sons, 1841 - 392 страници |
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Страница 2 - ... between them and the rest of the nation, was universal throughout Germany; and, indeed, these unnatural distinctions and their necessary consequences protracted no inconsiderable influence in particular...
Страница 179 - If we consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect, — as the aggregate mass of symbols, in which the spirit of an age, or the character of a nation, is shadowed forth...
Страница 305 - In every situation and circumstance, Calderon is, of all dramatic poets, the most Christian, and for that very reason the most romantic.
Страница 375 - As to the intellectual power and greatness of Luther, abstracted from all consideration of the uses to which he applied them, I think there are few, even of his own disciples, who appreciate him highly enough. His coadjutors were mostly mere scholars, indolent and enlightened men of the common order. It was upon him and his soul that the fate of Europe depended. He was the man of his age and nation.
Страница 38 - ... is such as to entitle him to take his place among the first poets to whom Greece has given birth. In many passages of serious and earnest poetry which (thanks to the boundless variety and lawless formation of the popular comedy of Athens), he has here and there introduced, Aristophanes shows himself to be a true poet, and capable, had he so chosen, of reaching the highest eminence even in the more dignified departments of his art.
Страница 305 - ... and power, but when he had feelings intense and secret to express, he had recourse to a form of writing with which his habits had rendered him less familiar. It is strange but delightful to scrutinize, in his short effusions, the character of Shakespeare. In them...
Страница 257 - The care of the national language I consider as at all times a sacred trust and a most important privilege of the higher orders of society.
Страница 296 - ... without the intervention of a veil. Poetry requires to have a corporeal habitation, and this she finds in her best sphere, the traditions of a nation, the recollections and past of a people. In her representations of these, however, she introduces the whole wealth of the present, so far as that is susceptible of poetical ornament; she plunges also into the future, because she explains the apparent mysteries of earthly existence, accompanies individual life through all its development, down to...
Страница 11 - ... which gives them elevation in their own. It is not from the extent of its undertakings alone, or from the remarkable nature of the incidents of its history, that we judge of the character and importance of a nation. Many a nation, which has undergone in its time all the varieties of human fortune, has sunk nameless into oblivion, and left behind scarcely a trace of its existence. Others, more fortunate, have transmitted to posterity the memory of their influence. and the fame of their conquests;...
Страница 374 - ... of Catholics themselves. But the instant this folly had blown over, we returned with increased affection to the excellent old version of Luther. Luther himself has not indeed the whole merit of producing it. He only selected the best parts of translations existing before his time, and he was assisted in this labour by several of his friends, in particular by the indefatigable Melancthon. We owe to him, nevertheless, the highest gratitude for placing in our hands this most noble and manly model...