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Página 75
... German , with his head in the heavens of philosophy and his feet in the ditch of necessity , spout- ing pure reason over his beer - mug , drop- ping the tears of sentiment on his sausage and sauerkraut . Breitmann " flashed into being ...
... German , with his head in the heavens of philosophy and his feet in the ditch of necessity , spout- ing pure reason over his beer - mug , drop- ping the tears of sentiment on his sausage and sauerkraut . Breitmann " flashed into being ...
Página 76
... German still struggling with an unfamiliar grammar and construction . To the hard - worked journalist , who had scribbled it off in his scant leisure mo- ments , the subject and the language must have brought some charm of old associa ...
... German still struggling with an unfamiliar grammar and construction . To the hard - worked journalist , who had scribbled it off in his scant leisure mo- ments , the subject and the language must have brought some charm of old associa ...
Página 77
... German naïveté and rowdyism . " In other words , Hans Breitmann , ad- venturer and vagabond , was as German by nature as by birth ; and that was his salvation . Had the Ballads , like the Big- low Papers , been intended to convey a ...
... German naïveté and rowdyism . " In other words , Hans Breitmann , ad- venturer and vagabond , was as German by nature as by birth ; and that was his salvation . Had the Ballads , like the Big- low Papers , been intended to convey a ...
Página 78
... German " Bum- mer , " as his beer and his pipe , — that is what redeems him from sheer animalism . There is no humor in mere brutality . Breitmann , being a German , when he drank himself drunk on the battlefield , once drunk , could ...
... German " Bum- mer , " as his beer and his pipe , — that is what redeems him from sheer animalism . There is no humor in mere brutality . Breitmann , being a German , when he drank himself drunk on the battlefield , once drunk , could ...
Página 79
... German with his unquench- able thirst and irrepressible good spirits , and were on the lookout for his reap- pearance . Letters containing the bal- lads were preserved by the friends lucky enough to have received them , espe- cially by ...
... German with his unquench- able thirst and irrepressible good spirits , and were on the lookout for his reap- pearance . Letters containing the bal- lads were preserved by the friends lucky enough to have received them , espe- cially by ...
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