 | 1897 - 918 pages
...profound mystery which analysis greatly intensifies. Seventy years ago Heinrich Heine could write, "I have seen the greatest wonder which the world can...more astonished than ever— and still there remains fixed in my memory that stone forest of houses, and, amid them, the rushing stream of faces, of living... | |
 | 1877 - 564 pages
...partly following the translation of W. Stigand and partly that of an earlier translator : — " I lin w seen the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit : I hare seen it and am astonished ; still there remains fixed in my memory the Btone forest of houses,... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1856 - 486 pages
...a high building which rose like a spectral gloomy dream above the cloud-covered London. 2. LONDON. I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can...show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid... | |
 | Charles Dickens, Ich (pseud) - 1856 - 208 pages
...the only fountain and first cause of whatsoever is excellent. Hienrich Heine's opinion of London is, I have seen the greatest wonder which the . world...show to the astonished spirit ; I have seen it and am still astonished; and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid them... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1863 - 500 pages
...a high building which rose like a spectral gloomy dream above the cloud-covered London. 2. LONDON. I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can...show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished—and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid... | |
 | 1875 - 448 pages
...following passage is from his Reisebilder, (Pictures of Travel,) as translated by Charles G. Leland :] I have seen the greatest wonder which the world can...show to the astonished spirit ; I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid... | |
 | Heinrich Heine - 1887 - 380 pages
...following chapters) in 1831. Mr. Leland's translation, revised throughout, has been here used.] LONDON. I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can...astonished spirit; I have seen it, and am more astonished then ever — and still there remains fixed in my memory that stone forest of houses, and amid them... | |
 | 1887 - 374 pages
...adage truly saith, Magna civitas, mayna solitudo, a great city is a great solitude." — LORD BACON. " I have seen the greatest wonder which the world can...show to the astonished spirit. I have seen it, and am still astonished, — for ever will there remain fixed indelibly on my memory the stone forest of houses,... | |
 | Herbert Fry - 1887 - 382 pages
...saith, Magna civitas, magna solitudo, a great city is a great solitude." — LORD BACON. " I have Been the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit. I have seen it, and am still astonished, — for ever will there remain fixed indelibly on my memory the stone forest of houses,... | |
 | Richard Lovett - 1890 - 244 pages
...vice. Heinrich Heine's well-known words still remain in many respects as true as when he wrote them : ' I have seen the greatest wonder which the world can...show to the astonished spirit. I have seen it, and am still astonished — for ever will there remain fixed indelibly on my memory the stone forests of houses,... | |
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I HAVE seen the greatest wonder which the world can show to the astonished spirit, I have seen it and am still astonished — and still there remains fixed in my memory the stone forest of houses, and amid them the rushing stream of faces of living men... 
