The determination was the result of long years of quiet and rather ineffectual thinking. There is something threatening my boy and I will ward it off. Although for years she had hated her husband, her hatred had always before been a quite impersonal thing. He had been merely a part of something else that she hated. Now, and by the few words at the door, he had become the thing personified. In the darkness of her own room she clenched her fists and glared about. Going to a cloth bag that hung on a nail by the wall she took out a long pair of sewing scissors and held them in her hand like a dagger.
When I have killed him something will snap within myself and I will die also.
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It will be a release for all of us. For years she had been what is called "stage-struck" and had paraded through the streets with traveling men guests at her father s hotel, wearing loud clothes and urging them to tell her of life in the cities out of which they had come. Once she startled the town by putting on men s clothes and riding a bicycle down Main Street.
In her own mind the tall dark girl had been in those days much confused. A great restlessness was in her and it expressed itself in two ways. First there was an uneasy desire for change, for some big definite movement to her life.
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It was this feeling that had turned her mind to the stage. She dreamed of joining some company and wandering over the world, seeing always new faces and giving something out of herself to all people. Sometimes at night she was quite beside herself with the thought, but when she tried to talk of the matter to the members German dagger: Winesburg, Ohio 34 of the theatrical companies that came to Winesburg and stopped at her father s hotel, she got nowhere. They did not seem to know what she meant, or if she did get something of her passion expressed, they only laughed.
Nothing comes of it. Always they seemed to understand and sympathize with her. On the side streets of the village, in the darkness under the trees, they took hold of her hand and she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.
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When that came she felt for a time released and happy. She did not blame the men who walked with her and later she did not blame Tom Willard. It was always the same, beginning with kisses and ending, after strange wild emotions, with peace and then sobbing repentance. When she sobbed she put her hand upon the face of the man and had always the same thought. Even though he were large and bearded she thought he had become suddenly a little boy. She wondered why he did not sob also. In her room, tucked away in a corner of the old Willard House, Elizabeth Willard lighted a lamp and put it on a dressing table that stood by the door.
A thought had come into her mind and she went to a closet and brought out a small square box and set it on the table. The box contained material for makeup and had been left with other things by a theatrical company that had once been stranded in Winesburg. Elizabeth Willard had decided that she would be beautiful. Her hair was still black and there was a great mass of it braided and coiled about her head. The scene that was to take place in the office below began to grow in her mind.
No ghostly worn-out figure should confront Tom Willard, but something quite unexpected and startling. Tall and with dusky cheeks and hair that fell in a mass from her shoulders, a figure should come striding down the stairway before the startled loungers in the hotel office. The figure would be silent--it would be swift and terrible. As a tigress whose cub had been German braided: Sherwood Anderson 35 threatened would she appear, coming out of the shadows, stealing noiselessly along and holding the long wicked scissors in her hand.
The strength that had been as a miracle in her body left and she half reeled across the floor, clutching at the back of the chair in which she had spent so many long days staring out over the tin roofs into the main street of Winesburg. In the hallway there was the sound of footsteps and George Willard came in at the door. Sitting in a chair beside his mother he began to talk. An impulse came to her.
You will go to the city and make money, eh?
It will be better for you, you think, to be a business man, to be brisk and smart and alive? The son shook his head. I don t try. There isn t any use. I don t know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think. Again, as on the other evenings, they were embarrassed. After a time the boy tried again to talk. In the room the silence became unbearable to the woman. She wanted to cry out with joy because of the words that had come from the lips of her son, but the expression of joy had become impossible to her.
You are too much indoors," she said. Schatten, Schattenbilder, Schattenrisse, Schemen. He always wore a dirty white waistcoat out of the pockets of which protruded a number of the kind of black cigars known as stogies. His teeth were black and irregular and there was something strange about his eyes. The lid of the left eye twitched; it fell down and snapped up; it was exactly as though the lid of the eye were a window shade and someone stood inside the doctor s head playing with the cord.
Doctor Parcival had a liking for the boy, George Willard. It began when George had been working for a year on the Winesburg Eagle and the acquaintanceship was entirely a matter of the doctor s own making. In the late afternoon Will Henderson, owner and editor of the Eagle, went over to Tom Willy s saloon.
Along an alleyway he went and slipping in at the back door of the saloon began drinking a drink made of a combination of sloe gin and soda water. Will Henderson was a sensualist and had reached the age of forty-five. He imagined the gin renewed the youth in him. Like most sensualists he enjoyed talking of women, and for an hour he lingered about gossiping with Tom Willy.
The saloon keeper was a short, broad-shouldered man with peculiarly marked hands. That flaming kind of birthmark that sometimes paints with red the faces of men and women had touched with red German birthmark: Sherwood Anderson 37 Tom Willy s fingers and the backs of his hands. As he stood by the bar talking to Will Henderson he rubbed the hands together. As he grew more and more excited the red of his fingers deepened.
It was as though the hands had been dipped in blood that had dried and faded. Doctor Parcival appeared immediately after Will Henderson had disappeared. One might have supposed that the doctor had been watching from his office window and had seen the editor going along the alleyway. Coming in at the front door and finding himself a chair, he lighted one of the stogies and crossing his legs began to talk. He seemed intent upon convincing the boy of the advisability of adopting a line of conduct that he was himself unable to define.
It is not an accident and it is not because I do not know as much of medicine as anyone here. I do not want patients. The reason, you see, does not appear on the surface. It lies in fact in my character, which has, if you think about it, many strange turns. Why I want to talk to you of the matter I don t know. I might keep still and get more credit in your eyes. I have a desire to make you admire me, that s a fact. I don t know why. That s why I talk. It s very amusing, eh? To the boy the tales were very real and full of meaning. He began to admire the fat unclean-looking man and, in the afternoon when Will Henderson had gone, looked forward with keen interest to the doctor s coming.
Doctor Parcival had been in Winesburg about five years. He came from Chicago and when he arrived was drunk and got into a fight with Albert Longworth, the baggageman. The fight concerned a trunk and ended by the doctor s being escorted to the village lockup. When he was released he rented a room above a shoe-repairing shop at the lower end of Main Street and put out German admire: Eingefrorenes Kapital, Stillgelegt Geld, Verklemmung. Winesburg, Ohio 38 the sign that announced himself as a doctor. Although he had but few patients and these of the poorer sort who were unable to pay, he seemed to have plenty of money for his needs.
He slept in the office that was unspeakably dirty and dined at Biff Carter s lunch room in a small frame building opposite the railroad station. In the summer the lunch room was filled with flies and Biff Carter s white apron was more dirty than his floor. Doctor Parcival did not mind. Into the lunch room he stalked and deposited twenty cents upon the counter. It makes no difference to me. I am a man of distinction, you see. Why should I concern myself with what I eat. Sometimes the boy thought they must all be inventions, a pack of lies. And then again he was convinced that they contained the very essence of truth.
I don t remember and anyway it makes no difference. Perhaps I am trying to conceal my identity and don t want to be very definite. Have you ever thought it strange that I have money for my needs although I do nothing? I may have stolen a great sum of money or been involved in a murder before I came here. There is food for thought in that, eh? If you were a really smart newspaper reporter you would look me up. In Chicago there was a Doctor Cronin who was murdered. Have you heard of that? Some men murdered him and put him in a trunk. In the early morning they hauled the trunk across the city.
It sat on the back of an express wagon and they were on the seat as unconcerned as anything. Along they went through quiet streets where everyone was asleep. The sun was just coming up over the lake. Funny, eh--just to think of them smoking pipes and chattering as they drove along as unconcerned as I am now. Perhaps I was one of those men. That would be a strange turn of things, now wouldn t it, eh? My mother was poor. She took in German apron: Sherwood Anderson 39 washing. Her dream was to make me a Presbyterian minister and I was studying with that end in view.
He was in an asylum over at Dayton, Ohio. There you see I have let it slip out! All of this took place in Ohio, right here in Ohio. There is a clew if you ever get the notion of looking me up. That s the object of all this. That s what I m getting at. My brother was a railroad painter and had a job on the Big Four. You know that road runs through Ohio here. With other men he lived in a box car and away they went from town to town painting the railroad propertyswitches, crossing gates, bridges, and stations.
How I hated that color! My brother was always covered with it. On pay days he used to get drunk and come home wearing his paint-covered clothes and bringing his money with him. He did not give it to mother but laid it in a pile on our kitchen table. I can see the picture. My mother, who was small and had red, sad-looking eyes, would come into the house from a little shed at the back. That s where she spent her time over the washtub scrubbing people s dirty clothes.
In she would come and stand by the table, rubbing her eyes with her apron that was covered with soap-suds. Don t you dare touch that money, my brother roared, and then he himself took five or ten dollars and went tramping off to the saloons. When he had spent what he had taken he came back for more. He never gave my mother any money at all but stayed about until he had spent it all, a little at a time. Then he went back to his job with the painting crew on the railroad.
After he had gone things began to arrive at our house, groceries and such things. Sometimes there would be a dress for mother or a pair of shoes for me. My mother loved my brother much more than she did me, although he never said a kind word to either of us and always raved up and German asylum: Schrubben, Scheuernd, Scheuern, Bohnern. Winesburg, Ohio 40 down threatening us if we dared so much as touch the money that sometimes lay on the table three days.
I studied to be a minister and prayed. I was a regular ass about saying prayers. You should have heard me. When my father died I prayed all night, just as I did sometimes when my brother was in town drinking and going about buying the things for us. In the evening after supper I knelt by the table where the money lay and prayed for hours.
When no one was looking I stole a dollar or two and put it in my pocket. That makes me laugh now but then it was terrible. It was on my mind all the time. I got six dollars a week from my job on the paper and always took it straight home to mother. The few dollars I stole from my brother s pile I spent on myself, you know, for trifles, candy and cigarettes and such things. I borrowed some money from the man for whom I worked and went on the train at night. In the asylum they treated me as though I were a king. That made them afraid. There had been some negligence, some carelessness, you see, when father was ill.
They thought perhaps I would write it up in the paper and make a fuss.
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I never intended to do anything of the kind. I wonder what put that notion into my head. Wouldn t my brother, the painter, have laughed, though. There I stood over the dead body and spread out my hands. The superintendent of the asylum and some of his helpers came in and stood about looking sheepish. It was very amusing. I spread out my hands and said, Let peace brood over this carcass. That s what I said. He was awkward and, as the office was small, continually knocked against things.
I have something else in mind. You are a reporter just as I was once and you have attracted my German ass: Sherwood Anderson 41 attention. I want to warn you and keep on warning you. That s why I seek you out. It seemed to the boy that the man had but one object in view, to make everyone seem despicable. There was a fellow, eh? He despised everyone, you see. You have no idea with what contempt he looked upon mother and me.
And was he not our superior? You know he was. You have not seen him and yet I have made you feel that. I have given you a sense of it. Once when he was drunk he lay down on the tracks and the car in which he lived with the other painters ran over him. For a month George Willard had been going each morning to spend an hour in the doctor s office. The visits came about through a desire on the part of the doctor to read to the boy from the pages of a book he was in the process of writing. To write the book Doctor Parcival declared was the object of his coming to Winesburg to live. On the morning in August before the coming of the boy, an incident had happened in the doctor s office.
There had been an accident on Main Street. A team of horses had been frightened by a train and had run away. A little girl, the daughter of a farmer, had been thrown from a buggy and killed. On Main Street everyone had become excited and a cry for doctors had gone up. All three of the active practitioners of the town had come quickly but had found the child dead. From the crowd someone had run to the office of Doctor Parcival who had bluntly refused to go down out of his office to the dead child. The useless cruelty of his refusal had passed unnoticed.
Indeed, the man who had come up the stairway to summon him had hurried away without hearing the refusal. All of this, Doctor Parcival did not know and when George Willard came to his office he found the man shaking with terror. Abenteuer, Erlebniss, Schicksale, Schicksal. Schrecken, Schreck, Grauen, Entzetzen, Entsetzen. Winesburg, Ohio 42 Do I not know what will happen? Word of my refusal will be whispered about. Presently men will get together in groups and talk of it. They will come here. We will quarrel and there will be talk of hanging.
Then they will come again bearing a rope in their hands. It may be put off until tonight but I will be hanged. Everyone will get excited. I will be hanged to a lamp-post on Main Street. When he returned the fright that had been in his eyes was beginning to be replaced by doubt. Coming on tiptoe across the room he tapped George Willard on the shoulder. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this--that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.
That s what I want to say. Don t you forget that. Whatever happens, don t you dare let yourself forget. Weigerung, Ablehnung, Verweigerung, Absage.
Schulter, Achsel, schultern, tragen, die Schulter, Bankett, Seitenstreifen. The night was warm and cloudy and although it was not yet eight o clock, the alleyway back of the Eagle office was pitch dark. A team of horses tied to a post somewhere in the darkness stamped on the hard-baked ground. A cat sprang from under George Willard s feet and ran away into the night. The young man was nervous.
All day he had gone about his work like one dazed by a blow. In the alleyway he trembled as though with fright. In the darkness George Willard walked along the alleyway, going carefully and cautiously. The back doors of the Winesburg stores were open and he could see men sitting about under the store lamps. In Myerbaum s Notion Store Mrs.
Willy the saloon keeper s wife stood by the counter with a basket on her arm. Sid Green the clerk was waiting on her. He leaned over the counter and talked earnestly. George Willard crouched and then jumped through the path of light that came out at the door. He began to run forward in the darkness. Behind Ed Griffith s saloon old Jerry Bird the town drunkard lay asleep on the ground.
The runner stumbled over the sprawling legs. Winesburg, Ohio 44 George Willard had set forth upon an adventure. All day he had been trying to make up his mind to go through with the adventure and now he was acting. In the office of the Winesburg Eagle he had been sitting since six o clock trying to think.
He had just jumped to his feet, hurried past Will Henderson who was reading proof in the print-shop and started to run along the alleyway. Through street after street went George Willard, avoiding the people who passed. He crossed and re-crossed the road. When he passed a street lamp he pulled his hat down over his face. He did not dare think. In his mind there was a fear but it was a new kind of fear.
He was afraid the adventure on which he had set out would be spoiled, that he would lose courage and turn back. George Willard found Louise Trunnion in the kitchen of her father s house. She was washing dishes by the light of a kerosene lamp. There she stood behind the screen door in the little shed-like kitchen at the back of the house. George Willard stopped by a picket fence and tried to control the shaking of his body.
Only a narrow potato patch separated him from the adventure. Five minutes passed before he felt sure enough of himself to call to her. The cry stuck in his throat. His voice became a hoarse whisper. Louise Trunnion came out across the potato patch holding the dish cloth in her hand. In silence the two stood in the darkness with the fence between them. I ll come along. You wait by Williams barn.
It had come that morning to the office of the Winesburg Eagle. The letter was brief. He thought it annoying that in the darkness by the fence she had pretended there was nothing between them. Well, gracious sakes, she has a nerve," he muttered as he went German annoying: Lampe, die Lampe, Laterne. Flicken, ausbessern, Fleck, Korrektur. Kartoffel, Erdapfel, die Kartoffel, Kleikartoffel. Sherwood Anderson 45 along the street and passed a row of vacant lots where corn grew.
The corn was shoulder high and had been planted right down to the sidewalk. There was no hat on her head. The boy could see her standing with the doorknob in her hand talking to someone within, no doubt to old Jake Trunnion, her father. Old Jake was half deaf and she shouted. The door closed and everything was dark and silent in the little side street. George Willard trembled more violently than ever.
In the shadows by Williams barn George and Louise stood, not daring to talk. She was not particularly comely and there was a black smudge on the side of her nose. George thought she must have rubbed her nose with her finger after she had been handling some of the kitchen pots. The young man began to laugh nervously. He wanted to touch her with his hand. Just to touch the folds of the soiled gingham dress would, he decided, be an exquisite pleasure. She began to quibble. Don t tell me, I guess I know," she said drawing closer to him.
A flood of words burst from George Willard. He remembered the look that had lurked in the girl s eyes when they had met on the streets and thought of the note she had written. The whispered tales concerning her that had gone about town gave him confidence. He became wholly the male, bold and aggressive. In his heart there was no sympathy for her.
There won t be anyone know anything. How can they know? They began to walk along a narrow brick sidewalk between the cracks of which tall weeds grew. Some of the bricks were missing and the sidewalk was rough and irregular. He took hold of her hand that was also rough and thought it delightfully small. Ziegelstein, Backstein, Ziegel, Baustein, Stein.
Winesburg, Ohio 46 They crossed a bridge that ran over a tiny stream and passed another vacant lot in which corn grew. In the path at the side of the road they were compelled to walk one behind the other. Will Overton s berry field lay beside the road and there was a pile of boards. Three times he walked up and down the length of Main Street. Sylvester West s Drug Store was still open and he went in and bought a cigar. When Shorty Crandall the clerk came out at the door with him he was pleased.
For five minutes the two stood in the shelter of the store awning and talked. George Willard felt satisfied. He had wanted more than anything else to talk to some man. Around a corner toward the New Willard House he went whistling softly. On the sidewalk at the side of Winney s Dry Goods Store where there was a high board fence covered with circus pictures, he stopped whistling and stood perfectly still in the darkness, attentive, listening as though for a voice calling his name.
Then again he laughed nervously. Nobody knows," he muttered doggedly and went on his way. Three of the old people were women and sisters to Jesse. They were a colorless, soft voiced lot. Then there was a silent old man with thin white hair who was Jesse s uncle. It was in reality not one house but a cluster of houses joined together in a rather haphazard manner. Inside, the place was full of surprises. One went up steps from the living room into the dining room and there were always steps to be ascended or descended in passing from one room to another.
At meal times the place was like a beehive. At one moment all was quiet, then doors began to open, feet clattered on stairs, a murmur of soft voices arose and people appeared from a dozen obscure corners. Besides the old people, already mentioned, many others lived in the Bentley house.
There were four hired men, a woman named Aunt Callie Beebe, who was in charge of the housekeeping, a dull-witted girl named Eliza Stoughton, who made beds and helped with the milking, a boy who worked in the stables, and Jesse Bentley himself, the owner and overlord of it all. Sherwood Anderson 49 By the time the American Civil War had been over for twenty years, that part of Northern Ohio where the Bentley farms lay had begun to emerge from pioneer life. Jesse then owned machinery for harvesting grain.
He had built modern barns and most of his land was drained with carefully laid tile drain, but in order to understand the man we will have to go back to an earlier day. They came from New York State and took up land when the country was new and land could be had at a low price. For a long time they, in common with all the other Middle Western people, were very poor. The land they had settled upon was heavily wooded and covered with fallen logs and underbrush. After the long hard labor of clearing these away and cutting the timber, there were still the stumps to be reckoned with.
Plows run through the fields caught on hidden roots, stones lay all about, on the low places water gathered, and the young corn turned yellow, sickened and died. When Jesse Bentley s father and brothers had come into their ownership of the place, much of the harder part of the work of clearing had been done, but they clung to old traditions and worked like driven animals. They lived as practically all of the farming people of the time lived.
In the spring and through most of the winter the highways leading into the town of Winesburg were a sea of mud. The four young men of the family worked hard all day in the fields, they ate heavily of coarse, greasy food, and at night slept like tired beasts on beds of straw.
Into their lives came little that was not coarse and brutal and outwardly they were themselves coarse and brutal. On Saturday afternoons they hitched a team of horses to a three-seated wagon and went off to town. In town they stood about the stoves in the stores talking to other farmers or to the store keepers. They were dressed in overalls and in the winter wore heavy coats that were flecked with mud. Their hands as they stretched them out to the heat of the stoves were cracked and red.
It was difficult for them to talk and so they for the most part kept silent. When they had bought meat, flour, sugar, and salt, they went into one of the Winesburg saloons and drank beer. Under the influence of drink the naturally strong lusts of their natures, kept suppressed by German afternoons: Fliese, Kachel, Dachziegel, Kacheln, kleine Fliese. Winesburg, Ohio 50 the heroic labor of breaking up new ground, were released. A kind of crude and animal-like poetic fervor took possession of them.
On the road home they stood up on the wagon seats and shouted at the stars. Sometimes they fought long and bitterly and at other times they broke forth into songs. Once Enoch Bentley, the older one of the boys, struck his father, old Tom Bentley, with the butt of a teamster s whip, and the old man seemed likely to die. For days Enoch lay hid in the straw in the loft of the stable ready to flee if the result of his momentary passion turned out to be murder.
He was kept alive with food brought by his mother, who also kept him informed of the injured man s condition. When all turned out well he emerged from his hiding place and went back to the work of clearing land as though nothing had happened. Enoch, Edward, Harry, and Will Bentley all enlisted and before the long war ended they were all killed. For a time after they went away to the South, old Tom tried to run the place, but he was not successful.
When the last of the four had been killed he sent word to Jesse that he would have to come home. Then the mother, who had not been well for a year, died suddenly, and the father became altogether discouraged. He talked of selling the farm and moving into town. All day he went about shaking his head and muttering. The work in the fields was neglected and weeds grew high in the corn. Old Tim hired men but he did not use them intelligently.
When they had gone away to the fields in the morning he wandered into the woods and sat down on a log. Sometimes he forgot to come home at night and one of the daughters had to go in search of him. When Jesse Bentley came home to the farm and began to take charge of things he was a slight, sensitive-looking man of twenty-two. At eighteen he had left home to go to school to become a scholar and eventually to become a minister of the Presbyterian Church. All through his boyhood he had been what in our country was called an "odd sheep" and had not got on with his brothers.
Of all the family only his mother had understood him and she was now dead. Sherwood Anderson 51 When he came home to take charge of the farm, that had at that time grown to more than six hundred acres, everyone on the farms about and in the nearby town of Winesburg smiled at the idea of his trying to handle the work that had been done by his four strong brothers. By the standards of his day Jesse did not look like a man at all. He was small and very slender and womanish of body and, true to the traditions of young ministers, wore a long black coat and a narrow black string tie.
The neighbors were amused when they saw him, after the years away, and they were even more amused when they saw the woman he had married in the city. As a matter of fact, Jesse s wife did soon go under. That was perhaps Jesse s fault. A farm in Northern Ohio in the hard years after the Civil War was no place for a delicate woman, and Katherine Bentley was delicate. Jesse was hard with her as he was with everybody about him in those days. She tried to do such work as all the neighbor women about her did and he let her go on without interference. She helped to do the milking and did part of the housework; she made the beds for the men and prepared their food.
For a year she worked every day from sunrise until late at night and then after giving birth to a child she died. As for Jesse Bentley--although he was a delicately built man there was something within him that could not easily be killed. He had brown curly hair and grey eyes that were at times hard and direct, at times wavering and uncertain. Not only was he slender but he was also short of stature. His mouth was like the mouth of a sensitive and very determined child. Jesse Bentley was a fanatic. He was a man born out of his time and place and for this he suffered and made others suffer.
Never did he succeed in getting what he wanted out of fife and he did not know what he wanted. Within a very short time after he came home to the Bentley farm he made everyone there a little afraid of him, and his wife, who should have been close to him as his mother had been, was afraid also. At the end of two weeks after his coming, old Tom Bentley made over to him the entire ownership of the place and retired into the background. In spite of his youth and inexperience, Jesse had the trick of mastering the souls of his people.
He was so in earnest in everything he did and said that no one understood him. He made everyone on the farm work as they had never worked before and yet there was no joy in the work. If things went well they went well for Jesse and never for the people who were his dependents. Like a thousand other strong men who have come into the world here in America in these later times, Jesse was but half strong. He could master others but he could not master himself. The running of the farm as it had never been run before was easy for him.
When he came home from Cleveland where he had been in school, he shut himself off from all of his people and began to make plans. He thought about the farm night and day and that made him successful. Other men on the farms about him worked too hard and were too fired to think, but to think of the farm and to be everlastingly making plans for its success was a relief to Jesse. It partially satisfied something in his passionate nature. Immediately after he came home he had a wing built on to the old house and in a large room facing the west he had windows that looked into the barnyard and other windows that looked off across the fields.
By the window he sat down to think. Hour after hour and day after day he sat and looked over the land and thought out his new place in life. The passionate burning thing in his nature flamed up and his eyes became hard. He wanted to make the farm produce as no farm in his state had ever produced before and then he wanted something else. It was the indefinable hunger within that made his eyes waver and that kept him always more and more silent before people.
He would have given much to achieve peace and in him was a fear that peace was the thing he could not achieve. All over his body Jesse Bentley was alive. In his small frame was gathered the force of a long line of strong men. He had always been extraordinarily alive when he was a small boy on the farm and later when he was a young man in school. In the school he had studied and thought of God and the Bible with his whole mind and heart. As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from his fellows.
He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as German barnyard: Sherwood Anderson 53 he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod. Although in his absorption in himself and in his own destiny he was blind to the fact that his young wife was doing a strong woman s work even after she had become large with child and that she was killing herself in his service, he did not intend to be unkind to her. When his father, who was old and twisted with toil, made over to him the ownership of the farm and seemed content to creep away to a corner and wait for death, he shrugged his shoulders and dismissed the old man from his mind.
In the stables he could hear the tramping of his horses and the restless movement of his cattle. Away in the fields he could see other cattle wandering over green hills. The voices of men, his men who worked for him, came in to him through the window. From the milkhouse there was the steady thump, thump of a churn being manipulated by the half-witted girl, Eliza Stoughton. Jesse s mind went back to the men of Old Testament days who had also owned lands and herds.
He remembered how God had come down out of the skies and talked to these men and he wanted God to notice and to talk to him also. A kind of feverish boyish eagerness to in some way achieve in his own life the flavor of significance that had hung over these men took possession of him. Being a prayerful man he spoke of the matter aloud to God and the sound of his own words strengthened and fed his eagerness. O God, create in me another Jesse, like that one of old, to rule over men and to be the father of sons who shall be rulers!
In fancy he saw himself living in old times and among old peoples. The land that lay stretched out before him became of vast significance, a place peopled by his fancy with a new race of men sprung from himself. It seemed to him that in his day as in those other and older days, kingdoms might be created German absorption: Kriechen, kriecht, krieche, kriechst, schleichen, schleiche, schleicht, schleichst. Winesburg, Ohio 54 and new impulses given to the lives of men by the power of God speaking through a chosen servant.
He longed to be such a servant. In the last fifty years a vast change has taken place in the lives of our people. A revolution has in fact taken place. The coming of industrialism, attended by all the roar and rattle of affairs, the shrill cries of millions of new voices that have come among us from overseas, the going and coming of trains, the growth of cities, the building of the interurban car lines that weave in and out of towns and past farmhouses, and now in these later days the coming of the automobiles has worked a tremendous change in the lives and in the habits of thought of our people of Mid-America.
Books, badly imagined and written though they may be in the hurry of our times, are in every household, magazines circulate by the millions of copies, newspapers are everywhere. In our day a farmer standing by the stove in the store in his village has his mind filled to overflowing with the words of other men. The newspapers and the magazines have pumped him full. Much of the old brutal ignorance that had in it also a kind of beautiful childlike innocence is gone forever.
The farmer by the stove is brother to the men of the cities, and if you listen you will find him talking as glibly and as senselessly as the best city man of us all. In Jesse Bentley s time and in the country districts of the whole Middle West in the years after the Civil War it was not so. Men labored too hard and were too tired to read. In them was no desire for words printed upon paper. As they worked in the fields, vague, half-formed thoughts took possession of them.
They believed in God and in God s power to control their lives. In the little Protestant churches they gathered on Sunday to hear of God and his works. The churches were the center of the social and intellectual life of the times. The figure of God was big in the hearts of men. Zentrum, Mittelpunkt, Zentrieren, Mitte, die Mitte. Sherwood Anderson 55 And so, having been born an imaginative child and having within him a great intellectual eagerness, Jesse Bentley had turned wholeheartedly toward God. When the war took his brothers away, he saw the hand of God in that.
When his father became ill and could no longer attend to the running of the farm, he took that also as a sign from God. In the city, when the word came to him, he walked about at night through the streets thinking of the matter and when he had come home and had got the work on the farm well under way, he went again at night to walk through the forests and over the low hills and to think of God.
He grew avaricious and was impatient that the farm contained only six hundred acres. Kneeling in a fence corner at the edge of some meadow, he sent his voice abroad into the silence and looking up he saw the stars shining down at him. One evening, some months after his father s death, and when his wife Katherine was expecting at any moment to be laid abed of childbirth, Jesse left his house and went for a long walk. The Bentley farm was situated in a tiny valley watered by Wine Creek, and Jesse walked along the banks of the stream to the end of his own land and on through the fields of his neighbors.
As he walked the valley broadened and then narrowed again. Great open stretches of field and wood lay before him. The moon came out from behind clouds, and, climbing a low hill, he sat down to think. Jesse thought that as the true servant of God the entire stretch of country through which he had walked should have come into his possession.
He thought of his dead brothers and blamed them that they had not worked harder and achieved more. Before him in the moonlight the tiny stream ran down over stones, and he began to think of the men of old times who like himself had owned flocks and lands. A fantastic impulse, half fear, half greediness, took possession of Jesse Bentley. He remembered how in the old Bible story the Lord had appeared to that other Jesse and told him to send his son David to where Saul and the men of German abed: Klettern, Steigend, Kletternd, Bergsteigen, Ansteigend.
Into Jesse s mind came the conviction that all of the Ohio farmers who owned land in the valley of Wine Creek were Philistines and enemies of God. Jumping to his feet, he began to run through the night. As he ran he called to God. His voice carried far over the low hills. Let Thy grace alight upon me. Send me a son to be called David who shall help me to pluck at last all of these lands out of the hands of the Philistines and turn them to Thy service and to the building of Thy kingdom on earth.
When he was twelve years old he went to the old Bentley place to live. His mother, Louise Bentley, the girl who came into the world on that night when Jesse ran through the fields crying to God that he be given a son, had grown to womanhood on the farm and had married young John Hardy of Winesburg, who became a banker. Louise and her husband did not live happily together and everyone agreed that she was to blame.
She was a small woman with sharp grey eyes and black hair. From childhood she had been inclined to fits of temper and when not angry she was often morose and silent. In Winesburg it was said that she drank. Her husband, the banker, who was a careful, shrewd man, tried hard to make her happy. When he began to make money he bought for her a large brick house on Elm Street in Winesburg and he was the first man in that town to keep a manservant to drive his wife s carriage. But Louise could not be made happy.
She flew into half insane fits of temper during which she was sometimes silent, sometimes noisy and quarrelsome. She swore and cried out in her anger. She got a knife from the kitchen and threatened her husband s life. Once she deliberately set fire to the house, and often she hid herself away for days in her own room and would see no one. Winesburg, Ohio 58 life, lived as a half recluse, gave rise to all sorts of stories concerning her.
It was said that she took drugs and that she hid herself away from people because she was often so under the influence of drink that her condition could not be concealed. Sometimes on summer afternoons she came out of the house and got into her carriage. Dismissing the driver she took the reins in her own hands and drove off at top speed through the streets.
If a pedestrian got in her way she drove straight ahead and the frightened citizen had to escape as best he could. To the people of the town it seemed as though she wanted to run them down. When she had driven through several streets, tearing around corners and beating the horses with the whip, she drove off into the country. On the country roads after she had gotten out of sight of the houses she let the horses slow down to a walk and her wild, reckless mood passed. She became thoughtful and muttered words. Sometimes tears came into her eyes. And then when she came back into town she again drove furiously through the quiet streets.
But for the influence of her husband and the respect he inspired in people s minds she would have been arrested more than once by the town marshal. He was too young then to have opinions of his own about people, but at times it was difficult for him not to have very definite opinions about the woman who was his mother. David was always a quiet, orderly boy and for a long time was thought by the people of Winesburg to be something of a dullard.
His eyes were brown and as a child he had a habit of looking at things and people a long time without appearing to see what he was looking at. When he heard his mother spoken of harshly or when he overheard her berating his father, he was frightened and ran away to hide. Sometimes he could not find a hiding place and that confused him. Turning his face toward a tree or if he was indoors toward the wall, he closed his eyes and tried not to think of anything.
He had a habit of talking aloud to himself, and early in life a spirit of quiet sadness often took possession of him. On the occasions when David went to visit his grandfather on the Bentley farm, he was altogether contented and happy. Often he wished that he would German berating: Sherwood Anderson 59 never have to go back to town and once when he had come home from the farm after a long visit, something happened that had a lasting effect on his mind.
The man was in a hurry to go about his own affairs and left the boy at the head of the street in which the Hardy house stood. It was early dusk of a fall evening and the sky was overcast with clouds. Something happened to David. He could not bear to go into the house where his mother and father lived, and on an impulse he decided to run away from home. He intended to go back to the farm and to his grandfather, but lost his way and for hours he wandered weeping and frightened on country roads. Eine Fibel mit dem Bilde des Hahnes, im Jahre gedruckt zu Hamburg, befindet sich in der dortigen Stadtbibliothek.
In "Deutscher Recht- nicht Schlechtschreibung" S. Aus dem "Esopus", 4, 62; des Burchard Waldis stammt:. Nun band er seine fette Katze in der Werkstatt an, und wenn ihn die Kunden mit leeren Worten des Dankes verliessen, sagte er: Balthasar Schuppius "Freund in der Not" S. Clara "Huy und Pfuy der Welt". Bibliothek in Berlin heisst es Bogen 6: Ein Prediger muss ein Kriegsmann und ein Hirte sein. In den "Tischreden" ed. In Verlegung Caspar Klossmanns. Teile von Zincgrefs "Apophthegmata" giebt. Lessing wiederholt es in "Emilia Galotti" , 2, 3; v.
Der Pastor in Frankfurt a. Andreas Musculus Mensel; gab die Schrift heraus "Vom zuluderten zucht und ehrerwegnen pluderichten Hosen Teuffel vermanung und warnung", auf deren neuer [S. Bibliothek zu Berlin, ist aber vorhanden in der reichhaltigen Costume-Bibliothek des Freiherrn von Lipperheide in Berlin. In Johann Fischart s "Gargantua" S. In seinen "Opera omnia", ed. Valentini, heisst es S. In Verlegung Caspar Klossmanns ersch. Mit seinen anderen, S. Im obengenannten Verzeichnisse bildete Zesen das Wort. Das Ende der 2.
Strophe im Liede Erdmann Neumeister s Auch spricht man kurzweg von einem. Die Moral der Geschichte stammt aus Horaz Epist. Dieser Behauptung widerspricht Goethe heftig in den Gedichten "Allerdings" , 3. Heft der Morphologie und "Ultimatum" zuerst in der Ausg. Aus dem Ersteren citieren wir Hallers Wort also:. Es handelt sich in der Fabel darum, ob ein Hecht zu blau oder zu wenig blau gesotten ist; dem Hausherrn ist er's zu wenig, der Hausfrau zu sehr. Ihr Tod scheint gewiss. Hiermit ahmte Gellert des Chr.
Aus Gellerts Liede "Zufriedenheit mit seinem Zustande" a. Faures Quatrains waren noch im Buches "Die Katzen und der Hausherr" lautete, wie in der Ausgabe von , der 1. Englischen des John O. Keefe frei bearbeitet v. Gleim sagt in den "Fabeln", Berlin anonym , S. Hamann adoptierte das Wort sofort und nannte sich. Gesangs des "Messias" Klopstock lehnt sich hier an Vers 5 und 6 des Sie gehen hin und weinen und tragen edlen Samen und kommen mit Freuden und bringen ihre Garben".
Karl Wilhelm Ramler s Ode: Bande unter dem Titel "Duo quum faciunt idem, non est idem" Wenn zwei dasselbe thun, ist's nicht dasselbe die einhundertneunzehnte Nummer der 4. In "Tales and quicke Answeres", o. Nach "Luthers Tischreden", Eisleben, , S. Das ist ein ander Ding'". Der neue Text ist komponiert von Moritz Ernemann: Berlin "; darin steht unter dem Texte: Mit neuen Melodien v. Laut Vorrede sind die Lieder von S. Aus Lessings "Liedern" 1, 6 citiert man ungenau, aber verbessernd den Schluss der "Antwort eines trunknen Dichters":.
Seneca "De beneficiis", IV, Zu jener Zeit erschienen die "Traumlehren" des Astrampsychus und des Nicephorus her. Wieland ist ferner durch seine Worte in "Musarion" B. Dies Citat scheint aus der Luft gegriffen. Die Redensart steht vielmehr in "Les bigarrures et touches du seigneur des Accords. Avec les Apophthegmes du Sieur Gaulard. Der besondere Titel des zweitgenannen Werkes ist: In der Fussnote heisst es:.
Blumenstrauss", Offenbach komponierten "Rheinweinlied":. Gottfried Herder nannte in der bis erschienenen "Adrastea", Bd. Sammlung, Gotha , S. Die 22 ersten Romanzen erschienen in der "Adrastea" 5, , Leipz. In Trapps "Braunschweigischem Journal", Dies Wort hatte er in den "Briefen aus Paris" zum ersten Male versucht, welche im "Braunschweigischen Journal" abgedruckt wurden. Brief aus Paris, steht S. Ecloge [25] bezieht, der den Namen seinem Vorbilde Theokrit entlehnte, in dessen 4.
Zu erinnern ist hier auch noch an das Gedicht des Adam Olearius:. Wonach dann bei Iuvenal 9, "O Corydon, Corydon! Nach Herders erst nach seinem Tode erschienener Recension Ausg. Juli heisst es:. Kurz darauf antwortet Weislingen dem ihm mit den Worten: In "Dichtung und Wahrheit" Buch gedenkt Goethe seines am Er schildert sich darin bei Tische zwischen Lavater und Basedow sitzend. In den "Leiden des jungen Werthers" B. Dies deutet weiterhin auf Ovid , der "Met.
In der "Iris" Jacobis , Bd. In "Erwin und Elmire" a. Aus Goethes Ballade "Der Fischer" [26] wird citiert:.
In Musik gesetzt von Siegm. Seckendorff", Weimar , S. Das von Goethe am 7. September an einen [S. Vielleicht zuerst von L. Bibliothek zu Berlin steht von Goethes Hand: Aus dem im 8. Der letzte Vers beruht auf 1. Cicero pro Roscio Amerino 42, Zu Grunde liegt wohl dem Allem das freche "si libet, licet", was Julia zu ihrem Stiefsohn Caracalla sagte, als er sie zum Weibe begehrte bei Spartian: In der "Terpsichore" I. Mir wird von allem dem so dumm, [27].
Dies ruht auf 5. Buches von "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren" erschienen und kommt in dem am Schlusse stehenden Liede des Harfenspielers gedichtet Dahinter steht bei Goethe ein anderer Gesang des Harfenspielers, welcher beginnt:. Goethe citiert sie in "Wahrheit und Dichtung", Aus Goethes ebenda S. Aus dem zu Schillers Todtenfeier am Huber, Lafontaine, Pfeffel u. Cotta; wiederholt und erneut bei der Vorstellung am Band von Goethes Werken erschienenen "Faust" wird citiert:. Sie kannten wohl die Lehre des Mani 3.
Vorgestellet anno heisst es im "anderen Auftritt":. Sie ist die erste nicht. Nicht Goethes Erfindung, sondern ein altes Wort. Das war aber damals nur bei den in Chatham angefertigten Tauen der englischen [S. Seit besteht der Brauch in Englands Flotte. Dort sagt I, 6 der Tempelherr zu Daja: Goethe mag hierauf, wie Schopenhauer "Par. Vers von Goethes am Zeller setzte es in Musik. Buche, von "Dichtung und Wahrheit" gefunden, wo er kurz nach der Definition: Mai erschienenen Aufsatzes von Goethe:. I dieses Buches gebildete:. Man hat wohl den Schlussreim des unter "Epigrammatisch" befindlichen, erschienenen Goethe schen Gedichtes "Grabschrift" beim Citieren damit verschmolzen:.
In den "Noten" selbst sagte Goethe, unter "Eingeschaltetes": Auch findet sich bei Goethe Cotta Endlich sprach er zu Eckermann Das ist der grosse Nutzen, der bei einer Weltliteratur herauskommt und der sich immer mehr zeigen wird". Aus Goethes vollendetem, bei Cotta in Stuttgart erschienenen 2. Teil des "Faust" wird citiert:. Der Anfang eines Gedichtes des Johann Heinrich v. Schiller mag hierdurch zu den Versen seines "Siegesfestes" angeregt worden sein:. Gedichte, nach dem Tode d. Schlippenbach ", Mitau , S.
Heines "Buch der Lieder" "Junge Leiden" Zur Liebe will nicht: Man kann doch wohl niemand zur Liebe zwingen". Musen-Almanach auf das Jahr , S. Friedrich Ludwig Beneken setzte das Lied in Musik. Johann Heinrich Voss ist zu nennen wegen des im "Vossischen Musenalmanache" von befindlichen, von Joh. Abraham Peter Schulz komponierten Liede. Die Stelle, nach welcher das Distichon gemacht ist, steht in Lessings "Briefen, die neueste Litteratur betreffend" Die Verse des vierten Gesangs der "Urania" sind die citierten.
Der Gedanke freilich ist nicht neu, denn schon Cicero , Laelius, cap. Der Anfangsvers eines Liedes von Chr. Overbeck , das zuerst im Vossischen Musenalmanach v. Ferner beginnt, auch in "Frizchens Liedern" Hamburg , S. Hurka komponiertes Lied Overbecks:. Balthasar Gerhard Schumacher geb. God save the King". Januar im "Flensburger Wochenblatt". Lischke, jetzt Karl Paez erschienenen Liedes, welches beginnt:.
Flaschner , steht S. Koblenz das Lied dadurch um, dass er den 5 Strophen desselben 5 neue Strophen vorstellte. Regierungs- und Medicinalrate a. Weiterhin ruft der alte Moor:. Gedruckt in der Buchdruckerei zu Tobolsko", S. In derselben "Anthologie" bietet in dem Gedichte: Von einem Offizier", S.
Dies wird also citiert:. Ferner finden wir in "Kabale und Liebe":. Siehe "Et ego in Arcadia". Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde schlummert; [31]. Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter. Die erste Aldiner Ausgabe des Herodot wurde in Venedig gedruckt. Nach Edmund Dorer "An Calderon zum Mai " "Die Gegenwart", 4.
Hier ist die Stelle, wo ich sterblich bin; [37]. Zu Menschen sich verirrt? Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis, [43]. Unrecht leiden schmeichelt grossen Seelen. Aus Schillers ebenda, IV. In dem Gedichte "Die Ideale" S. Verse der Schiller schen Parodie "Shakespeares Schatten".
Aus Schillers "Hoffnung" Aus dem "Ring des Polykrates" S. In seinem im Okt. In "Wallensteins Lager" , 5. Der Anfang der Kapuzinerpredigt [45] in "Wallensteins Lager" lautet:. Es treten im Lager zwei Arquebusiere auf, philisterhafte Gesellen, die sich zweimalige Kritiken zuziehen, im Die Schlussverse der letzten Strophe des Gedichts vom Jahre Diese Sage wurde zu einem Melodrama verarbeitet, in welchem ein dressierter Pudel die Hauptrolle spielte, der den Pariser Janhagel in Begeisterung versetzte.
Der Pudel wurde jedoch heimlich verschrieben, Goethe ging am Abend der Theaterprobe, am In Goedekes "Historisch-kritischer Ausg. Das Auge sieht den Himmel offen, [47]. Der Anfang der "Piccolomini" lautete:. Clauren und gegen diesen geschriebenen Romans "Der Mann im Monde" noch bekannter geworden ist;. Simrock, "Quellen des Shakespeare", 2. Aus der zweiten Scene des Prologes zur "Jungfrau von [S. Die Jungfrau von Orleans" u. Berlin, Unger erschien, wird citiert:. Ein Schlachten war's, nicht eine Schlacht zu nennen; [48]. Livius 5, 44; 22, 48; 23, 40; 25, 14; Curtius 4, 15; Tacitus , hist.
Eine Geisterstimme", aus dem der Endvers citiert wird:. Leisewitzens "Julius von Tarent" 2, 3 ruft Bianca: In der zweiten Scene wendet Gertrud ein Wort an, das nur die Wiederauffrischung eines alten Sprichworts ist:. Dem Mutigen hilft Gott! Graf zu Stolberg in seiner "Romanze" ; "ges. Was da kreucht und fleucht, [50]. Homers "Ilias" 17, Allzu straff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen.
Grimmelshausens "Simplicissimus" IV, 1 bietet: Aus dem durch Schillers Tod unvollendet gebliebenen "Demetrius" citieren wir:. Marcelin Sturm , ehemaligem Augustiner". Keiner will dem anderen ausweichen. Nachdem sie ihre gegenseitigen Passagiere durchgepeitscht hatten, trennten sie sich. Diesmal gab jeder der beiden Reisenden ein besseres Trinkgeld. Wem entlehnte er diesen Schwank? Auch citiert man den Sammeltitel einiger Schriften Kotzebues:. Die zweite "Romanze" dort 1, beginnt: Diesen Anfangsvers citieren wir in der Form:.
Es steht in Splittegarbs Liedersammlung, Berlin , 2. Kirnberger in Berlin komponiert. Nach einer Familientradition war der Verfasser [S. Wir aber brauchen "Weltschmerz" heut im Sinne von "schmerzlichem oder eingebildetem Ekel an Welt und Leben"; und dazu schlug abermals Heine [S. In "Zelters Briefwechsel mit Goethe" V. Wo findet es sich aber in dieser Form zuerst gedruckt? Schliesslich citieren wir auch den Titel von Arndts zu Leipzig bei W.
Danach sagt ein Fremder in einer kleinen Stadt nach der Mahlzeit zum Gastwirt, er habe so gut gegessen wie irgend einer im Lande. Als der Fremde dies bestreitet, muss er vor Gericht einen Gulden Strafe zahlen. Dabei aber bemerkt er: Hegel s in der Vorrede zu seinen: Juni " trug, "in Kommission zu haben bei W. Es steht in dem von seinem Bruder August Wilhelm und [S. Schlegels Roman "Lucinde" Berlin entwickelt, in dem es S. Max von Schenkendorf "Gedichte", Cotta , S. An Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. Hieraus entstand durch E.
Das Buch le Grand", , Kap. Schon Maleachi 2, 10 ruft aus: Aus Roberts Gedicht "An L. Promenaden eines Berliners in seiner Vaterstadt" stammt das Wort s. Roberts "Schriften" II, Sie befinden sich auch auf seinem namenlosen Grabstein auf dem alten Dreifaltigkeitskirchhofe in Berlin vor dem Hallischen Thore. Theognis , Poetae lyrici graeci, ed. Castelli citieren wir:. Zuerst in "Moosrosen" auf das Jahr , herausg. Hitzig aus Kunersdorf geschriebenen Briefe vorkommt J.
Weidmann, lautet die dritte Strophe:. Max von Schenkendorf sagt in der vorletzten Strophe von "Schills Geisterstimme" Das von Pius Alex. Wolff nach des Cervantes Novelle: Dies Lied wurde in K. Holteis "Die Wiener in Berlin" 4. In seiner "Rede auf Jean Paul" Ges. Manteuffel , als er am 8. Daher stammt der Ausdruck:. Lami ", Magdeburg , S.
Aus Ludwig Uhland s "Wanderliedern" 7, "Abreise"; Mai , zuerst gedruckt im "Deutschen Dichterwald", S. Der wackre Schwabe oft verwandelt in: Ein wackrer Schwabe forcht sich nit;. Aus dem einaktigen, erschienenen Vaudeville Karl Blum s Aus Louis Angely s Aus Joseph Freiherr v. Heine "Buch der Lieder", Vorrede zur 2. Thiersch verfasst und steht in den "Liedern und Gedichten des Dr.
Es erschien zuerst in seinen "Gedichten", Breslau , S. Sein auf Helgoland entstandenes Lied:. Delloye", Paris , 2. Dies entsprang den Versen der altschottischen Ballade "Edward, Edward" s. Aus Heines "Heimkehr" No. Mein Liebchen, was willst du mehr? Am Schlusse eines Gedichtes in der "Harzreise" ; Ges. In den "Englischen Fragmenten" , Kap. Im Vorwort zu A. XIV, , und im [S. Campe mit einer Widmung an.
Die obigen begeisterten einen Kandidaten der Theologie, A. Aus den Gedichten von Karl Friedrich Heinrich Strass citieren wir den Anfang eines von ihm gedichteten, von Chemnitz umgearbeiteten und von C. Darin heisst es S. Liegt aber diesem Hasse nicht der Gedanke zu Grunde: Wer nicht isst , was wir essen, der ist auch nicht, was wir sind? Strophe 9, die sich wiederholt in No. Das vor entstandene, von Mendelssohn komponierte Gedicht Eduard Freiherr von Feuchtersleben s "Nach altdeutscher Weise" beginnt:.
Johann Hermann Detmold , der nachmalige Minister und Bundestagsgesandte, schrieb als konservativer Abgeordneter der deutschen Nationalversammlung die vielbelachte illustrierte Satire "Thaten und Meinungen des Herrn Piepmeyer, Abgeordneten zur konstituirenden Nationalversammlung zu Frankfurt am Mayn". Aus denselben Heften ist:. Auf die Antwort der Einen: Das Gedicht ist unterzeichnet G. Es wird aber behauptet, dass das Gedicht schon vor in Leipzig allgemein bekannt war. Aus Fritz Reuter s "Ut mine Stromtid" ersch. Prediger Salomo 1, 9].
In der "Niederrheinischen Musikzeitung" von , No. Wagner antwortete darauf s. Schumanns "Gesammelten Schriften" Bd.
Geflügelte Worte, Georg Büchmann
Tapperts in dessen "Wagner-Lexikon", Lpz. Aus der "Wacht am Rhein", gedichtet von Max Schneckenburger stammt:. Anton Langer in Wien verfasste im Aug. Als Antwort auf dieses antideutsche Pasquill schrieb F. Aus der Posse "Berlin, wie es weint und lacht" von David Kalisch stammt:. Merckel Berlin wieder abgedruckt wurde und in Paul Lindaus "Gegenwart" vom Griesheim verfasst haben soll s. Ein Denkmal seiner unsterblichen Philosophie, dem deutschen Volke geweiht von Fr. Jahrgang und Nummer giebt er nicht an. Dies Wort scheint frei nach Heinrich Heine gebildet zu sein, der im 2.
II, 12 von Berlin "der gesunden Vernunftstadt" spricht. Julius Stettenheim s geb. Aus Wilhelm Busch s geb. Ein sonst unbekannter, nun verstorbener Schriftsteller Hogarten ist der Verfasser des weitverbreiteten Verses:. In einem Feuilletonartikel "tote Seelen" in der "Neuen freien Presse" Franzos hat es offenbar dem Satze nachgebildet: Ob mit Recht, bleibt noch zu erforschen. Andere meinen, Friedrich Gentz sei des Gedankens Vater.
Franzos citierte sich dann selbst, als er Jan. Februar steht ein satirisches Lied von Karl Henckell geb. Davon stammt das Wort. Ranudo ist Anagramm von O du Nar r. Durch Schopenhauer "Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik" 2. Schopenhauer sagt daselbst ferner:. Es findet sich im Dante, der das ganze Wissen seiner Zeit inne hatte, vor Buridan lebte und nicht von [S.
Diesen Satz citieren wir englisch nach Pope, der ihn in seinem Lehrgedichte "Essay on Man" 2, 1 also wiedergab:. Dieser Vers wurde wohl dadurch angeregt, dass bei [S. Regnerius lateinisch und von Guil. Bouchet , Pierre Deprez , Is. Aus 1, 1 des ebenfalls erschienenen "Misanthrope" sind die Worte des Alceste bekannt:. Januar und gab damit seinem Regierungssystem den bleibenden Namen. Nun wollte aber der Zufall, dass bei Blois wirklich ein Gastwirt Rolet wohnte, den dieser unbeabsichtigte Angriff in nicht geringe Wut versetzte.
Daraus entstand das bekannte. Ihm floss dieser Vergleich wohl aus den Alten zu. In Voltaires "Jeannot et Colin" lesen wir: Juni gesprochenen Epilog [s. Mai aus Landshut an Voltaire richtet, und zuletzt in einem Brief Voltaires am Juni an denselben. Voltaire meinte mit "Aberglauben" die Kirche nicht die Religion. Worte aus lateinischen Schriftst. Wo kann man besser weilen, als im Schosse seiner Familie? Alles ist befriedigt, das Herz, die Augen. Leben wir,lieben wir, wie unsre guten Voreltern! Kapitel des vierten Bandes. In des Aristoteles "Moral.
Extrema frequenter una habitant. Bei ihm schliesst es:. Feuerbachs " Der Mensch ist, was er isst ". Daraus wird der Vers:. Lehmanns "Florilegium politicum auctum", Frankfurt , 1. Eine Originalausgabe ist in Strassburg i. An 5e de la republique. Dies Wort brachte Heine bei uns auf, der "Romantische Schule".
Er wendete es in einem Schreiben an den Staatsminister [S. Just gedichtet ist, stammt:. Viele citieren den Vers verderbend: Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement" Paris Romieu s 4o Edit. Er sagt ferner in "Semaynes Case" 5, Report Plaies of perswasion and disswasion".
Der besondere Titel der zweiten, auf dem Gesamttitel als "Religious Meditations" bezeichneten Abteilung lautet: Nur diese "Meditationes sacrae" erschienen hier in lateinischer Sprache, und in deren Artikel "De Haeresibus" steht die Stelle: Ende bildete daraus die Travestie:. In Homers "Iliade" 6, ff. Es liesse sich annehmen, dass irgendwie des Demosthenes Gedanke 3. In Shakespeares "Heinrich V. Hat man ein Ungemach erfahren, so pflegt man es in Marmor zu schreiben, und jede uns erwiesene Wohlthat schreiben wir in den Staub.
The poets eye, in a fine frenzy [57] rolling;. Schillers "Tell" 4, 3. Hat Shakespeare dabei an 1. Petri 2, 2 gedacht: Letzteres kommt auch in "Timon von Athen", 3, 6 und in der Form "fortune's fool" in "Romeo und Julia", 3, 1 vor. In diesem Gedichte steht:. Ehmann , Pfarrer in Unteriesingen [S. Tillotson umschreibt das dann also "Sermons" Lond.
Ein Hoforganist John Bull komponierte i. Heil Dir im Siegerkranz. Ist es ein Verbrechen? Und ebenda 5, 10 spricht die sterbende Sara: Das gelegentlich einmal von Samuel Johnson gebrauchte und von seinem Biographen Boswell im Vielleicht lehnt sich dies Wort an Jesus Sirach 21, William Cowper ist zu nennen wegen der im Gedichte "The task" Buch 4 enthaltenen Bezeichnung des Thees:.
Das bei Robert Burns in dem Gedichte: Schmidt-Weissenfels sagt in einem biographischen Bei- und Nachtrag: Danach nennen wir, ohne auf den Text weiter einzugehen, den holden Gegenstand der Liebesneigung eines bejahrten Herrn seine. In seinem "Don Juan" 11, 45 und 13, 49; ersch. Hell verdeutschten Texte zu Karl Maria von Webers am Schneider , das in den 30er Jahren in Berlin gegeben wurde, und in dessen 1. Akte der Oberon-Text also parodiert wird:. Aus dem Titel von Charles Darwin s Werk "On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the.
Angeregt zu diesem Schlagworte wurde Darwin durch Malthus , der schon in seinem "Essay on the principles of population" London von "struggle for existence" gesprochen hatte. Fumagalli "Chi l'ha detto? Rochlitz verdeutscht wurde, stammt 1, 1 s. Worte aus der Bibel": Das italienische Lied beginnt:. Nach dem Kampfross des Don Quijote nennen wir einen elenden Gaul eine richtiger einen. Schiller citiert schon in einem Brief an Koerner 4. In der ersten Ausgabe v. Das kriegerische Volk, welches in Homers "Iliade" dem [S. So schliesst Aristoteles Metaph. I, 2, 27 lateinisch citieren:. Schillers "Fiesko" 3, 5.
Es war nach Diog. Ferner wird citiert das "Iliade" 17, ; 20, ; "Odyssee" 1, ; 1, ; 16, vorkommende:. Ethik" b 27 , Dio Chrysostomus 37 extr. Schon Alcuin n. Baluzzi Miscell, I, p. II, "Sisyphusarbeit" citiert man V. Hieraus mag den Griechen das von Plato Symp. Nach alter Rhapsodensitte s. Demodokos bei Homer "Odyss. Darnach lautet der Anfang der "Phainomena", eines Lehrgedichtes des Aratus , so wie der Anfang des Idylls seines Freundes Theokrit bl. Buch seiner "Silvae" und Calpurnius 1.
Theognis , und Thucydides sagt II, Einer der Umstehenden antwortet ihm: II, also citiert finden: Dann bietet Marlowes "Faustus" So antwortete nach Zincgref "Apophth. Auf Grund dieser Fabel heisst in der Rechtswissenschaft s. Hieraus stammt wohl das von Aristoteles Nik. Claudius veranstaltete dann eine Sammlung seiner Werke unter dem Titel "Asmus omnia sua secum portans oder: Cicero "Paradoxa", 1, 1, 8 stellt die Worte so: Bei Valerius Maximus 7, 2, externa, 3 heisst es: Zeller II, 1, p. Ferner nannte Simonides nach Plutarch: Schon Plutarch gab a. Dann bietet Cicero "Philipp. Wir pflegen hiernach zu sagen:.
Mit dem Klagelaut des sterbenden Singschwans "Cycnus musicus" s. Brehms "Thierleben" , II, 3 S. Cicero wendet "de orat. Crassus an, der starb, kurz nachdem er eine Rede gehalten: Herodot 3, 38 citiert ausser dem Zusammenhang: Diesen Stellen entsprang das Wort:. Nach Aristoteles "de coelo" 3, 1 vrgl. Wir citieren dies nach Paulus Diaconus p. Auch citieren wir den Anfang des herrlichsten Chors der "Antigone" des Sophokles:.
Velleius Paterculus II, Publilius Syrus , bei Ribbeck: Ein Fragment bei Lykurg advers. Feuer, Wasser, Luft, Erde, stellte Empedokles geb. In des Euripides v. Valerius Maximus II, 10 ext. XV und mit dem Zusatz versehen: Liest man den Schluss mit C. Die Worte des v. Ovid "ex Ponto" 4, 10, 5 singt: Das "non vi sed saepe cadendo" war schon im Ein Wort des Sokrates v. In Freidanks "Bescheidenheit" Wilh. Grimms "Vridanc", 39 heisst es bereits unter "Von dem Hunger":. Hippokrates um v. Den Anfang der "Aphorismen" des Hippokrates [S.
Quae vero ignis non sanat, insanabilia reputari oportet" —"Was Arzneien nicht heilen, heilt das Messer; was das Messer nicht heilt, heilt Brennen; was aber Brennen nicht heilt, muss als unheilbar angesehen werden". So ward denn wohl. Dies lautet bei Cicero "Tusc. Plato um v. Wolf "zu Platos Phaedon". Vor ihm hatte schon G. Lessing "Vossische Zeitung" v. Juni "Erdichtung und Wahrheit" und J.
Von der poetischen Wahrheit". Hiernach heisst es vielleicht bei Lucilius Lachm. Schiller "Der Genius" "verborgen im Ei reget":. Im Aristoteles "De incessu animalium" cap. Auf dem von Aristoteles "Histor. Aristoteles "de anima" 3, 4 sagt: Aristoteles "Problemata" 30, 1 fragt: Columella 4, 18 vermengt diese Worte, indem er schreibt: Theophrast um v.
In Bacons "Essayes" "Of Dispatch" heisst es: Der Redner Pytheas um v. Malum necessarium , die lat. III "Jacta est alea" hat hier seine Quelle. Bei Cicero findet sich "me alterum" "ad. Der griechische Romanschreiber Eustathius [6. Hercher "Erotici Graeci" 2, p. Des um v. Danach schreibt der gern citierende Apostel Paulus im 2. Dann sagt Porphyrius in seines Lehrers Plotin Leben Lessing "Nathan" 3, 7 verdeutschte in der Parabel von den drei Ringen das Wort also:.
Flavius Josephus 37 n. Einen Spruch des Epiktet geb. Dieser habe sein Weib fortgeschickt und alsdann auf die Fragen [S. Schenkte sie Dir denn keine Kinder? Ist er nicht neu? Hierauf fusst die Stelle des Hieronymus adv. Et hic soccus, quem cernitis, videtur vobis novus et elegans, sed nemo scit praeter me, ubi me premat. Durch Lucian s um n. Bei Sextus Empiricus Ende des 2. Wir lesen bei ihm Enn. Mit diesem Gedanken lehnte Plotin sich an Plato an, der in seinem "Staat" p. Julianus Apostata n. Proclus , n. Damit ist nach Aristoteles "De mundo", Kap.
Otto 's Werk hervor: In 1, 1, 99 der "Andria" des Terenz v. Dies Wort wird bereits von Cicero "pro Caelio", c. In des Terenz "Heautontimorumenos" s. Menander 1, 1, 25 heisst es:. Meineke zu Theokrits Id. In Regnards "Le Joueur" 1, 10 weiss Toutabas, wenn's sein muss, "par un peu d'artifice d'un sort injurieux corriger la malice"; und in G.
Furquhars "Sir Harry Wildair " Akt 3 z. In des Plautus "Miles gloriosus" 4, 2, 73 kommen aber schon "argenti montes", "Berge von Silber", vor und im "Stichus" 1, 1, heisst es: Auch Varro bei "Nonius" p. Es scheint, als deute unser Gudrunepos vor mit seinem V. Gnade" 1, 12, 4 u.
Vergil verwendete es Ecloge 8, Hund wird "canis" genannt, weil er nicht singt non canit s. Quintilians "lucus a non lucendo". Auch citieren wir das von Gellius 1, 22, 4 u. Im Anfange der 1. Rede "in Catilinam" finden wir das auch bei Livius 6, 18 und bei Sallust "Catilina" 20, 9 vorkommende, ungeduldige. In Ciceros "Catilina" 1, 1 vrgl. Im "Hofmeister" von R. Lenz citiert es 5, 10 der Schulmeister Wenzeslaus, und als Refrain von Geibels "Lied vom Krokodil" fand es die weiteste Verbreitung.
Galenus "De tuenda valetudine", cap. Schon in des Aristoteles "Rhetorik", a 6 Bekker heisst es: Cicero spricht in seiner Rede "pro Roscio Amer. Daher sagen wir, wenn es gescheidter ist, keine Namen zu nennen:. Lucanus ahmt diese Worte "Pharsalia" I, also nach: