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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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^tint. 45<br />

When I see the amorous flame<br />

Through your very waistcoat glow.<br />

GOETHE.<br />

Goethe holds the mirror up to nature,<br />

or rather, he is himself the mirror<br />

of nature. Nature, desiring to know<br />

how she looked, created Goethe.<br />

THE GREEKS, THE HEBREWS, AND THE<br />

ROMANS.<br />

This is how it is : as the Greek is<br />

great through his conception of art, the<br />

Hebrew through his belief in a most<br />

high God; so the Romans are gre^t<br />

through the idea of the eternal city,<br />

great wherever under the inspiration of<br />

this idea they have fought, or written,<br />

or built.<br />

ITALIAN BEAUTY AND ART.<br />

A physiognomist might easily detect,<br />

111 the ideality of their features, the influence<br />

of the plastic arts on the corpo-

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