The Works of Heinrich Heine, Volume 5

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A M S Press, Incorporated, 1892
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Pagina 206 - These doctrines have developed revolutionary forces which only await the day to break forth and fill the world with terror and astonishment. There will be Kantians forthcoming who in the new world to come will know nothing of reverence for aught, and who will ~ ravage without mercy, and riot with sword and axe through the soil of all European life to dig out the last root of the past. There will be wellweaponed Fichteans on the ground, who in the fanaticism of the Will are not to be restrained by...
Pagina 335 - Paris fashion ; perfectly perfumed with good society and eau de millefleurs, he was neatness and refinement itself, and when he spoke of "the Lord Chancellor of England," he added " my friend," while by him stood a lackey in the most baronial livery of the house of Schlegel, who snuffed the tapers in the silver candelabras, while on the desk before the marvellous man was a glass of eau sucre.
Pagina 209 - Downer, our German thunder, has at last hit the mark. At that sound the eagles will fall dead from on high, the lions in remotest deserts in Africa will draw in their tails and creep into their royal caves. There will be played in Germany a drama compared to which the French Revolution will be only...
Pagina 206 - These doctrines," wrote Heine in 1834, " have developed revolutionary forces which only await the day to break forth and fill the world with terror and astonishment.
Pagina 208 - The old stone gods will rise from longforgotten ruin, and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes, and Thor, leaping to life with his giant hammer, will crush the Gothic cathedrals ! But when those days shall come, and ye hear the stamping and ring of arms, guard ye well, ye neighbours...
Pagina 46 - Bible, or by the arguments of reason," a new age has begun in Germany. The chain wherewith the holy Boniface bound the German church to Rome, has been hewn asunder.
Pagina 238 - I must, while praising the knowledge which can be gathered from that book, still advise great caution in consulting it, and stamp it as the work of a coterie. Madame de Stael, of glorious memory, has here, in the form of a book, opened a Salon in which she received German writers and gave them opportunity to become known to the civilised world of France; but in all the babble of many and most varied voices which resound from this book, on always hears most distinctly the fine treble of August Wilhelm...
Pagina 243 - As the lascivious memoirs of the last century form the pieces justificatives of the French Revolution, as the terrorism of a comite du salut public seems to be necessary physic when we read the confessions of the aristocratic world of France, so we recognize the wholesomeness of ascetic spiritualism when we read Petronius or Apuleius, which are to be regarded as the pieces justificatives of Christianity. The flesh had become so arrogant in this Roman world that it required Christian discipline to...
Pagina 258 - ... geniuses, and will last, it may be, till ended by political freedom. Lessing was more inspired by political feelings than men supposed, a peculiarity which we do not find among his contemporaries, and we can now see for the first time what he meant in sketching the duodespotism in Emilia Galotti. He was regarded then as a champion of freedom of thought and against clerical intolerance ; for his theological writings were better understood. The fragments On the Education of the Human Race, which...

Over de auteur (1892)

Charles Godfrey Leland was born in Philadelphia on August 15, 1824, the eldest child of commission merchant Charles Leland and his wife Charlotte. Leland loved reading and language. When he moved to Europe to study law, he became intrigued with German culture, gypsy lore, the language of Romany, and Shelta, an ancient dialect spoken by Irish and Welsh gypsies. After his law studies were completed, Leland became a journalist, working for such periodicals as P.T. Barnum's Illustrated News, Vanity Fair, and Graham's Magazine. The mid-to-late 1850s were very eventful for Leland; he published his first book, Meister Karl's Sketch-Book in 1855 and married Eliza Bella Fisher in 1856. What probably clinched his fame was "Hans Breitmann's Party" a German dialect poem that he wrote under the pen name Hans Breitmann and that captured the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect and humor. While he was best known for his essays, poetry, and humor, Leland also firmly believed that the industrial arts were the keys to a good education, and he wrote many textbooks on the subject. Leland spent most of the latter part of his life in Europe, writing a wealth of books. He died in Florence, Italy, on March 20, 1903.

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