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copy of the Breitmann Ballads
The Breitmann Ballads
by
Charles G. Leland.
1889
TO THE MEMORY
OF THE LATE
NICHOLAS TRÜBNER
This Work is Dedicated
by
Charles G. Leland
This Project Gutenberg Edition
is dedicated to:
Poul and Karen Anderson
without whose inspiration
it would not exist.
Geoff Kidd
Krista Rourke
Ad Musan.
"Est mihi schoena etenim et praestanti corpore liebsta
Haec sola est mea Musa meoque regierit in Herza.
Huic me ergebo ipsum meaque illi abstatto geluebda,
Huic ebrensaulas aufrichto opfroque Geschenka,
Hic etiam absingo liedros et carmina scribo."
-- Rapsodia Andra, Leipzig, 17th Century
Preface
To the Edition of 1889.
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Though twenty years have passed since the first appearance
of the "Breitmann Ballads" in a collected form, the author is
deeply gratified -- and not less sincerely grateful to the public
-- in knowing that Hans still lives in many memories, that he
continues to be quoted when writers wish to illustrate an
exuberantly joyous "barty" or ladies so very fashionably dressed
as to recall "de maidens mit nodings on," and that no
inconsiderable number of those who are "beginning German"
continue to be addressed by sportive friends in the Breitmann
dialect as a compliment to their capacity as linguists.
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