RHINE RIDICULE
Revolutions are not made; they come.
Revolutions never go backward.
Wendell Phillips—Speech. Progress. Feb.
17, 1861.
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
Seward—Speech on the Irrepressible Conflict.
Oct., 1858.
God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolutions of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea I
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 45.
Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
Tacitus—Annates. IV. 34.
RHINE
Sie sollen ihn nicht haben
DeD freien, deutschen Rhein.
You shall never have it,
The free German Rhine.
Becker—Der Rhein. Popular in 1840. Answered by Alfred de Mubset—Nous
Vaoons eu, voire Rhin Allemand. Appeared
in the Atheiweum, Aug. 13, 1870
The castled crag of Drachenfels,
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,
Whose breast of waters broadly swells
Between the banks which bear the vine,
And hills all rich with blossom'd trees,
And fields which promise corn and wine,
And scatter'd cities crowning these,
Whose far white walls along them shine.
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| work = Childe Harold. Cants III. St. 55.
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| text = Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben.
On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our
vines.
Claudius—Rheinweinlied.
The air grows cool and darkles,
The Rhine flows calmly on;
The mountain summit sparkles
In the light of the setting sun.
Heine—The Lorelei.
The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!
Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave,
O'er every obstacle to rave.
see the Rhine in his native wild
Is still a mighty mountain child.
Ruskin—A Tour on the Continent. Via Mala.
Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!
Dear Fatherland no danger thine,
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!
Max Schneckenburger—Die Wacht am
Rhein.
Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower,
The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;
Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the
plain,
And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!
Horace Wallace—Ode on the Rhine's Returning into Germany from France.
RHONE
Is it not better, then, to be alone,
And love Earth only for its earthly sake?
By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone
Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 71.
Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower
In chambers purple with the Alpine glow,
Wrapped in the spotless ermine of the snow
And rocked by tempests!
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| work = To the Rixer Rhone.
RICHES (See Money, Possession, Wealth)
RIDICULE
It frequently happens that where the second
line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to
rise still higher, is perfectly bombast.
Blair. Commenting on Lucan's style. Borrowed from Longinus—Treatise on the Sublime. Sect. III.
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attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly
imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can
find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the
test of truth."
Carlyle—Essays. Voltaire.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed
to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery
four-in-hand round the comer of nonsense.
Coleridge—Table Talk. Jan. 20,. 1834.
Wieland—Abdereiten. III. Ch. XII.
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| text = <poem>Jane borrow'd maxims from a doubting school,
And took for truth the test of ridicule;
Lucy saw no such virtue in a jest,
Truth was with her of ridicule the test.
Crabbe—Tales of the Hall. Bk. VIII. L. 126.
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| num = | text = <poem>I distrust, those sentiments that are too far
removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly. Deslaudes—Reflexions sur les Grands Hommes qui stmt marts en Plaisantant.
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