Idioms of the German language, with the proverbs, compiled and transl1875 |
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according begin best better blind break cheat concerns country Danish death DIALECT Dutch English everything eyes fair fatherland fellow first Flemish fool friend geen geht German Idioms German Proverbs give Gjör gold good great Haar hand haste He has head heart help Herz honour hopes horse house Idioms and German Irish iſt James Clarence Mangan keep know knows land laſſen läßt learn leave life Lika little LLOYD long look love machen make Mann matter meddle Mensch mind money morgon muß never niet nimmermeer o'er one's ones peace people place possessed Rede rich right sagte Saxon says schlagen ſein show soll Solling soon sounds speak spoken Swedish Tacitus take thee there's thing think thou thun thut time tongue Tuatha de Danaans Tungrern unsere viel want water weather weiß Wind wine wisdom wise work world yser
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Strana 156 - ... nice ear, delicate of choice, Till we at last are pleased, or self-deceived. The whole a rabble's madness may destroy ; And this, when, after toil of many years, Touched and retouched, the perfect piece appears To challenge praise, or win unconscious tears, As the vain heart too easily believed ; Some sparkling, showy thing, got up in haste, Brilliant and light, will catch the passing taste. The truly great, the genuine, the sublime Wins its slow way in silence ; and the bard Unnoticed long,...
Strana 157 - Bears part with all in musical relation? Who to the tempest's rage can give a voice Like human passion? bid the serious mind Glow with the colouring of the sunset hours? Who in the dear path scatter spring's first flowers, When wanders forth the ladye of his choice?
Strana 182 - OH! true was his heart while he breathed, That King over Thule of old, So she that adored him bequeathed Him, dying, a beaker of gold. At banquet and supper for years has He brimmingly filled it up, His eyes overflowing with tears as He drank from that beaker-cup. When Death came to wither his pleasures He parceled his cities wide, His caslles, his lands, and his treasures, But the beaker he laid aside.
Strana 164 - Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Strana 173 - HOPE. • We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul, Of some better and fairer day ; And our days, the meanwhile, to that golden goal Are gliding and sliding away. Now the world becomes old, now again it is young, But " The Better" 's for ever the word on the tongue.
Strana 173 - s forever the word on the tongue. At the threshold of life Hope leads us in — Hope plays round the mirthful boy ; Though the best of its charms may with youth begin, Yet for age it reserves its toy. When we sink at the grave, why the grave has scope, And. over the coffin man planteth...
Strana 109 - ... strike while the iron is hot, make hay while the sun shines; spare the time for; cash in on, capitalize, exploit, turn to good account 673 use.
Strana 14 - Alla unsar thu in himinam, weihnai namo thein; quimai thiudinassus theins ; wairthai wilja theins swe in himina jah ana airthai; hlaif...
Strana 9 - These seven Saxon kingdoms (to which was given the collective name of England, from Angles, a tribe of Saxons, and land, the Saxon for country ; or from Anglen, a village near Schleswig belonging to Denmark, whence great numbers of the invaders came, the inhabitants of which were called...
Strana 183 - But the beaker he laid aside. They drank the red wine from the chalice. His barons and marshals brave; The monarch sat in his rock-palace Above the white foam of the wave. And now, growing weaker and weaker He quaffed his lasT; Welcome to Death, And hurled the golden beaker Down into the flood beneath. He...