Heinrich Heine
Published: 2015-06-29
Total Pages: 294
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Excerpt from Italian Travel Sketches, &C: From the Original With Prefatory Note From the French of Theophile Gautier The last time that I saw Heinrich Heine was a few weeks before his death; I had to write a short notice for the re-issue of his works. He lay on the bed where, according to the doctors, a slight indisposition first held him, but whence he had not been able to rise therefrom for eight years. One was always sure of finding him, as he himself used to say; yet, little by little, solitude encompassed him more and more; hence his exclamation to Berlioz, on the occasion of an unexpected visit: "You come to see me! you are as original as ever!" It was not that he was less loved or less admired, but life entices away with it the most faithful hearts, in spite of themselves: only a mother or a wife would never abandon so persistent a death-agony. Human eyes cannot, without turning aside, contemplate the sight of suffering for too long a time. Goddesses themselves grow weary of it, and the three thousand Oceanides who went to console Prometheus on his Caucasian cross returned therefrom in the evening. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."