 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...storms recorded on the bells themselves, and brings us at the s.tme time to the subject of inscriptions. Vivos voco — Mortuos plango — Fulgura frango....living — I mourn the dead — I break the lightning. This brief and impressive announcement was common to very many church-bells of the middle ages, and... | |
 | Gustav Solling - 1863 - 436 pages
...keinei wieder. SONG OF THE BELL. — (Die GLOCKE.) Schiller's greatest lyric poem bears the motto : ' Vivos voco, ' mortuos plango, fulgura frango, (I call the living, I mourn over the dead, and break the lightning). We assist here at the founding of a bell. PLOT. The master-founder,... | |
 | Gustav Solling - 1863 - 444 pages
...keiues wieder. SONG OP THE BELL.—(Die GLOCKE.) Schiller's greatest lyric poem bears the motto: ' Vivos voco, ' mortuos plango, fulgura frango, (I call the living, I mourn over the dead, and break the lightning). We assist here at the founding of a be.ll. PLOT. various stages... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1870 - 964 pages
...picturesque appearance. It contains little to detain the traveler. The principal building is the Cathedral, erected between the llth and 14th centuries : it is...which dates back nearly four centuries: " Vivos voco, mortaos plango, fulgura frango" (1 call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightning).— Schiller's... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1868 - 868 pages
...beautifully commemorated in Schiller's " Song of the Bell." This wonderful song has for its motto, — "Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango." (I call...living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightning.) These words were frequently inscribed on bells in the middle ages, as well as others, which will be... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1873 - 546 pages
...accordance with the character of the theme treated. A Latin motto was prefixed to the piece ; Vivos ooco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango, 'I call the living, I mourn the dead, I breafc the thunderbolts.' These are words cast as motto upon the great bell of the Cathedral at Schaffhausen,... | |
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - 1874 - 552 pages
...picturesque appearance. It contains little to detain the traveler. The principal building is the Cathedral, erected between the llth and 14th centuries : it is...four centuries : "Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura f rango" (I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightning). — Schiller's Poems. The Castle... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...purse-proud you corno in. You'll go a sad ninkum from outgo of income ! INSCRIPTIONS ON BELL8. Vivo* coco — Mortuos plango— Fulgura frango. I call the living— I mourn the dead — I break the lightning. This brief and impressive announcement — the motto of Schiller's ever-memorable Song of the Bell... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...tin, purse-proud you come in. You'll go a sad ninkum from outgo of income ! INSCRIPTIONS ON BELLS. Vivos voco — Mortuos plango — Fulgura frango....living— I mourn the dead — I break the lightning. This brief and impressive announcement — the motto of Schiller's ever-memorable Song of the Bell... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 544 pages
...with the character of the theme treated. A Latin motto was prefixed to the piece ; Vivos косо, mortuos plango, fulgura frango, 'I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the thunderbolts.' These are words cast as motto upon the great bell of the Cathedral at Schaffhausen,... | |
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