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Heinrich Heine : De l'Allemagne
'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Print: Book
: [newspaper]
'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the blaze of whose parliamentary escutcheon has never yet been dimmed by the bar-sinister or inconsistency." What do you think of that?'