Das Hauptthema des Gedichts, die vereitelte Liebe eines jungen Paares, das mit sozialen Vorurteilen konfrontiert ist, würde sich tatsächlich auf eine Episode in Mistrals Leben beziehen.
This more or less a collection of very diverse essays by Chesterton, which means it's obviously a delight and fully of delicious rhetoric, important points, brilliant insights, clever jokes, common sense, and Chesterton just being Chesterton.
An Account of twelve Years intimate Relations with the primitive Eskimo of Ice-Bound Baffin Land with a Description of their Ways of Living, Hunting, Customs & Beliefs.
Excerpt: "e;The writer, having been ill in the early part of 1869, was advised by physicians and friends to try the effect of foreign travel; but in what direction it was difficult to decide.
The Navy Eternal by Bartimeus offers a poignant exploration into the lives of naval officers during World War I, blending personal anecdotes with broader themes of duty, sacrifice, and camaraderie.
Excerpt: "e;Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as speculative geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most of the maritime powers of Europe.
Excerpt: "e;The last report of the three Commissioners for winding up (this is a misnomer) the affairs of the bankrupt Freedmen's Bank, brought out in response to a resolution of Congress, introduced by the Honorable Nicholas Muller, of New York, is one of the most remarkable documents ever given to the American people.
We call the reader's attention to a scene, that, if not romantic, is at least attractive and interesting; a wagon-train of emigrants, as is attested by the quantity of driven stock-horses, cattle and sheep.
Excerpt: "e;In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of "e;the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses.
Die besten Gedichte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) - einem deutschen Dichter (Epoche des Sturm und Drangs und der Weimarer Klassik), Dramatiker, Romancier, Naturforscher, Staatsmann, Theaterdirektor, Kritiker und Amateurkünstler.
Excerpt: "e;This book is a frank criticism of most of the dominant ideas and institutions of our time: a confession of faith in nearly all the more daring heresies which hold, so to say, the firing line of our literature: a conception of a new social order and new planetary arrangement.
Die aufregendsten Begebenheiten in der Kunstgeschichte der letzten dreißig Jahre, die widerspruchsvollsten Äußerungen der Zeitgenossen über Künstler und Kunstwerke und schließlich der entscheidende Sieg von Anschauungen, die der Kunst am Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts die charakteristische Physiognomie gegeben, stehen im unmittelbarsten Zusammenhänge mit dem Dasein von zwei Malern, an deren Bedeutung heute nur noch Übelwollende oder gegen alle Entwicklung sich Abschließende zweifeln können.
Excerpt: "e;I have made no attempt in these pages to review the splendors of the past, or to probe the many vital questions which concern the present, of this wondrous City of the Sea.
Excerpt: "e;This little volume contains a brief account of the most important events in the life-career of two notable spies in our War for Independence, NATHAN HALE and JOHN ANDRE.
Excerpt: "e;"e;We were a jolly pair, we two, and ladies at that; and we had decided to go, amid the protestations of the towns-people and the remarks of Madam Grundy that it was not proper, and that there were so many tramps it was not prudent for two ladies to take a trip with their horse and carriage along the North Shore.
My Reminiscences of East Africa is an autobiographical work by General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a German military officer best known for his leadership during World War I in the German East Africa campaign.
Excerpt: "e;Six years have passed since the grave at Renthendorf closed over the remains of my esteemed father, whose death-all too early-was as great a loss to Science as to those who loved and honoured him.
