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Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos, From the Prose of Heine; With a Few Pieces From the "book of Songs."
Wit Wisdom and Pathos From the Prose of Heine With a Few Pieces From the book of Songs Author:Heinrich Heine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: Cupples and Hurd Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / German Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Boo... more »ks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The power of Love is the most powerful of spells ; every other species of sorcery must yield to it. There is but one power against which it is helpless. What is that ? It is not fire, it is not water, it is not air, it is not the earth with all its metals; it is Time. The problems of The problem, the goal of Paganism, was PaganiMn and Christianity. fae attainment of happiness. The Greek hero calls it the Golden Fleece, the German hero the treasure of the Nibelungen. The task of Christianity, on the contrary, was abnegation, and its heroes endured the sufferings of martyrdom, they loaded the cross on their own shoulders, and from their mightiest combat their only gain was a grave. We can by no means forget that the Golden Fleece and the treasure of the Nibelungen brought great sufferings upon their possessors. But the error of these heroes was just this ; they mistook gold for happiness. As regards the thing of chief importance however, they were right. Man must be ever striving to acquire happiness on this earth, sweet happiness and not a cross. For the latter, alas ! he has but to wait till he reaches the churchyard ; then he will be sure to have placed over his grave -- a cross ! The Legend of This is the Legend of the Whispering the Whispering Valley. Valley, which lies near Lorch on the Rhine, and which takes its name from the whispering voicesthat sound in the wayfarer's ear as he passes through it. Through this valley came one day three young comrades in right gleeful mood, a...« less