Historische und politische Aufsätze: Bd. Charaktere, vornehmlich aus der neuesten deutschen Geschichte

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Pàgina 331 - The sword, the banner, and the field, Glory and Greece, around me see! The Spartan, borne upon his shield, Was not more free.
Pàgina 326 - God save the king!" and kings! For if he don't, I doubt if men will longer — I think I hear a little bird, who sings The people by and by will be the stronger : The veriest jade will wince whose harness wrings So much into the raw as quite to wrong her Beyond the rules of posting, — and the mob At last fall sick of imitating Job.
Pàgina 320 - The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Pàgina 342 - Tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper. Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour. For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their midnight taper, To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Pàgina 327 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Pàgina 52 - Hail, Son of the Most High, heir of both worlds, Queller of Satan ! on thy glorious work Now enter, and begin to save mankind.
Pàgina 323 - The landed interest — (you may understand The phrase much better leaving out the land) — The land self-interest groans from shore to shore, For fear that plenty should attain the poor. Up, up again, ye rents! exalt your notes, Or else the ministry will lose their votes, And patriotism, so delicately nice, Her loaves will lower to the market price; For ah! 'the loaves and fishes...
Pàgina 392 - Nous ne voulons pas la contre-révolution, mais le contraire de la révolution.
Pàgina 329 - Апеф1е тф1 ju erfфüttern fфien : a land of slaves shall ne'r be mine — dash down yon cup of Samian wine. фоф b,ielt er feft an ber £>offnung, baf? ber Díame |>efla$ toieber „ein SBecÉruf für bie 3öelt
Pàgina 316 - SDon 3uan fo fфneibenb gefфtIbert toirb : in the times of old men made the manners, manners now make men.

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