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'Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt' - it's quite depressing that the NYT is supposedly the American paper of record.
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(Heart Pangs), _Mein Herz ist schwer_ (My Heart is Heavy), _Mein Herz ist betrübt_ (My Heart is Troubled), _Mein Aug 'ist trüb_ (My Eye is Heavy): like the candid and silly dialogues with the _Röselein_ (The Little Rose), with the brook, with the turtle dove, with the lark: like those idiotic questions: _ "If the briar could have no thorns?"
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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87 Oʹ, Th. Tapeinoi tē kardia Luther renders “elend and betrübt sind,” since these words, if of literal and immediate application, would indicate the depression of the Babylonian exiles; and so would tell in favour of a
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