Cosmopolis: An International Monthly Review ..., Volume 6T. F. Unwin, 1897 |
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Page 247 - Mein Freund, die goldne Zeit ist wohl vorbei; Allein die Guten bringen sie zurück. Und soll ich dir gestehen, wie ich denke: Die goldne Zeit, womit der Dichter uns Zu schmeicheln pflegt, die schöne Zeit, sie war, So scheint es mir, so wenig, als sie ist; Und war sie je, so war sie nur gewiß, Wie sie uns immer wieder werden kann.
Page 660 - Mazzini for a series of years ; and whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill in worldly affairs, I can with great freedom testify to all men that he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, a man of sterling veracity, humanity, and nobleness of mind, one of those rare men, numerable unfortunately but as units in this world, who are worthy to be called martyr souls...
Page 616 - Our Colonial Expansion" in high-flown language. It spoke much of the rights and duties of civilization, of the sacredness of the civilizing work, and extolled the merits of those who went about bringing light, and faith and commerce to the dark places of the earth.
Page 422 - ... vers cette conjonction suprême avec la probabilité celui son ombre puérile caressée et polie et rendue et lavée assouplie par la vague et soustraite aux durs os perdus entre les ais né d'un ébat la mer par l'aïeul tentant ou l'aïeul contre...
Page 339 - Vrildiscoverers ceased, for they brought the art of destruction to such perfection as to annul all superiority in numbers, discipline, or military skill. The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. If army met army, and both had command of this agency, it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of war was therefore gone, but with the cessation of war...
Page 73 - C.'s way of acting it. Nothing but his crimes, his actions, is visible; they are prominent and staring; the murderer stands out, but where is the lofty genius, the man of vast capacity, - the profound, the witty, accomplished Richard?
Page 339 - Sages, had studied such matters more diligently than any other member of my host's family, this fluid is capable of being raised and disciplined into the mightiest agency over all forms of matter, animate or inanimate. It can destroy like the flash of lightning; yet, differently applied, it can replenish or invigorate life, heal, and preserve; and on it they chiefly rely for the cure of disease, or rather for enabling the physical...
Page 418 - Aujourd'hui ou sans présumer de l'avenir qui sortira d'ici, rien ou presque un art, reconnaissons aisément que la tentative participe, avec imprévu, de poursuites particulières et chères à notre temps, le vers libre et le poème en prose.
Page 426 - N'AURA EU LIEU une élévation ordinaire verse l'absence QUE LE LIEU inférieur clapotis quelconque comme pour disperser l'acte vide abruptement qui sinon par son mensonge eût fondé la perdition dans ces parages du vague en quoi toute réalité se dissout...
Page 612 - ... brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart. To the sentiment of being alone of one's kind, to the clear perception of the loneliness of one's thoughts, of one's sensations — to the negation of the habitual, which is safe, there is added the affirmation of the unusual, which is dangerous; a suggestion of things vague, uncontrollable, and repulsive, whose discomposing intrusion excites the imagination and tries the civilized nerves of the foolish and the wise alike.