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Aber nicht vie die Aegypter formirte er seine Kunstwerke aus Backstem und Granit, sondern er baute Menchen-pyramiden, er meisselte Menschen Obelisken, ernahm einen armen Hirtenstamm und Schuf daraus ein Volk, das ebenfalls den Jahrhahunderten, trotzen sollte * er Schuf Israel." HEINE: Gestandnisse. Imagine the difference in Deronda's state of mind when he left England and when he returned to it.
We measure the total character of the universe as we feel it, against the flavor of the philosophy proffered us, and one word is enough. "Statt der lebendigen Natur," we say, "da Gott die Menschen schuf hinein" that nebulous concoction, that wooden, that straight-laced thing, that crabbed artificiality, that musty schoolroom product, that sick man's dream! Away with it. Away with all of them!
Brother, brother! the letter, the letter! What's the matter? You have grown as pale as a whitewashed wall! CHARLES VON M. My brother's hand! SCHW. What the deuce is Spiegelberg about there? GRIMM. The fellow's mad. He jumps about as if he had St. Vitus' dance. SCHUF. His wits are gone a wool gathering! He's making verses, I'll be sworn! RAZ. Spiegelberg! Ho! Spiegelberg! The brute does not hear.
All that had the use of their legs had gone forth in the sight, and nothing remained at home but the dregs of the city. CHARLES. Alas for the poor creatures! Sick people, sayest thou, old men and infants? SCHUF. Ay, the devil go with them!
Do you know, Schufterle, how many lives have been lost? SCHUF. Eighty-three, they say. The powder-magazine alone blew threescore to atoms. Roller, thou art dearly bought. SCHUF. Bah! bah! What of that?
"Strange," said I, "how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor." "Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe, Schade dass die Natur nur EINEN Mensch aus Dir schuf, Denn zum wuerdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.
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