Palaestra: Untersuchungen und Texte aus der deutschen und englischen Philologie

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1905
 

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Seite lxxiv - Fables ; but have not set the last hand to them. Though they will not amount to half the number, I believe they will make much such another volume as the last. I find it the most difficult task I ever undertook ; but have determined to go through with it ; and, after this, I believe I shall never have courage enough to think any more in this way.
Seite lxxiv - Though this is a kind of writing that appears very easy, I find it is the most difficult of any that I ever undertook. After I have invented one fable, and finished it, I despair of finding out another ; but I have a moral or two more, which I wish to write upon.
Seite 55 - Then stood he up, and beheld the multitude, exhorting them, in most godly manner, to follow the laws of God, written in the scriptures, and in any wise to beware of such teachers as they see contrary to Christ in their conversation and living, with many other special counsels. Then was he hanged up there by the middle in chains of iron, and so consumed alive in the fire, praising the name of God so long as his life lasted.
Seite cxxii - His now-forgotten friend, a snail, Beneath his house, with slimy trail Crawls o'er the grass; whom when he spies, In wrath he to the gard'ner cries: 'What means yon peasant's daily toil, From choking weeds to rid the soil?
Seite cxxv - How learn'd was that sagacious breed ; Who now (like them) the Greek can read ? As one of these, in days of yore, Rummaged a shop of learning o'er...
Seite xxiii - And reed that boweth doun for every blast, Ful lightly, cesse wind, it wol aryse; But so nil not an ook whan it is cast; It nedeth me nought thee longe to forbyse.
Seite cxxi - Such is the country maiden's fright, When first a Red-coat is in sight; Behind the door she hides her face, Next time at distance eyes the lace : She now can all his terrors stand, Nor from his squeeze withdraws her hand.
Seite lxx - FABLES were the first pieces of wit that made their appearance in the world, and have been still highly valued not only in times of the greatest simplicity, but among the most polite ages of mankind.
Seite 54 - Thus were Christ's people betrayed every way, and their lives bought and sold by these most cruel thieves. For in the said parliament the king made this most blasphemous and cruel act, to be as a law for ever : That whatsoever they were, that should read the scriptures in the...
Seite 54 - Good Christian people, for God's love be well ware of these men, for they will else beguile you, and lead you blindfold into hell with themselves. For Christ saith plainly unto you, If one blind man leadeth another, they are like both to fall into the ditch.

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