Englische studien: Organ für englische philologie unter mitberücksichtigung des englischen unterrichts auf höheren schulen ..., Band 49

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Gebr. Henninger, 1916

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Seite 363 - A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
Seite 360 - I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. I had realised this for myself at the very dawn of my manhood, and had forced my age to realise it afterwards.
Seite 64 - IN writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I have not heard among the country people of Ireland, or spoken in my own nursery before I could read the newspapers. A certain number of the phrases I employ I have heard also from herds and fishermen along the coast from Kerry to Mayo or from beggar-women and ballad-singers nearer Dublin; and I am glad to acknowledge how much I owe to the folkimagination of these fine people.
Seite 195 - I go, and it is done : the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Seite 300 - s there ? What, ho ! Lady M. Alack ! I am afraid they have awaked, And 'tis not done. The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. Hark ! I laid their daggers ready He could not miss them.
Seite 201 - ... mes enfants les soins nécessaires à leur éducation, je vendrai mes livres; mais tu me resteras; tu me resteras sur le même rayon avec Moïse, Homère, Euripide et Sophocle...
Seite 79 - We are less children of this clime Than of some nation yet unborn Or empire in the womb of time. We hold the Ireland in the heart More than the land our eyes have seen, And love the goal for which we start More than the tale of what has been.
Seite 346 - But for the other part of the imputation of having said too much, my defence is, that my purpose was to say as well as I could : for since I never saw the Gentlewoman, I cannot be understood to have bound my self to have spoken just truths...
Seite 219 - And one day he came to me, as I was in the summer-house in the little garden, at work with my needle, and Mrs. Jervis was just gone from me ; and I would have gone out ; but he said — Don't go, Pamela ; I have something to say to you ; and you always fly me, when I come near you, as if you were afraid of me.
Seite 35 - Inez call'd some druggists and physicians, And tried to prove her loving lord was mad; But as he had some lucid intermissions, She next decided he was only bad...

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