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'This sublime and terrible phrase sums up the whole of Spanish history. Schiller was right; 'Immer der Krieg verschlingt die besten. We in England have suffered from this drain in the past; we shall suffer much more in the next generation. Aggressive patriotism is thus condemned by common sense and the verdict of history no less than by morality.
Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten. Still, when Schiller says in the poem just quoted, Ohne Wahl vertheilt die Gaben, Ohne Billigkeit das Glück, Denn Patroklus liegt begraben Und Thersites kommt zurück, his illustration is only half right. The Greek Thersites did not return to claim a pension. In the picture to which I refer, General LEE was the main figure.
Ich bin ein deutscher Dichter, Bekannt im deutschen Land; Nennt man die besten Namen So wird auch der meine genannt. Und was mir fehlt, du Kleine, Fehlt manchem im deutschen Land; Nennt man die schlimmsten Schmerzen, So wird auch die meine genannt! I have never seen but one beautiful thing in New York, and that is its mighty river in the night-time.
Succeeding bumpers finally dissipated entirely the resentment of the former jailer, and when they parted probably never to meet again he and his prisoner had become the best friends in the world. "Meine besten complimente der Frau Hauptmannin!" said Henri to him, in leaving him on the boulevard. "Lieber Gott! I shall take good care not to own to her that I dined with you." "And why, pray?"
Succeeding bumpers finally dissipated entirely the resentment of the former jailer, and when they parted probably never to meet again he and his prisoner had become the best friends in the world. "Meine besten complimente der Frau Hauptmannin!" said Henri to him, in leaving him on the boulevard. "Lieber Gott! I shall take good care not to own to her that I dined with you." "And why, pray?"
'Nennt man die besten Namen, So wird auch der meine genannt." She was flattered, but thought sadly of the sequel: "'Nennt man die schlimmsten Schmerzen, So wird auch der meine genannt'" as he went on: "That was why, though the German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul, I would not become naturalized here.
Succeeding bumpers finally dissipated entirely the resentment of the former jailer, and when they parted probably never to meet again he and his prisoner had become the best friends in the world. "Meine besten complimente der Frau Hauptmannin!" said Henri to him, in leaving him on the boulevard. "Lieber Gott! I shall take good care not to own to her that I dined with you." "And why, pray?"
With a confessed but none the less pathetic illogicality, they feel as though Death had not gone to work impartially, but had selected for his prey the noblest and the best. One of these survivors, in a paper now before me, quotes from Das Siegesfest the line "Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!" and then remarks: "Still, when Schiller says:
Ach Gott, min lewes, lewes Mutting, Ick wull, ick wihr man ut de Welt, Kann danzen nich, un kann nich spinnen Denn alle mine teigen Finger, De dohn mi so weh, De dohn mi so weh! Spinn doch, spinn doch, min lutt, lewes Dochting. Ick schenk Di ock'n bubschen Mann! Ach ja, min lewes, lewes Mutting, Schenk min lewsten, besten Mann.
[Footnote 30: The seventh and eighth volumes of Shandy, English edition, are reviewed in the first number of a short-lived Frankfurt periodical, Neue Auszüge aus den besten ausländischen Wochen und Monatsschriften, 1765. Unterhaltungen, a
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