 I KNOW not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my coffin. Poetry, dearly as I have loved it, has always been to me but a divine plaything. I have never attached any great value to poetical fame ; and I trouble myself very little...  Socialists at Work - Page 261by Robert Hunter - 1908 - 374 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1863 - 92 pages
...he can write. — London Athenreum. irinrith lehte. " T KNOW not if I deserve that a laurel-* wreath should one day be laid on my coffin. Poetry, dearly...coffin a sword : for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity." Heine had his full share of love of fame, and cared quite as much as... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 806 pages
...has always been to me but a divine plaything. I have never attached any great value to poetical Ame; and I trouble myself very little whether people praise...my coffin a sword: for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity." Heine had his full share of love of fame, and cared quite as much as... | |
 | 1865 - 582 pages
...something else which he prized — or affected to prize — even more than that. " I know not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my...my coffin a sword, for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity." So he spoke, who was master of many styles, who could be lively or... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 pages
...these inhabit, and shine close to one another, lucida sidera. HEINRICH HEINE. 'I KNOW not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my...brave soldier in the Liberation- War of humanity.' Heine had his full share of love of fame, and cared quite as much as his brethren of the genus irritabile... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 404 pages
...inhabit, and shine close to one another, lucida sidera. V. HEINRICH HEINE. " I KNOW not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my...brave soldier in the Liberation War of humanity." Heine had his full share of love of fame, and cared quite as much as his brethren of the genus irritabile... | |
 | 1883 - 496 pages
...laid on them, in Wordsworth's happy phrase, ' the strong hand of her purity' ; * Heine's phrase — ' Lay on my coffin a sword : for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity.' arid from the days of Knox downwards, in the simple, severe, and saintly... | |
 | 1886 - 218 pages
...laurel-wreath, while most anxious to clutch more than its equivalent : — " I know not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my...coffin a sword : for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity." B. 1814. PRINCE BISMARCK. BISMARCK appears quite conscious of the power... | |
 | 1898 - 848 pages
...which inspired the " war for the emancipation of mankind." and his day of Pentecost occurred in 1789. " Lay on my coffin a sword, for I was a brave soldier in the war of freedom for mankind." Yes, Heine fought courageously, and by the uncompromising utterance of... | |
 | 1890 - 608 pages
...character of Werther himself ? 5. Translate into German — HEINRICH HEINE. " I know not if I deserve that a laurel-wreath should one day be laid on my...my coffin a sword; for I was a brave soldier in the war of liberation of humanity." Heine had his full share of love of fame, and cared quite as much as... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - 1890 - 478 pages
...great value to poetical fame, and I care very little whether people praise my verses or find fault with them. But, lay on my coffin a sword ; for I was a brave soldier in the Liberation-War of Humanity." Whether they laid a sword upon his coffin I know not. But its emblem,... | |
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