The Life and Works of Mrs. Therese Robinson (Talvj)Deutsch-amerikanische historische Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1913 - 148 ページ |
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Alexander von Humboldt American literature appeared ballads Bancroft became Bibliotheca Sacra Brauns century character Charakteristik der Volkslieder civilization Colonisation von Neu considered criticism Duponceau early Edward Robinson England English epic especially Europe expression fact feeling felt field Gaelic German German ideals German language Gesammelte Novellen Goethe Graham's Magazine Grund Heloise Herder human Humboldt idea Illinois Indian language influence intellectual interest Jakob Grimm Karl Follen Klothilde Klothilde's Koerner lack later letter Lieder literary Macpherson Macpherson's Ossian magazines manuscripts ment national culture nature North American Review novel original Ossian poems poetic political popular poetry possessed present Preussische Jahrbücher primitive Puritans readers realize remarkable says scholars scientific Sealsfield seemed Servian significant slavery Slavic Nations songs sources spirit Talvj ten lost tribes theology Therese thought tion translation truth University whole Wilhelm von Humboldt woman writers wrote York
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67 ページ - I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions into a whole. I have hit upon a measure, too, which I think the right and only one for such a theme.
53 ページ - And yet,' say those injured people, 'these white men would always be telling us of their great Book which God had given to them; they would persuade us that every man was good who believed in what the Book said, and every man was bad who did not believe in it. They told us a great many things, which, they said, were written in the good Book, and wanted us to believe it all. We would probably have done so, if we had seen them practise what they pretended to believe, and act according to the good words...
53 ページ - ... done so, if we had seen them practise what they pretended to believe, and act according to the good words which they told us. But no ! while they held their big Book in one hand, in the other they had murderous weapons, guns and swords, wherewith to kill us, poor Indians ! Ah ! and they did so too, they killed those who believed in their Book, as well as those who did not. They made no distinction...
58 ページ - The English for every Indian word or phrase stands in a straight line directly against the Indian: yet sometimes there are two words for the same thing (for their Language is exceeding copious, and they have five or six words sometimes for one thing) and then the English stands against them both; for example in the second leafe.
67 ページ - ... rich and the genteel. Popular poetry, — we do not mean that divine gift, the dowry of a few blessed individuals ; we mean that general productiveness, which pervades the mass of men as it pervades Nature, — popular poetry, among all the nations of Europe, is only a dying plant. Here and there a lonely relic is discovered among the rocks, preserved by the invigorating powers of the mountain air ; or a few sickly plants, half withered in their birth, grow up in some solitary valley, hidden...
14 ページ - To effect this great and necessary work, let one of the first acts of the new Congress be to establish within the district to be allotted for them a federal university, into which the youth of the United States shall be received after they have finished their studies and taken their degrees in the colleges of their respective states.
53 ページ - We would probably have done so, if we had seen them practice what they pretended to believe, and act according to the good words which they told us. But no! While they held their big Book in one hand, in the other, they had murderous weapons, guns and swords wherewith to kill us, poor Indians. Ah! and they did so, too; they killed those who believed in their Book, as well as those who did not. They made no distinction...
87 ページ - ... public libraries, in accessibility to the old pamphlets and original evidence of all sorts, has also helped and led to a desire for knowledge of the actual events. Lapse of time, too, is no doubt having its effect in lessening the supposed inadvisability of letting all about the Revolution be known. Within the last two years in writing a life of Daniel Webster I had occasion to examine the original evidence of our history from the War of 1812 to the Compromise of 1850; and I found that it had...
142 ページ - Handbuch einer Geschichte der slavischen Sprachen und Literatur nebst einer Skizze ihrer Volks-Poesie von Talvj. Mit einer Vorrede von Edward Robinson.
74 ページ - All that the other Slavic nations, or the Germans, the Scotch, and the Spaniards, possess of popular poetry, can at the utmost be compared with the lyrical part of the Servian songs, called by them female songs, because they are sung only by females and youths ; but the long epic extemporized compositions, by which a peasant bard, sitting in a large circle of other peasants, in unpremeditated but perfectly regular and harmonious verse, celebrates the heroic deeds of their ancestors or cotemporaries,...