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- Eichendorff Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

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- Hebbel Maria Magdalena


Eichendorff Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

Page 114-130
1 sparrows
2 bird's call (imitation)
3 forever
4 farewell
5 rocking babies
6 coach
7 graciously
8 old form of address
9 reverence
10 unharnessed
11 vestibule
12 formal dress
13 draped
14 aquiline
15 inflate
16 like the pendulum of a tower clock
17 farmboy
18 stroll around
19 unprofitable
20 amount to something
21 well-phrased
22 whose wings have been clipped
23 it was a pleasant life in the garden
24 rotunda
25 joyful anticipation
26 "man proposes, God disposes"
27 avenue of beech trees
28 to show myself
29 my heart aches
30 I had a terrible sneezing attack
31 freely
32 arrogant
33 tulip
34 I have to say
35 taken up another trade
36 dressed up
37 ballrooms
38 fluttered
39 barrel-organs
40 bittern
41 I was deadly afraid
42 as if we called
43 showed off
44 like an angel moving quietly across the deep blue sky
45 sensible
46 The Wunderhorn ="cornucopia", a folk-song anthology by Arnim and Brentano is artificial compared to the true folk song.
47 sang away with all my heart and full throat.
48 beyond compare
49 even though
50 with a colorful fence around it
51 chatted
52 ink-well
53 wig
54 owl
55 offered
56 nothing would ever come of me
57 exquisite
58 the noble sport of hunting
59 you hardly make enough to pay for the shoes you wear out
60 cough and cold
61 tobacco snuffing
62 beat you up
63 smart aleck
64 hoofbeats
65 hunting habit
66 I felt just as I did when I...
67 female protagonist in Ludwig Tieck's story
68 I couldn't move
69 penetrate to the very marrow
70 arcade
71 the sunlight was reflected up and down the columns
72 tightly laced
73 head-dress
74 looked
75 what will become of you?
76 When, I stood and felt as if
77 description of dawn
78 dewdrops
79 blew away
80 times
81 turned and walked toward me
82 sneered
83 get-up
84 be short
85 on the ground
86 strewn
87 aspen
88 steal from someone
89 could see across
90 danced around
91 fanned
92 pin
93 where could he be?
94 keyboard
95 waist
96 servants
97 serenade
98 dressed up
99 got settled
Page 131-145
1 older aunt
2 spikes
3 night-owl
4 urge to travel
5 dusty
6 morning haze
7 knob
8 I would have thought the man had better manners
9 gingerbread
10 most esteemed Sir Tax Collector
11 agility
12 orchard
13 night's lodging
14 actually: Pomeranzen
15 are trampling on the grass
16 brute
17 scold
18 crooked-legged
19 a path that few people have traveled on
20 guidance
21 grassy valley
22 crickets
23 people like you and me
24 attentive
25 country song
26 leaned against
27 whisper
28 farm people
29 dance
30 completely changed
31 groped around
32 at the time
33 small wine-glass
34 firstly
35 shaking his head
36 that cannot be changed
37 rammer
38 curse at
39 drunk
40 marks on the door that keep track of drinks consumed
41 trimmed your moustache (cheated)
42 bit in two
43 mean
44 Last Judgement
45 Jews
46 shaggy bears
47 in a high voice
48 love of one's neighbor
49 assistant medical officer
50 frenzied anger
51 love of human kind
52 before you knew it
53 mutton
54 married young
55 proverbs
56 count's residence
57 moonlit
58 sinful
59 pull my legs up
60 would be surprised
61 turned the pockets inside out
62 you won't have any damage from it
63 could not be reasoned with
64 belt
65 mountainside
66 humming and buzzing
67 highway robber
68 lead astray
69 looked at him very closely
70 ate
71 was good for me
72 chopped down
73 foggy valley
74 wings
75 how handsome he is
76 sang
77 bridled
78 poured
79 alongside
80 coachman's seat
81 wool coat
82 bows
83 outgrown
84 portmanteau, valise
85 suited me very well
86 spread
87 never stopped and stayed anywhere
88 stab
89 later
90 became confused
91 lace
92 run over
93 Tyrol (Alpine region)
94 backward
95 Lombardy
96 town next to the coach station
97 comfort
98 messy
99 blouse
Page 145-163
1 braids
2 mousetraps
3 sparse
4 sideburns
5 powdered
6 stood out from his head
7 yellowed
8 snuffed tobacco
9 servant
10 gibberish
11 talked
12 communication like at the time of the Tower of Babel
13 vermin
14 stretched out
15 hoopoe (bird)
16 rises
17 vines
18 shooting pain in my heart
19 wallet
20 made a plopping sound
21 over backward
22 crossed herself
23 circulars letters sent out in advance
24 servant
25 harnessed
26 protesting
27 couch
28 clanking
29 tomb
30 screech-owls
31 leaned out of the carriage
32 this crazy riding
33 swallow's nest
34 sunken road
35 God be with you
36 horseshoes
37 paved (with cobble stones)
38 tassel
39 bunch of keys
40 candelabra
41 bows
42 suitcase
43 tip
44 shed
45 man
46 candy
47 greenhorn
48 a soft beard
49 ground
50 Ital. Poor girl
51 delicious
52 nailed down
53 good night
54 emptied
55 nice
56 latched
57 pruned
58 bunch of keys
59 fiddle bow
60 winked
61 "Hey, is someone there?"
62 enchanted
63 magic formula that sets the table in a fairy tale
64 Parmesan cheese
65 I ate until I was no longer hungry
66 became all disjointed
67 craftsman
68 shout with joy
69 address
70 eliminated
71 by heart
72 emptied
73 fashionable
74 eyes rolling
75 cranes
76 castellan
77 housekeeper
78 butcher
79 in case something stirred I was planning to run toward the door with it
80 let go
81 have it easy
82 gnawed
83 began to slide
84 hit the ground with both feet
85 brain pan
86 anticipated
87 God, heart, love, madness
88 slip toward me
89 pagans
90 pinnacles
91 marble thresholds
92 fragrance
93 ornaments
94 sprained
95 put away
96 unmoved
97 would fly
98 paint
99 paint a portrait of
Page 164-178
1 paint buckets
2 dabs of paint
3 spread
4 stretched
5 Jesus child
6 back of the chair
7 slice of buttered bread
8 you are kidding 9 famous Italian painters
10 rough riding wagon
11 canvas cover
12 carriages
13 flaming
14 bum
15 beast
16 situated on the hill
17 in nature
18 covered with vines
19 vine leaves
20 in a fight
21 truncated
22 newly arrived
23 Comment about J.E. Hummel "Party at a an Italian Country House" actually exhibited at the Berlin Exposition in E.T.A. Hoffmann's story Die Fermate.
24 of my own invention
25 gleam of silver
26 from here on out
27 painter's brush
28 Duke
29 diamond mine
30 empty plate
31 piece of paper
32 crowd of people
33 dear young lady
34 topic
35 honest
36 paraded
37 pacify
38 wonderful
39 diversion
40 leaps
41 ivy
42 pagan
43 foliage
44 in scribbly writing
45 (lead) pen
46 flickered
47 got very skillful
48 was very beautiful
49 indisputably
50 civic duty
51 are on the decline
52 teach you some morality
53 seven-league boots
54 with legs spread
55 square in Rome
56 where everyone wants to go when there's a good opportunity
57 starving
58 time is weighing on him
59 my esteemed
60 vines
61 moonlit
62 flickering moonlight
63 sofa
64 murder!
65 shivered
66 flower boxes
67 high-arched
68 I was flabbergasted
69 without hesitating grabbed me by the coat-tail
70 love
71 I don't ever want to see you again
72 bats
73 hatched
74 didn't waste any time
75 password and battle cry at the same time
76 Österreich
77 after the country's fashion
78 tower of the Stephansdom (Cathedral in Vienna)
79 wind instruments
80 of whom
81 paused
82 travel money
83 struggled through
84 nowadays
85 =Blasinstrumente, see 79
86 portico
87 blazed
88 brew
89 folded over
90 wine so bad that two men have to hold the down the one who drinks it
91 local
92 dug
93 big pocket
94 regalia (which means the map that was probably made before 1806)
95 orb of Empire
96 consulted
97 route of march
98 city in Austria
99 who are you playing for there?
Page 178-192
1 charcoal burners (used by poor people)
2 refined
3 hotel
4 what foolishness
5 sense of honor
6 I detest and reject the simple people, as Latin writers says
7 your most obedient servant
8 apply ourselves
9 confrere
10 the clergy won't turn on the clergy
11 Karlsbad (town in Bohemia)
12 don't adhere so strictly to the calendar either
13 we must differentiate one thing from another
14 What's proper for Jupiter, is not proper for an ox
15 dawn is friend of the muses
16 lecture hall
17 holy father Cook
18 bootjack
19 where a fire is made for us
20 clatter of dishes
21 joyous
22 repeat their lessons
23 devotion and remorse
24 sheet music
25 propped up
26 practiced
27 play
28 Hurray!
29 fellow students
30 scarlet
31 English horse
32 put our money together
33 fare
34 copper coins
35 would have liked to converse with her
36 breviary
37 inserted
38 master musician
39 unpacked
40 out of great devotion
41 enter service
42 filled his hunting cup
43 leaned forward
44 go scouting
45 Your Reverence
46 coughed until he could not speak
47 all together
48 farewell
49 far and wide
50 peace to him who sits behind his stove
51 glide
52 shortly
53 comes from his house that blessed man
54 north wind
55 joined in
56 castle hill
57 dotted
58 almost got my feet tangled in the potato vine
59 fragrance
60 welcome
61 sing for
62 white as flowers
63 garland of flowers
64 bridal wreath
65 opera by von Weber
66 pinched
67 escaped
68 fiery look
69 poet's coat
70 visionary
71 wind of travel
72 folds of the drapery
73 robe
74 Tiber (river flowing through Rome)
75 rabbits
76 myrtle wreath
77 seductively
78 placed firmly
79 aftertaste
80 get over your surprise
81 afterwards
82 inventions
83 pour out
84 orations
85 offers
86 played a part in one
87 spy
88 pre-arranged mail run
89 hourly
90 eagerness
91 trombones
92 dancing and whirling
93 totally lost his composure
94 scared
95 fading
96 horseback rider
97 fast
98 strange thoughts
99 almonds
Page 192-193
1 abducted from the boarding school
2 interrupted
3 I've always respected and admired him
4 bloomers