Deutsche volkslieder: a selection from German folk-songsHoratio Stevens White G. P. Putnam's sons, 1892 - 324 էջ |
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Deutsche volkslieder: a selection from German folk-songs Horatio Stevens White Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1892 |
Deutsche volkslieder: a selection from German folk-songs Horatio Stevens White Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1892 |
Deutsche Volkslieder: A Selection from German Folk-songs Horatio Stevens White Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1892 |
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Էջ x - So, on the contrary, an ordinary Song or Ballad that is the Delight of the common People, cannot fail to please all such Readers as are not unqualified for the Entertainment by their Affectation or Ignorance; and the Reason is plain, because the same Paintings of Nature which recommend it to the most ordinary Reader, will appear Beautiful to the most refined.
Էջ 325 - Literary Monthly. *' Nuggets indeed, and charming ones, are these rescued from the mine of old Latin, which would certainly have been lost to many busy readers who can only take what comes to them without delving for hidden treasures.
Էջ 277 - Ballads sprang from the very heart of the people, and flit from age to age, from lip to lip of shepherds, peasants, nurses, of all the class that continues nearest to the state of natural men.
Էջ x - There is even a despicable simplicity in the verse ; and yet, because the sentiments appear genuine and unaffected, they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings of humanity and compassion.
Էջ 326 - Such books as these will find their popularity confined to no one country, but they must be received with enthusiasm wherever art and literature are recognized.
Էջ 325 - II— Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey. By THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK . . . $i oo " It must have been the court librarian of King Oberon who originally ordered the series of quaintly artistic little volumes that Messrs. Putnam are publishing under the name of Knickerbocker Nuggets. There is an elfin dignity in the aspect of these books in their bindings of dark and light blue with golden arabesques.