The Quarterly Review, Volume 73John Murray, 1843 |
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Page 164
... Bettina's worst nonsense is refreshing after Rahel's best sense , Frau von Arnim's most im- pudent lies delightful after Frau von Varnhagen's most pompous truisms . Rahel's mind was a heavy complicated machine , difficult to set a ...
... Bettina's worst nonsense is refreshing after Rahel's best sense , Frau von Arnim's most im- pudent lies delightful after Frau von Varnhagen's most pompous truisms . Rahel's mind was a heavy complicated machine , difficult to set a ...
Page 167
... Bettina long letters , in which she assures her , for her comfort , that the world will never understand her and talks of mines of soul , and fountains of thought , and new auroras , and magic caves , and deep wells , and crystal ...
... Bettina long letters , in which she assures her , for her comfort , that the world will never understand her and talks of mines of soul , and fountains of thought , and new auroras , and magic caves , and deep wells , and crystal ...
Page 169
... Bettina's last scene with her , she stabbed herself on the very spot which she had shown her . The deed was committed one night , at Winkel upon the Rhine . The real cause was an unhappy attachment to a Professor at Heidelberg ; which ...
... Bettina's last scene with her , she stabbed herself on the very spot which she had shown her . The deed was committed one night , at Winkel upon the Rhine . The real cause was an unhappy attachment to a Professor at Heidelberg ; which ...
Contents
Vaudois 1842 | 3 |
A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William | 27 |
Capefigue | 70 |
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