The Westminster Review, Volume 12Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1829 - English literature |
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... Friesland . It has been now and then the subject of inquiry among philologists . More than a century and a half ago , it excited especially the attention of Franciscus Junius , who spent some years in the country for the purpose of ...
... Friesland . It has been now and then the subject of inquiry among philologists . More than a century and a half ago , it excited especially the attention of Franciscus Junius , who spent some years in the country for the purpose of ...
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... Friesland , one of whose prominent objects is the cultivation of the national or rather provincial idiom , which has within a short time received the interesting contributions whose titles are the head of this article , and which may be ...
... Friesland , one of whose prominent objects is the cultivation of the national or rather provincial idiom , which has within a short time received the interesting contributions whose titles are the head of this article , and which may be ...
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In a large part of ancient Friesland the language has left no traces behind it in the present day . In East Friesland it has been superseded by the Low German , or Platt - teutsch , and in Groningen by the common Dutch , modified by a ...
In a large part of ancient Friesland the language has left no traces behind it in the present day . In East Friesland it has been superseded by the Low German , or Platt - teutsch , and in Groningen by the common Dutch , modified by a ...
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... Friesland - Friesland hast thou known , Who hast seen many a land , used many a tongue ; All have their faults and virtues ; we our own ; Yet know to good the Frisian heart is strung . And Friesland sheds its rays of glory bright , Has ...
... Friesland - Friesland hast thou known , Who hast seen many a land , used many a tongue ; All have their faults and virtues ; we our own ; Yet know to good the Frisian heart is strung . And Friesland sheds its rays of glory bright , Has ...
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... Friesland . It is , as it professes to be , a sort of upgathering of scraps , both of prose and of poetry , and in- dependently of its interest as a specimen of language , has real literary merit . But it was rather to give some ...
... Friesland . It is , as it professes to be , a sort of upgathering of scraps , both of prose and of poetry , and in- dependently of its interest as a specimen of language , has real literary merit . But it was rather to give some ...
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Page 21 - Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Page 282 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 12 - ALL thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower. The moonshine, stealing o'er the scene, Had blended with the lights of eve; And she was there, my hope, my joy, My own dear Genevieve!
Page 15 - twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 24 - The harmless Albatross. The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.
Page 16 - Such a soft floating witchery of sound As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve Voyage on gentle gales from Fairy-Land, Where Melodies round honey-dropping flowers, Footless and wild, like birds of Paradise, Nor pause, nor perch, hovering on untamed wing ! O the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul...
Page 24 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Page 15 - Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams Feeling himself, his own low self the whole ; When he by sacred sympathy might make The whole one self! self, that no alien knows! Self, far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self, spreading still ! Oblivious of its own, Yet all of all possessing...
Page 26 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 15 - ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees ; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, everywhere Eternal strength and wisdom are.