Gotthold Ephraim Lessings sämtliche schriften: bd. Laokoon. Hamburgische dramaturgie. 1. bd. 1893

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G.J. Göschen, 1893
 

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Page 140 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 140 - 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 140 - Thou, Nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom, and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother ? Why bastard...
Page 140 - Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us With base? with baseness?
Page 103 - Olympiacae miratus praemia palmae. pascit equos, seu quis fortes ad aratra iuvencos, 50 corpora praecipue matrum legat. 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 168 - Agesilao, fugatis jam ab eo conductitiis catervis, reliquam phalangem loco vetuit cedere, obnixoque genu scuto, projectaque hasta impetum excipere hostium docuit. Id novum Agesilaus contuens, progredi non est ausus, suosque jam incurrentes tuba revocavit. Hoc usque eo tota Graecia fama celebratum est, ut illo statu Chabrias sibi statuam fieri voluerit, quae publice ei ab Atheniensibus in foro constituta est. Ex quo factum est, ut postea athletae, ceterique artifices his statibus in statuis ponendis...
Page 51 - Polymetis, or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the antient Artists, being an Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In ten Books, by the Revd. Mr. Spence. London, printed for Dodsley. fol.
Page 122 - Bianca neve è il bel collo, e '1 petto latte: II collo è tondo, il petto colmo e largo: Due pome acerbe, e pur d'avorio fatte, Vengono, e van come onda al primo margo, Quando piacevole aura il mar combatte...
Page 140 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?
Page 392 - L'Élide.... répondez.... Narbas vous est connu? Le nom d'Égisthe au moins jusqu'à vous est venu? Quel était votre état, votre rang, votre père?

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