Vulgar words in The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes (Page 1)
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is the better man; The Bastard has won, and knaves And scutcheoned thieves divide the land, And make the freemen slaves.
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Among the rest of these stood Balaam's ass-- A speaking likeness (if you will, a braying)-- And Abraham's sacrifice, and there, alas!
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Both parties thus reviled and cursed away, And none who heard could tell the why or whether, Till Balaam's ass at last began to bray And soon outbawled both gods and saints together.
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Still, it is by no means certain that this fortress would have resisted an ass laden with gold, any more than did that of which Philip of Macedon spoke.
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You remember, perhaps, Madame, that in Pausanias we are told that by the braying of an ass an equally dangerous plot was once discovered, and you also know from Livy, or from Becker's _History of the World_, that geese once saved the Capitol, and you must certainly know from Sallust that by the chattering of a loquacious _putaine_, the Lady Fulvia, the terrible conspiracy of Catiline came to light.
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And should you ever send a German poet thither--a dreamer, who stares at everything, even a ragged beggar-woman, or the shining wares of a goldsmith's shop--why, then, at least he will find things going right badly with him, and he will be hustled about on every side, or perhaps be knocked over with a mild "God damn!"
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_God damn!_--damn the knocking about and pushing!
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By day and by night he must tax his brain to discover new machines, and he sits and reckons in the sweat of his brow, and runs and rushes, without much looking around, from the Docks to the Exchange, and from the Exchange to the Strand; and therefore it is quite pardonable if he, when a poor German poet, gazing into a print-shop window, stands bolt in his way on the corner of Cheapside, should knock the latter sideways with a rather rough "God damn!"
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Once I was fairly frightened when he, while barbering away at my neck, burst out in wonted wise against Wellington, murmuring all the while, "If I only had him _this_ way under my razor, _I'd_ save him the trouble of cutting his own throat, as his brother in office and fellow-countryman, Londonderry, did, who killed himself that-a-way at North Cray in Kent--God damn him!"
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When the King here takes his pleasure Dares no Jew--ah, God will damn them!
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But if my husband's wrong continueth, Then I myself, in all my married years, A sinner was and not a wife, our son Is but a misborn bastard-spawn, a shame Unto himself, and sore disgrace to us.
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Damn it all!'
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"'Oh, you blockhead!