Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs Aphorismen: nach den handschriften, Volume 123

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Page xxi - On the opposite shore you will find rocks and cliffs of stupendous height, hanging broken over the lake in horrible grandeur, some of them a thousand feet high, the woods climbing up their steep and shaggy sides, where mortal foot never yet approached. On these dreadful heights the eagles build their nests; a variety of water-falls are seen pouring from their summits, and tumbling in vast sheets from rock to rock in rude and terrible magnificence...
Page 147 - Amo, Amas, I love a lass As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
Page 122 - They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turn'd ; Till on those cursed engines...
Page 159 - HERE continueth to rot The Body of FRANCIS CHARTRES, Who with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of Life, PERSISTED, In spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, In the Practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE; Excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY : His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first, His matchless IMPUDENCE from the second.
Page xxix - Il y avait longtemps que je voulais essayer si je pourrais faire une tragédie avec cette simplicité d'action qui a été si fort du goût des anciens. Car c'est un des premiers préceptes qu'ils nous ont laissés : « Que ce que vous ferez, dit Horace, soit toujours simple et ne soit qu'un.
Page 197 - ... qualibet, und das Geld, das ihm der Band einbringt, ist ihm gar nicht zuwider. Überhaupt können die Herrn uns sämtlich Dank wissen, daß wir ihnen Gelegenheit geben, einige Bogen zu füllen und sich bezahlen zu lassen, ohne großen Aufwand von produktiver Kraft.
Page 159 - Than successful in Accumulating WEALTH. For, without TRADE or PROFESSION, Without TRUST of PUBLIC MONEY, And without BRIBE-WORTHY Service, He acquired, or more properly created, A MINISTERIAL ESTATE.
Page 193 - The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World) containing an Account of the great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746.
Page iii - Nachdem er den Shakespeare - und so wie er ihn - gelesen hatte, war er schon kein gemeiner und alltäglicher Mensch mehr...
Page 221 - Klassizismus hatte ergehen lassen, 1763 die ,Abhandlung von der Fähigkeit der Empfindung des Schönen in der Kunst und dem Unterrichte in derselben...