menschlich

Updated: May 20, 2025

As I watched the lucky Frederick set out to return to the stable he came from it occurred to me that had he understood German, which he did not, nor English either, for that matter, he might have whispered joyfully to himself, in the words of another dealer in ways that are dark and tricks which are vain: "'Es ist gar hubsch von einem grossen Herrn, So menschlich mit dem Teufel selbst zu sprechen.

Austin Bidwell - Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

Ihn hat verwandelt Hexenspruch in elnen Hund. * Aber jeden Freitag Abend, In der Dämmrungstunde, plötzlich Weicht der Zauber, und der Hund Wird aufs Neu' ein menschlich Wesen." HEINE: Prinzessin Sabbaz. When Deronda arrived at five o'clock, the shop was closed and the door was opened for him by the Christian servant.

George Eliot - Daniel Deronda

The effect is vastly diverting, especially when Boito's paraphrase of Goethe's Von Zeit zu Zeit seh' ich den Alten gern Und hute mich mit ihm zu brechen. Es ist gar hubsch von einem grossen Herrn, So menschlich mit dem Teufel selbst zu sprechen. is turned into: "Now and again 'tis really pleasant thus to chat with the angels, and I'll take good care not to quarrel with them.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music