HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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And when I lean upon thy breast,
No dream of heaven could be more
blest;
But when thou say'st thou lovest me,
I fall to weeping bitterly.
EDUCATION.
Had I not known the names of the
Roman kings by heart, it would in
after years have been a matter of indifference
to me whether Niebuhr had, or
had not, proved that they never really
existed. As regards Latin, you,
madam, have no idea what a complicated
language it is. Truly if the Romans
had had to learn it for themselves
they could never have found time for conquering
the world. Fortunate people,
who knew from their cradle the nouns
that take im in the accusative! I, however,
had to learn them by heart in the
sweat of my brow. As for the irregular
verbs — which distinguish themselves
from the regular verbs by the greater
amount of thrashing one gets over the
the former —they are horribly difficult.
About Greek I can hardly trust myself
to speak, lest I should fall into a rage.
The monks of the middle-ages were not
far wrong when they maintained that
Gi-eek was an invention,of the Devil's.
With German I made better progress.