The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . d was ill-at-ease for this apostasy. I will be aJapanese, he writes. They hate nothing so muchas the cross. I will be a Japanese. The advantagehe sought he did not secure; his position, on theother hand, becoming more uncomfortable than be-fore. In this period of his life Heine strikes intothat mocking vein of writing which he preserved soconstantly afterward, both in his prose and hispoetry. Leaving Gottingen for a journey in theHarz, after having contracted a spite against thesociety of the town, he laughed mercilessly at hisold associates. I
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . d was ill-at-ease for this apostasy. I will be aJapanese, he writes. They hate nothing so muchas the cross. I will be a Japanese. The advantagehe sought he did not secure; his position, on theother hand, becoming more uncomfortable than be-fore. In this period of his life Heine strikes intothat mocking vein of writing which he preserved soconstantly afterward, both in his prose and hispoetry. Leaving Gottingen for a journey in theHarz, after having contracted a spite against thesociety of the town, he laughed mercilessly at hisold associates. I have especial fault to find that the conceptionhas not been suf^ciently refuted that the ladies ofGottingen have large feet. I have busied mAselffrom years end to years end with the earnestconfutation of this opinion, and in the profoundtreatise which shall contain the results of thesestudies, I speak, i, of feet generally; 2, of the feetof the ancients ; 3, of the feet of elephants ; 4, ofthe feet of the ladies of Gottingen ; then if I can get. HEINE. 3l6 THE STORY OF THE JEWS. paper big enough, I will add thereto some copper-plate engravings, with portraits, life-size, of theladies feet of Gottingen. Again, to hit off thepedantry of the town, he says : In front of theWeender gate two little school-boys met me, one ofwhom said to the other: I will not walk withTheodor any more ; he is a low fellow, for yesterdayhe did not know the genitive of niensa. He soon arrived at fame. A multitude of readersfollowed his pen with delight. His songs wereeverywhere sung ; his witty and graphic prose com-mended itself no less. His nonchalant irreverence,which not infrequently runs into insolence and blas-phemy, his disregard of proprieties, his outspokenscorn of the powers that ruled, brought down uponhim, not unnaturally, fierce persecution. He trav-elled in various directions, not only in Germany, butvisiting Italy, France, and England, his sparklingrecord keeping pace with his
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