nase

Updated: June 1, 2025

'We Germans, said Kaiser Heinrich, when he was again surrounded by his courtiers, 'may go wrong if we always follow Pfalzgraf Nase; but this time we have been well led. Whereat there was obsequious laughter. The Pfalzgraf pleaded a susceptible nostril. 'Thou art, I fear, but a timid mortal, said the Kaiser.

George Meredith - Farina

'Follow Pfalzgraf Nase! the Kaiser is reported to have said. Great was the wonderment of the people of Cologne to behold Kaiser Heinrich riding in perfect stateliness up the main street toward the Cathedral, while right and left of him bishops and electors were dropping incapable. The Kaiser advanced till by his side the youth rode sole. 'Thy name? said the Kaiser.

George Meredith - Complete Short Works of George Meredith

Der Unempfindsamkeit zum Hohn Hielt er auf eine Mück’ im Glase Beweglich einen Leichsermon, Purrt’ eine Flieg’ ihm an der Nase, Macht’ er das Fenster auf, und sprach: Zieh Oheim Toby’s Fliege nach! Durch Mops ist warlich meine Magd Nicht mehr bey Trost, nicht mehr bey Sinnen So sehr hat ihr sein Lob behagt, Dass sie empfindsam allen Spinnen Zu meinem Hause, frank und frey Verstattet ihre Weberey.

Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer - Laurence Sterne in Germany: A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of: England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

"Oh, no!" said he quickly, "I do not aspire to that; I believe in Faust's verse: 'Ich ziehe... meine Schuler an der Nase herum Und sehe dass wir nichts wissen konnen; and I also bilde mir nicht ein, Ich konnte was lehren. I wonder at and envy the men who teach such things with so much influence and conviction, and I am very grateful to them for initiating me into their methods and power of working properly.

Max Simon Nordau - The Malady of the Century