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At Zorndorf he again distinguished himself, but at the surprise of Hochkirch fell wounded into the hands of the Austrians. Two years later, soon after his release, his wound proved mortal. AUTHORITIES. Varnhagen von Ense, Preuss. biographische Denkmale, vol. ii.
Countess Lulu von Thurheim, My Life, 1788-1852. German edition, Munich, 1913-14. Grafen von Montgelas, Denwürdigkeiten des bayrischen Staatsministers Maximilian. See also Dr. Karl Soll, Der Wiener Kongress. Varnhagen von Ense. Friedrich von Gentz. Dr. Karl Soll, Count Carl von Nostitz. Cf. Dr. Karl Soll, Der Wiener Kongress. Dr. Karl Soll, Friedrich von Gentz. Dr.
It is not likely that such a keen and cynical observer as Heinrich Heine would have written as he did concerning Lassalle, had not the latter been a brilliant and magnetic youth. Heine wrote to Varnhagen von Ense, the German historian: My friend, Herr Lassalle, who brings you this letter, is a young man of remarkable intellectual gifts.
Varnhagen von Ense had described his mingled surprise and admiration at seeing those "lively, impudent, mean-looking little fellows," who had beaten the splendid soldiers trained in the school of Frederick the Great. His wonder was natural; but all who looked beneath the surface well knew that Prussia was overthrown before the first shot was fired.
Varnhagen von Ense tells us how Continental gentlemen envied the social usage which permitted Lord Castlereagh, in 1815, to show off his bruising ability at the expense of a Viennese cabman probably some consumptive feather-weight, and certainly a man who had never seen a scrapping-match in his life.
His was an ense rescindendum; but that of Horace was a pleasant cure, with all the limbs preserved entire, and, as our mountebanks tell us in their bills, without keeping the patient within doors for a day. What they promise only, Horace has effectually performed. Yet I contradict not the proposition which I formerly advanced.
"It would be difficult to imagine any greater awkwardness than that of Napoleon in a drawing-room. Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewaehlte Schriften," III., 177. When he smiled, it was only with the mouth and a portion of the cheeks; the brow and eyes remained immovably sombre,... This compound of a smile with seriousness had in it something terrible and frightful." On one occasion, at St.
Hear what Varnhagen Von Ense says on this point "The inward character of this man, the fundamental impulses of his nature, the merit or the results of his intellectual activity, have as yet found none to describe them in such a manner as he has often succeeded in describing others. It is not every body's business to attempt an anatomy and re-combination of this kind.
London, 1835. Reprinted in America, 1841. "I would not have you pin your faith too closely to these SCHLEGELS," said FICHTE one day at Berlin to VARNHAGEN VON ENSE, or one of his friends, in his own peculiar, cutting, commanding style "I would not have you pin your faith to these Schlegels. I know them well. The elder brother wants depth, and the younger clearness.
I think that Storer, John St. John, and I, shall set out in about ten days. My coach, cloak, and muff are ready. Adieu most affectionately. I do not mean by this to limit, but the ense recidendum; every other parti is delusive and childish. See ante, note 105. He was educated at Eton and Oxford; called to the Bar in 1769.
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