"Wieland" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... am translating the 'Oberon' of Wieland; it is a difficult language, and I can translate at least as fast as I can construe. I have made also a very considerable proficiency in the French language, and study it daily, and daily study the German; so that I am not, and have ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... was to our own grandfathers. Very few, we suspect, of the accomplished men who, sixty or seventy years ago, used to dine in Leicester Square with Sir Joshua, or at Streatham. with Mrs. Thrale, had the slightest notion that Wieland was one of the first wits and poets, and Lessing, beyond all dispute, the first critic in Europe. Boileau knew just as little about the Paradise Lost, and about Absalom and Achitophel; but he had read Addison's Latin poems, and admired them greatly. They had given ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... vigorously constituted a being, the loss of energetic vitality caused by the quick succession of intense intellectual labour, and equally intense social enjoyment. It was at this period that the enchanting creations of Wieland and Ariosto were first presented to his young and glowing imagination. These poets are emphatically and essentially the poets of the young: the "white soul" of youth, as yet untinged with the colouring reflected ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... easily explained," said the duchess. "No other conveyance was to be had, and my good Wieland gave me his green overcoat to protect me from the pouring rain." [Footnote: True anecdote.—See Lewes' "Goethe's Life and ...
— Old Fritz and the New Era • Louise Muhlbach
... world lay wrapt in sleepless night, A jarring sound the startled hero wakes. * * * * * He hears a step draw near—in beauty's pride A female comes—wide floats her glistening gown— Her hand sustains a lamp...." Wieland's Oberon, translated by W. Sotheby, Canto XII. stanza ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron |
