G. E. Lessing's gesammelte Werke, Volume 1

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G. J. Göschen, 1855

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Page 264 - Biblia en lengua espanola traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca por muy excelentes letrados. Vista y examinada por el officio de la Inquisition.
Page 338 - Hail, sacred princess ! Sprung from ancient kings, Our England's dearest hope, undoubted offspring Of York and Lancaster's united line; By whose bright zeal, by whose victorious faith Guarded and fenc'd around, our pure religion, That lamp of truth which shines upon our altars, Shall lift its golden Head and flourish long ; Beneath whose awful Rule, and righteous sceptre, The plenteous years shall roll in long succession ; Law shall prevail and ancient right take place, Fair liberty shall lift her...
Page 308 - ... approve, therefore, very much the devotion of a studious man at Christ-church, who was overheard in his oratory entering into a detail with God, as devout persons are apt to do, and, amongst other particular thanksgivings, acknowledging the divine goodness in furnishing the world with makers of dictionaries!
Page 287 - Componi tamen aliquid de se nisi et serio et a praestantissimis offendebatur, admonebatque praetores ne paterentur nomen suum commissionibus obsolefieri. XC. Circa religiones talem accepimus. Tonitrua et fulgura paulo infirmius expavescebat, ut semper et ubique pellem vituli marini circumferret pro remedio atque ad omnem maioris tempestatis suspicionem in • Religiones includes both religious belief and regard for omens and portents.
Page 372 - Sophoclis acturus gestare urnam quasi cum Orestis ossibus debebat. Ita compositum fabulae argumentum est, ut veluti fratris reliquias ferens Electra comploret commisereaturque interitum ejus, qui per vim extinctus existimatur.
Page 423 - Sed cum ad pila, ut appellant, venitur, et manu ad manum gladiis pugnatur, tunc dextros pedes inante milites habere debent: ut et latera eorum subducantur ab hostibus, ne possint vulnus accipere, et proximior dextra sit, quae plagam possit inferre.
Page 339 - Preserve thy holy altars undefil'd, " Protect this land from bloody men and idols, " Save my poor people from the yoke of Rome, " And take thy painful servant to thy mercy.
Page 372 - Igi'tur Polus lugubri habitu Electrae indutus ossa atque urnam a 25 sepulcro tulit filii et quasi Oresti amplexus opplevit omnia non simulacris ñeque imitamentis, sed luctu atque lamentis veris et spirantibus. Itaque cum agi fabula videretur, dolor actus est.
Page 368 - Messeniorum bellum, ne medium tempus otiosum Atheniensibus relinquerent, cum Thebanis paciscuntur, ut Boeotiorum imperium his restituèrent, quod temporibus Persici belli amiserant, ut illi Atheniensiiim 10 bella susciperent.
Page 368 - Utque ferae, sequitur vestigia conjugis amens : Deque sinu matris ridentem, et parva Learchum Brachia tendentem, rapit, et bis terque per auras More rotat fundae : rigidoque infantia saxo Discutit ossa ferox.

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