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First Quotes by Heinrich Heine
- But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer…
- At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains:…
- Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth,…
- Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.
- Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kissed and it thought of nothing beside. The fair…
- The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.
- First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.
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