A History of English Poetry From the Aesthetic Point of View Part I the Period
A History of English Poetry From the Aesthetic Point of View Part I the Period
Hans Christian Peterson
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The typical figures for this class are the numerous modern expressions like "The rolling stone gathers no moss" "All is not gold that glitters", "Die Suppe wird nie so heiss gegessen wie sie gekocht ist". Let us consider the first of these examples. The person who in conversation says "A rolling stone gathers no moss" does in reality not make any statement about a stone and moss at all. His hearers do not offer the stone and moss a thought. What he does mean they should grasp, and what they do ...grasp, is that "a wandering youth accumulates no substance". This is what he intended to say; the illustration that came to him, and that he said instead was the fact about the stone. The two pictures or parallel series of circumstances must have presented themselves to his imagination thus: — the youth lit. the stone spir. — 25 — Hugh tlif figure were of class I - \ in nil j»ru- l>al»ilit\ is ti . »r crooked t I I slowly moving ■ton, Hut when hf comes to express this idea he does it thus: — spir.
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