119 Works of Charles G. Leland
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By Hans Breitmann. Der noble Ritter HugoVon Schwillensaufenstein,Rode out mit shper and helmet,Und he coom to de panks of de Rhine. Und oop dere rose a meermaid,Vot hadn’t got nodings on,Und she say, “Oh, Ritter Hugo,Vhere you goes mit yourself alone?” And he says, “I rides in de creenwood,Mit helmet und mit shpeer,Til I coomes […]
HANS BREITMANN shoined de Turners,Novemper in de fall,Und dey gifed a boostin’ benderAll in de Turner Hall.Dere coomed de whole GesangvereinMit der Liederlich Aepfel Chor,[1]Und dey blowed on de drooms and stroomed on de fifesTill dey couldn’t refife no more. Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners,Dey all set oop some shouts,Dey took’d him into deir Turner […]
HANS BREITMANN gife a barty;Dey had biano-blayin’,I felled in lofe mit a Merican frau,Her name vas Madilda Yane.She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel,Her eyes vas himmel-plue,Und vhen dey looket indo mine,Dey shplit mine heart in dwo. Hans Breitmann gife a barty,I vent dere you’ll pe pound;I valtzet mit Matilda Yane,Und vent shpinnen’ round […]
Si liceret te amareAd Suevorum magnum mareSponsam te perducerem– Tristicia Amorosa.Frau Aventiure,von J. V. Scheffel. VILL’ST dou learn die Deutsche Sprache?Denn set it on your card,Dat all the nouns have shenders,Und de shenders all are hard.Dere ish also dings called pronoms,Vitch id’s shoost ash vell to know;Boot ach! de verbs or time-words-Dey’ll work you bitter […]
I. DER watchman look out from his towerAsh de Abendgold glimmer grew dim,Und saw on de road troo de GauerTen shpearmen coom ridin to him:Und he schvear: “May I lose my next bitter,Und denn mit der Teufel go hang!If id isn’t dat pully young Ritter,De hell-drivin Steinli von Slang. “De vorldt nefer had any such […]
Schunava, ke baschno del a godla,Schunava Paschomàskro.Te del miro Dewel tumenDschavena Bachtallo.[3] Schunava opré to rukaChirikló ke gillela:Kamovéla but dives,Eh’me pale kamaveva. Apo je wa’wer divessesteSchunava pro gilaviben,M’akana me avava,Pro marzos, pro kuriben. So korava kuribente,So korava apre dróm;Me kanáv miri romni,So kamela la lákero rom. DRANSLATION. I hear de gock a growin!I hear de […]
Vhen der Herr Breitmann vas a yungling, he vas go bummin aroundt goot deal in de worldt, vestigatin human natur, roulant de vergne en vergne, ash de Fraentsch boet says: “goin from town to town;” seein beobles in gemixed sociedy, und learnin dose languages vitch ornamendt a drue moskopolite, or von whose kopf ish bemosst […]
DE picknock oud at Spraker’s Wood:-It melt de soul und fire de plood.Id sofly slid from cakes und cream;Boot busted oop on brandy shdeam. Mit stims of tender graceful ring,De gals begoon a song to sing;A bland mildt lied of olden dime-Deutsch vas die doon, und Deutsch de rhyme. Wi’s uff der Stross’ wenn’s finschter […]
Die Speer die er thut führendie ist sehr gross und lang,Das sollt du glauben mire,gemacht von Vogelsgang.Sein Ross das ist die Heide,das sollt du glauben mir,Darauf er nun thut reiten,führwahr das sag ich dir.– Ein schön nerr Lied von dem Mai Und von dem Herbst. 16th century. I. PROLOGUE. HERR SCHNITZERL make a ph’losopede,Von of […]
I STOOMPLED oud ov a dafern,Breauscht mit a gallon of wein,Und I rooshed along de strassen,Like a derriple Eberschwein. Und like a lordly boar-pig,I doomplet de soper folk;Und I trowed a shtone droo a shdreed lamp,Und bot’ of de classes I proke. Und a gal vent roonin’ bast me,Like a vild coose on de vings,Boot […]
AIR – “Der Pabst lebt,” etc. WIE gehts, my frendts-if you’ll allow-I sings you rite afay shoost nowSome dretful shdories vitch dey callsDer Freyschütz, or de Magic Balls. Wohl in Bohemian land it cooms,Vhere folk trink prandy mate of plooms;[1]Dere lifed ein Yaeger-Maxerl Schmit-Who shot mit goons und nefer hit. Now dere vas von oldt […]
“Vides igitur, Collega carissime, visitationem canonicam esse rem haud ita periculosam, sed valde amoenam, si modo vinum, groggio et cibi praesto sunt.” – Novissimae Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum, Berolini F. Berggold, 1869. Epistola xxiii., p. 63. D’VAS near de state of Nashfille,In de town of Tennessee,Der Breitmann vonce vas quarderdMit all his cavallrie.Der Sheneral kept him […]
DER SHENERAL SHERMAN holts oop on his coorse,He shtops at de gross-road und reins in his horse.“Dere’s a ford on de rifer dis day we moost dake,Or elshe de grand army in bieces shall preak!”Vhen shoost ash dis vord from his lips had gone bast,There coomed a young orterly gallopin’ fast,Who gry mit amazement: “Herr […]
DER BREITMANN mit his gompanyRode out in Marylandt.“Dere’s nix to trink in dis countrie;ine droat’s as dry as sand.It’s light canteen und haversack,It’s hoonger mixed mit doorst;Und if ve had some lager beerI’d trink oontil I boorst.Gling, glang, gloria!Ve’d trink oontil ve boorst.[1] Herr Leut’nant, take a dozen men,Und ride dis land around!Herr Feldwebel, go […]
“TUNC TAPFRE AUSFUHRERE STREITUM ET RITTRIS DIGNUM POTUERE ERIAGERE LOBUM.” “Hiltibraht enti Hadubrant.” DER FADER UND DER SON.[1] I DINKS I’ll go a vightin’” – outshpoke der Breitemann.“It’s eighdeen hoonderd fordy-eight since I kits swordt in hand;Dese fourdeen years mit Hecker all roostin’ I haf been,Boot now I kicks der Teufel oop and goes for […]
Die Schöne Wittwe[1] (DE POOTY VIDOW.) I. VOT DE YANKEE CHAP SUNG. DAT pooty liddle vidowVot ve dosh’nt vish to name,Ish still leben on dat liddle shtreet,A doin’ shoost de same.De glerks aroundt de gornersSomedimes goes round to zeeHow die tarlin’ liddle vitchy ees,Und ask ‘er how she pe.Dey lofes her ver’ goot liquœr,Dey lofes […]
Breitmann In Politics: 3. Mr. Twine Explains Being "Sound Upon The Goose"
Story type: PoetryDere in his crate corved oaken shtuhl der Breitemann sot he:He lookt shoost like de shiant in de Kinder hishdorie:Und pefore him, on de tische, was – vhere man alfays foundt it-Dwelf inches of good lager, mit a Bœmisch glass around it. De foorst vordt dat der Breitmann spoke he maked no sbeech or ign!De […]
Denn for our Insdructions Comedy de ding vas protocollirt,By Docktor Emsig Grubler, who in Jena vonce studiret;Und for Breitmann his insdrugtions de comedy tid sayDat de All out-going from de Ones vash die first Morál Idée. Und de segondt crate Morál Idée dat into him ve rings,Vas dat government for every man moost alfays do […]
VHEN ash de var vas ober, und Beace her shnow-wice vingsVas vafin’ o’er de coondry (in shpodts) like efery dingsUnd heroes vere revardtet, de beople all peganTo say ‘tvas shame dat nodings vas done for Breitemann. No man wised how id vas shtartet, or vhere de fore shlog came,Boot dey shveared it vas a cinder, […]
DER SCHWACKENHAMMER coom to down,Pefore de Fall vas past,Und by der Breitmann drawed he inAsh dreimals honored gast.“Led’s see de sighdts! In self und worldt,-Dere’s ‘sighdts’ for him, to see,Who Selbstanschauungsvermögen hat,”Said Breitemann, said he. Dey vented to de Opera Haus,Und dere dey vound em blayin’,Of Offenbach (der open brook ),His show spiel Belle Heléne.“Dere’s […]