A Collegiate German Reader in Prose and Verse: With Copious Explanatory Notes and References to Worman's Complete and Elementary German Grammars, and Campbell's New German Course, and a Complete Vocabulary
A Collegiate German Reader in Prose and Verse: With Copious Explanatory Notes and References to Worman's Complete and Elementary German Grammars, and Campbell's New German Course, and a Complete Vocabulary
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...when a direct influence of superhuman powers upon the destinies of mortals was universally believed in, had a conespondingly stronger hold on the souls. Not satisfied with the knowledge attainable by material means, he madly plunges into the spiritual world and makes a pact with the devil (Mephistopheles), who, after ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...when a direct influence of superhuman powers upon the destinies of mortals was universally believed in, had a conespondingly stronger hold on the souls. Not satisfied with the knowledge attainable by material means, he madly plunges into the spiritual world and makes a pact with the devil (Mephistopheles), who, after hurling him through a life of shallow dissipation and sensual enjoyments, finally takes his still dissatisfied soul as his compensation. It is a striking feature, that the Evil Spirit, in this German legend, directs his attack, in Faust, against the very same weakness of mankind, as he did, in Eve, thousands of years ago, viz. the vain thirst for omniscience. And both times successfully. Goethe, like no one else, had a wonderful gift of expressing popular sentiment in strikingly popular language, which, though often colliding with the stern rules of grammar, is always beautiful and expressive in the highest degree 2. abe nun; the subject (tdj) is often omitted in brief and passionate ejaculations S., Viriftf rei; the termination ei in nouns often denotes scorn, e. g. Settclei, (c)crjmiereret, etc 4. ol3 toif- vulgar for rote 5. an btt vulgar and somewhat antiquated for an, gegcn, ungcfaljr 6. toaSi vulgar for ctwaS. Page ISO.--/. ilju' frumen, vulgar for frame. The verb U)un is frequently, though incorrectly, used to intensify another verb, often analogous to the English do in negative and interrogative sentences; a remnant of middle high German style 2. gicuuo, i. e. the moon. Page ISO. Note 3, 4. Page 134. Notes 1-6. The appeal is now not to moonshine, but the moon herself.. 3. SBurmc poetical for (c)firmer; Gr. 84, XIII; El. 196; see p. 127,4.. 4. HrBiitrri gen. plur., of ancestors or ancestral. Page 131.--/. J)a--ftincin, p
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