English: Knights of the Holy Ghost embarking on the crusades. After a miniature in a manuscript of the XIVth Century in the museum of the Louvre

Identifier: picturesoftravel00hein (find matches)
Title: Pictures of travel;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903, tr Genung, Charles Harvey
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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New York Aftf OF CONQ) D. Appleton and Company1898 APR 27 Wer 0f 2nd COPY,1898, 30PU 6151 Copyright, 1898, Ey d. appleton and company. FAMOUS AND UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT ANDBOOK ILLUSTRATIONS. A series of fac-similes, showing the development of manuscript andbook illustrating during 4000 years. EMBARKING FOR THE CRUSADES. After a miniature in a manuscript of the XlVth Century in themuseum of the Louvre.
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HEINRICH HEINE IT is difficult, even after the lapse of more than forty yearssince Heines death, to assign to the poet his true placeand to the man his moral value. Heines nature wascomplex, and it was a complexity of unresolved discords, ofunreconciled contrasts. Never have critical judgments beenmore widely divergent than those which have been passedupon the life and works of Heine. That he is the greatestliterary force in Germany since Goethe is now a clearly estab-lished fact, but how this can be, in view of his moral andtemperamental defects, is a question which continues to stim-ulate and baffle the student. Goethes life and works forman harmonious whole; Heines life and Heines lyrics areoften strangely at variance. The reader is never sure offair treatment from Heine. Moved to tears by the exquisitepathos, beauty, and lilt of his verse, we are suddenly con-fronted by the pale face of the poet distorted into a cynicalgrin. While we gaze delighted upon a beautiful picture, itis c

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