| Heinrich Heine - England - 1856 - 486 pages
...red coated rascal who forces his way to her bedroom—let him do so as a gallant or as a catch poll. The Frenchman loves liberty as his bride. He burns...contrary trifle vexes us there ; like boys we are always long to rush forth into the wide world, and when we finally find ourselves out in the wide world, we... | |
| Heinrich Heine - German literature - 1863 - 500 pages
...red coated rascal who forces his way to her bedroom—let him do so as a gallant or as a catch poll. The Frenchman loves liberty as his bride. He burns...contrary trifle vexes us there; like boys we are always long to rush forth into the wide world, and when we finally find ourselves out in the wide world, we... | |
| Heinrich Heine - 1891 - 504 pages
...it is in a different manner from other people. The Englishman loves liberty as his lawful wife, and if he does not treat her with remarkable tenderness,...the wide world; and when we finally find ourselves out in the wide world, we find it a world too wide, and often yearn in secret for the narrow stupidities... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...gallant or as a catchpoll. The Frenchman loves liberty as his bride. He burns for her; he is aflame; he casts himself at her feet with the most extravagant...the wide world; and when we finally find ourselves out in the wide world, we find it a world too wide, and often yearn in secret for the narrow stupidities... | |
| Heinrich Heine - 1906 - 508 pages
...to defend her like a man, and woe to the red-coated rascal who forces his way to her bedroom—let him do so as a gallant or as a catchpoll. The Frenchman...the wide world; and when we finally find ourselves out in the wide world, we find it a world too wide, and often yearn in secret for the narrow stupidities... | |
| Lilian Dalbiac - Quotations - 1906 - 508 pages
...he is a Harne ; he casts himself at her f'eet with the most extravagant protestations ; he will Hght for her to the death ; he commits for her sake a thousand follies. The Gerraan love.i liberty äs though she were his old grandmother. . . . The splenetic Briton, weary of... | |
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