The Bay View Magazine

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J. M. Hall., 1893
 

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Page 12 - Besides these two elements, a third is worked into the poem,— that of the Evil Spirit, working ruin and destruction; while the knights of the Grail spend their energy for the glory of God, and the cavaliers of Arthur follow their ambition for renown, and seek joy in female company; the Evil Spirit is planning destruction for both the spiritual and the worldly chivalry.
Page 28 - The Germans are divided into High and Low Germans ; the language of the former is the cultivated language of all the German states ; that of the latter, known as Platt-Deulsch, is spoken in the north and north-west.
Page 12 - Anforlas, unknown to him, is sick, but mindful of his instruction, he asks no questions, even about the beautiful and wonderful things around him. He does not imagine that the recovery of the sick lord of the castle and his own happiness depend on his asking the cause of sickness and sadness in the castle.
Page 12 - ... questions that have always occupied men's minds. " Parzival is a representative of the sinful man, who, trusting to his own powers, despairs of God and himself, and obtains the heavenly kingdom only by repentance and humility.
Page 9 - Gudrunlied, the second national epic, embodies the legends of the North Sea. Already known at the beginning of the twelfth century, it was worked over into its present form about 1210, by some now unknown poet. Probably he was from the South, and traveling northward, found these legends, which he transferred to parchment. At any rate, the poem has to do with the North and with Description tne races to which our forefathers belonged.
Page 6 - The location of the legends is along the coast and on the islands of the North Sea. The hero is HETEL, and his daughter, GUDRUN, is the heroine of the poem named for her.
Page 6 - Nihelungcnlied, which unites these four cycles in the greatest production of the Middle Ages. 5. Another cycle, which is the background of the second important poem of this epoch, is called the Norman- Saxon.
Page 18 - ... fear ; Of a death like nature fading In the autumn of the year ; Of a sweet and dreamless slumber, In a faith triumphant borne, Till the bells of Easter wake her On the resurrection morn ! Ah, for such a blessed falling Into quiet sleep at last, When the ripening grain is garnered, And the toil and trial past; When the red and gold of sunset Slowly changes into gray ; Ah, for such a quiet passing, Through the night into the day! The morning of the 22d day of November, 1863, began the saddest...
Page 15 - He knew the life that was about him, and applied Christianity to the times in which he lived. He was not so much concerned about what had been as what was.

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