 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 ページ
...be composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom : the roots expand ; the jar is shivered....without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, shrinks beneath a burden it cannot bear and must not cast away. All duties are holy for him ; the present... | |
 | 1841 - 586 ページ
...sea! There is an oak tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom; the roots expand, the jar is shivered....moral nature, without the strength of nerve which makes a hero, sinks beneath a duty which it cannot bear and must not cast away. — GOETHE. THE BIBLE:... | |
 | 1842 - 610 ページ
...me to be composed. There is an oak planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. A lovely, pure, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which... | |
 | Henry Russell Cleveland, George Stillman Hillard - 1844 - 456 ページ
...me to be composed. There is an oak planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. A lovely, pure, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 ページ
...relative than this: The play's the thing." The indecision of Hamlet is thus described by Goethe : " A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without...burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away." The writer in ' Blackwood's Magazine' takes another view of this indecision, which, to our minds, is... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 ページ
...flgure — " An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom : the roots expand, the jar is shivered....without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath^a burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away." This is very fine, but is it true ?... | |
 | 1852 - 782 ページ
...composed. An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in rizon, in search of the most vague indications of land. Suddenly, ore holy for him ; the present is too hará. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not in themselves... | |
 | 1852 - 782 ページ
...borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered ! A lovely, pare, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength...away. All duties are holy for him ; the present is too bard. Impossibilities have been required of him ; not и themselves impossibilities, but such for him.... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - 492 ページ
...figure — " An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom : the roots expand, the jar is shivered....burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away." This is very fine, but is it true ? Does it open the lock of Hamlet's character ? Does it account foi... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1856 - 358 ページ
...figure: — "An oak-tree is planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom: the roots expand, the jar is shivered....burden which it cannot bear, and must not cast away." Tiiis is very fine, but is it true? Does it open the lock of Hamlet's character? Does it account for... | |
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A lovely, pure, noble and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away. 
