Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische PhilologieM. Niemeyer, 1911 |
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Acts adverb alten altenglischen Ancren Andr Angeln Anglia aufser ausdruck autor beiden belege beon Beow Beowulf Boethius butan bute Catiline Chaucer Chauken dafs daſs dated diphthong drama einflufs englischen entwickelung Epinal erklärung ersten Exeter Book fall first früh-ne give Godes good gott great Grendel grofsen hath hauptnegation heifst Heliand influence Jonson Jonson's Kemble kind king könnte läfst later Letter lich life London Lord love Lydgate made make märchen mufs mundarten N. F. XXIII næfre negation negationsausdruckes neuer never nout parallels passages Pinero Pinero's ping play reads Rosenroman says scene scheint schlufs second Sedgefield Sejanus Shenstone Skeat sprache stelle stück taken Tanqueray Theatre thee thing think Thorpe thou Tiberius time tragedy transcript unserer verbum werke Widsith wieder wohl world wort write þæt
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Page 89 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 88 - Achilles' image stood his spear Grip'd in an armed hand; himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind: A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined.
Page 302 - Adultery ! it is the lightest ill . ' / I will commit. A race of wicked acts Shall flow out of my anger, and o'erspread The world's wide face, which no posterity Shall e'er approve, nor yet keep silent...
Page 467 - State ergo succincti lumbos vestros in veritate, et induti loricam justitiae, et calceati pedes in praeparatione evangelii pacis : in omnibus sumentes scutum fidei, in quo possitis omnia tela nequissimi ignea extinguere : et galeam salutis assumite, et gladium Spiritus (quod est verbum Dei...
Page 85 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all armed ; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal, throned by the west; And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts: But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon ; And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 302 - I do not know The heart of his designs ; but sure their face Looks farther than the present. Arr. By the gods, If I could guess he had but such a thought, My sword should cleave him down...
Page 6 - One of the flaws of my system is that it robs me of the privilege of reading much brilliant writing. For instance, I am compelled, by my system, wholly to abstain from studying those articles upon dramatic matters contributed to a well-known journal by your friend Mr G***** B****** S***— of whom I protest I am, in general, a warm admirer.
Page 427 - I look upon my letters as some of my chef-d'ceuvres ; and, could I be supposed to have the least pretensions to propriety of style or sentiment, I should imagine it must appear principally in my letters to his brother, and one or two more friends.
Page 303 - All for a crown. The prince who shames a tyrant's name to bear, Shall never dare do anything but fear; All the command of sceptres quite doth perish If it begin religious thoughts to cherish: Whole empires fall, swayed by those nice respects; It is the licence of dark deeds protects Ev'n states most hated: when no laws resist The sword, but that it acteth what it list.
Page 533 - Or be obliged to sneak into the side-box, and between both houses steal two acts of a play, and because we han't money *to see the other three, we come away discontented, and damn the whole five.