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For all he knows, the cows could chew the ears off my head." "The scoundrel has seen us," said another. "Tomorrow you'll go on a trip with a stone about your neck," Frederick went on, and kicked at the dog. "Frederick, don't act like a fool! You know me, and you understand me too!" A look accompanied these words, which had an immediate effect. "Mr. Brandes, think of my mother!"
It is this which elevates him above all writers who only deal with the outer world as they find it, and add nothing to it from their own natures. George Brandes, the Danish critic and essayist, speaks of Hawthorne somewhere as "the baby poet;" but we suspect that if he had ever met the living Hawthorne, he would have stood very much in awe of him.
God forbid! Must I spank you? Who tells you such wicked things?" "The other day he beat Aaron and took six groschen from him." "If he took money from Aaron, no doubt the accursed Jew had first cheated him out of it. Huelsmeyer is a respectable householder, and the Jews are all rascals!" "But, mother, Brandes also says that he steals wood and deer." "Child, Brandes is a forester."
With the keenest insight he noticed that the magician Prospero was an impersonation of Shakespeare himself; and George Brandes, the most thoroughgoing of Shakespearean scholars, afterwards came to the same conclusion. Lowell was the gentlemanly instructor. He appealed to the gentleman in the students who sat before him, and he rarely appealed in vain.
Benzenberg and Brandes, many of the falling stars seen in Europe have been only thirty thousand toises high. One was even measured which did not exceed fourteen thousand toises, or five nautical leagues. These measures, which can give no result but by approximation, deserve well to be repeated.
"Mistress Mergel," asked the clerk earnestly, "are you sure that Frederick came home at four and did not go away again?" She stared in his face. "Ask any child on the street. And go away? I wish to God he could!" "Didn't he tell you anything about Brandes?" "In the name of God, yes that Brandes had reviled him in the woods and reproached him with our poverty, the rascal!
Marie Antoinette was the cause of her governess being dismissed, through a confession that all her copies and all her letters were invariably first traced out with pencil; the Comtesse de Brandes was appointed to succeed her, and fulfilled her duties with great exactness and talent.
G. Brandes, who has summed up the tendency of these two novels with great felicity: "The author has surveyed the generation to which he himself belongs, and after having scanned these wide domains of emasculation, these prairies of spiritual sterility, these vast plains of servility and irresolution, he has addressed to himself the questions: How does a whole generation become such?
"You have certainly done well," said Carl, respectfully. "Well, I'm no slouch, if I do say it myself." "I don't wonder your income pays the expenses of your vacation trip." "It ought to, that's a fact, though I'm rather free handed and like to spend money. My prospects are pretty good in another direction. Old Fred Brandes has a handsome daughter, who thinks considerable of your humble servant."
In another letter he wrote: "I may as well say the one thing I love in freedom is the struggle for its attainment. Its possession does not greatly concern me." As Brandes points out, this attitude of Ibsen's is partly a reminiscence of romanticism; and in Ibsen as in Balzac the romanticist is forever wrestling with the realist.
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