...Lessing: a Brief Account of His Life and Writings with Representative Selections, Including Nathan the WiseSilver, Burdett, 1895 - 213 pages |
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Lessing: A Brief Account of His Life and Writings With Representative ... Euretta A. Hoyles No preview available - 2018 |
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Al-Hafi angel Anton Assad better brother called calm Camenz character Christian child Chrysander comes Conrade critic Daja Damis daughter DAYA dear deed dervis Dost drama Emilia Galotti fancy feel Filnek fire French FRIAR German girl give Goethe Gotthold GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING HAFI hand hear heart Herr Pastor hither IBRAHIM Jewess Juliane knight Laocoon Leipzig Lessing Lessing's literature look maid Mendelssohn methinks Minna von Barnhelm Moses Mendelssohn Mussulman NATHAN THE WISE NATHAN'S House ne'er never once patriarch perhaps play poet poetry poor prudent RECHA rich ring SALADIN saved scarcely SCENE Schiller sister SITTAH smile soon soul speak Stauffen sultan surely taught tears tell TEMPLAR thanks thee there's thine things thou art thou hast thou wilt thought thyself true truth wants wish Wolfenbüttel word worthy wrote young youth Zeus
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Page 124 - To vie with both his brothers in displaying The virtue of his ring; assist its might • With gentleness, benevolence, forbearance, With inward resignation to the godhead, And if the virtues of the ring Continue To show themselves among your children's children, After a thousand thousand years, appear Before this judgment-seat — a greater one Than I shall sit upon it, and decide.
Page 19 - ... man. For not by the possession, but by the investigation, of truth are his powers expanded, wherein alone his ever-growing perfection consists. Possession makes us easy, indolent, proud. — If God held all truth shut in His right hand, and in His left...
Page 121 - God and man belov'd, who in this view, and this persuasion, wore it. Was it strange the eastern man ne'er drew it off his finger, and studiously provided to secure it for ever to his house. Thus — He...
Page 124 - That the true ring should here unseal its lips? But hold — you tell me that the real ring Enjoys the hidden power to make the wearer Of God and man beloved; let that decide.
Page 121 - From son to son, At length this ring descended to a father Who had three sons alike obedient to him ; Whom, therefore, he could not but love alike. At times seemed this, now that, at times the third (Accordingly as each apart received The overflowings of his heart), most worthy To heir the ring, which, with good-natured weakness, He privately to each in turn had promised. This went on for a while. But death approached, And the good father grew embarrassed. So To disappoint two sons, who trust his...
Page 122 - Appears, and claims to be the lord o' th' house. Comes question, strife, complaint— all to no end ; For the true ring could no more be distinguish'd Than now can — the true faith.
Page 19 - For not by the possession, but by the investigation, of truth are his powers expanded, wherein alone his ever-growing perfection consists. Possession makes us easy, indolent, proud. " If God held all truth shut in his right hand, and in his left nothing but the ever-restless instinct for truth, though with the condition of for ever and ever erring, and should say to me, Choose ! I should bow humbly to his left hand, and say, Father, give ! pure truth is for Thee alone ! " It is not without reason...
Page 118 - What speak you of? — your wares ? My sister shall be called to bargain with you For them (so much for the sly listener) ; — I Have nothing to transact now with the merchant.
Page 115 - In my rude hand would break. It is for those That can contrive them to employ such weapons: They ask a practised wrist. But chance what may, Well as I can — SITTAH.
Page 119 - ... grounds of preference. Share then with me your insight — let me hear The grounds of preference, which I have wanted The leisure to examine — learn the choice, These grounds have motived, that it may be mine. In confidence I ask it. How you startle, And weigh me with your eye! It may well be I 'm the first sultan to whom this caprice, Methinks not quite unworthy of a sultan, Has yet occurred.