Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Sämmtliche Schriften.., Volume 9

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In der Vossischen Buchhandlung., 1792 - German literature
 

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Page 340 - That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun And descant on mine own deformity; And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Page 256 - Optima torvae forma bovis, cui turpe caput, cui plurima cervix, et crurum tenus a mento palearia pendent ; tum longo nullus lateri modus; omnia magna, pes etiam; et camuris hirtae sub cornibus aures.
Page 339 - Who, in the lusty stealth of Nature, take More composition and fierce quality, Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired Bed, Go to creating a whole tribe of Fops, Got...
Page 339 - Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as gen'rous , and my shape as true As honest Madam's Issue?
Page 259 - ... the true Character of defcripti-ve poetry, as it is called. A compofition, in his opinion, as abfurd as a feaft made up of fauces. The...
Page 259 - ... of poetry, for the more level, and more frequented field of Ethics and of Satire. He declares, with a noble pride arifing from the probity of his intention, That not in Fancy's maze he wander'd long, But ftoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his long.
Page 84 - Terga dati, fuperant capite, et cervicibus altis. Ille fimul manibus tendit divellere nodos, Perfufus fanie vittas, atroque veneno; Clamores fimul horrendos ad fidera tollit : Qualis mugitus, fugit quum faucius aram Taurus, et incertam excuffit cervice fecurim.
Page 360 - Л и elm ; her face, which shone like the polished ebony, was beautifully varied with fpots of red earth, and appeared like the fable curtain of the night bespangled with (tars i she fprinkled her limbs with wood -ashes, and perfumed them with the dung of Stinkbingfcm.
Page 83 - Corripiunt, fpirifque liga« ingentibus: & jam Bis médium amplexi, bis collo fquamea circum Terga dati fuperant capite & cervicibus altis.
Page 188 - TABLEAUX tirés de l'Iliade , de l'Odifles d'Homère , & de l'Enéide de Virgile , avec des obfervations générales fur le Coftume» A Paris, chez Tilliard , Libraire, Quay des Auguftins , à S.

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