HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories
56 i^eine. THE EAGLE. His fellow-animals, men especially, imagine that the eagle cannot sing — they know not that he sings only when he is beyond their realm, and is too proud to have any but the sun for a listener. He is right; some of his feathered kindred down below might want to criticise his song. I have myself had experience how such criticism sounds. The hen standing on one leg clucks — the singer has no spirit; the turkey splutters out he is wanting in real earnestness; the dove coos — he knows nothing of true love ; the goose cackles— he is ignorant of science; the capon twitters—he is immoral; the bullfinch chirps — alas! he has no religion; the sparrow peeps — he is not productive enough ; hoopoes, magpies, owls, — all croak, screech, or caw. The nightingale alone joins not in the chorus of the critics; unconcerned about all the world, the red rose is her only thought and her only song, she hovers yearningly over it, and in the intensity of her joy falls upon the loved thorns, and bleeds and dies. AN APHORISM. Thought is unseen Nature, as Nature is unseen Thought.
^me, s7 MEN OF THOUGHT AND MEN OF AC TION. Mark this, ye haughty men of action. Ye are naught but the unconscious servants of the men of thought, who, oftentimes in the humblest obscurity, have marked out your tasks for you with the utmost exactitude. Maximilian Robespierre was only the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau — the bloody hand that from the womb of time drew forth the body whose soul Rousseau had created. Did the restless anxiety that embittered the life of Jean Jacques arise from a foreboding that his thoughts would require such a midwife to bring them into the world ? THE GERMANS, They are a speculative people, ideologists, a race of dreamers who look before and after, who live only in the past and future, and who have no pre- ^^^^•, . . . . The German has nothing for which to combat, and no sooner did he begin to suspect that there might be things the possession of which is desirable, than philosophical wiseacres taught him to doubt the existence of such things.
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- Page 366 and 367: 16 f^tint. THE COMING FRAY. The mus
- Page 368 and 369: 18 i^eine* VICTOR HUGO. Victor Hugo
- Page 370 and 371: 20 i^cine. Who twines in one wreath
- Page 372 and 373: 22 i$tmt. Plucks from His head the
- Page 374 and 375: 24 J^eine, SHAKESPEARE. Generous Na
- Page 376 and 377: 26 i^etne. CHRIST. Christ is the Go
- Page 378 and 379: 28 l^etne* THE DELIGHT OF LIVING. L
- Page 380 and 381: 30 f^tint. After her health we aske
- Page 382 and 383: 32 ^tint. in these sat the damned,
- Page 384 and 385: 34 "l^tmt. ENGLAND S UPPER TEN. Yes
- Page 386 and 387: 36 i^eine. That outpost is abandone
- Page 389 and 390: i^eine* zi JEWISH RELIGION AND RACE
- Page 391 and 392: ^dnt. 39 like a great German tom-ca
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- Page 395 and 396: i^eme* 43 He sees na the black rock
- Page 397 and 398: ^tint. 45 When I see the amorous fl
- Page 399 and 400: I^etne* 47 Grete and Hans were wed
- Page 401 and 402: i^eine, 49 THE EASTERN QUESTION. Th
- Page 403 and 404: ^tmt. 51 MARTIN LUTHER. How shall I
- Page 405 and 406: ipeine. 53 wine is always exquisite
- Page 407: J^eme^ 55 FRENCH POLITENESS. Sweet
- Page 411 and 412: ^tmt. 59 '• When frosts set in,"
- Page 413 and 414: I^etne* 6\ SUPREMACY OF LOVE. Now,
- Page 415 and 416: I^eine* 63 BIMIXI. Who's with me fo
- Page 417 and 418: ^tint. 65 of cmel tenderness, she k
- Page 419 and 420: 1$tm. 67 GERMAN PHILOSOPHY. German
- Page 421 and 422: J^eine, 69 He speaks the exorcism d
- Page 423 and 424: a^dnt. 71 A RESURRECTION DREAM. Nig
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- Page 427 and 428: 1$eim. 75 GREAT MEN. As the stars a
- Page 429: MATHILDE HEINE.
- Page 432 and 433: 78 i$tmt. IN THE HARBOR. Happy is h
- Page 434 and 435: 8o J^eine, TEMPTATION Cleopatra is
- Page 436 and 437: 82 J^ehtf, HEINE AND ROMAN CATHOLIC
- Page 438 and 439: $4 i^etne. POETIC THRIFT. "Worthy f
- Page 440 and 441: 86 ^eint. . TAKE HEART. Heart, my h
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- Page 444 and 445: 90 I^eine* THE FUTURE. The future s
- Page 446 and 447: 92 J^eine* SWEET DELUSION. Ah, what
- Page 448 and 449: 94 l^eme. A MEETING. All under the
- Page 450 and 451: 96 i^eine* MYSTERY OF THE JEWS. The
- Page 452 and 453: 98 ^dnt. BRITISH MISSIONS. They exp
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MEN OF THOUGHT AND MEN OF AC<br />
TION.<br />
Mark this, ye haughty men of action.<br />
Ye are naught but the unconscious servants<br />
of the men of thought, who,<br />
oftentimes in the humblest obscurity,<br />
have marked out your tasks for you<br />
with the utmost exactitude. Maximilian<br />
Robespierre was only the hand<br />
of Jean Jacques Rousseau — the bloody<br />
hand that from the womb of time drew<br />
forth the body whose soul Rousseau had<br />
created. Did the restless anxiety that<br />
embittered the life of Jean Jacques<br />
arise from a foreboding that his thoughts<br />
would require such a midwife to bring<br />
them into the world ?<br />
THE GERMANS,<br />
They are a speculative people, ideologists,<br />
a race of dreamers who look before<br />
and after, who live only in the<br />
past and future, and who have no pre-<br />
^^^^•, . . . . The German has<br />
nothing for which to combat, and no<br />
sooner did he begin to suspect that<br />
there might be things the possession of<br />
which is desirable, than philosophical<br />
wiseacres taught him to doubt the existence<br />
of such things.
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