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  • Nevertheless she wrote some of her best love poems, contained in her last book, Mein blaues Klavier (My Blue Piano), published in Jerusalem in 1943, and an extraordinary play IchundIch (IandI, 1940/4).

    Else Lasker-Sch��ler. 2009

  • Footnote 67 ... [_all German spelling in this footnote unchanged_] “Die Tausend und eine Masche, oder Yoricks wahres Shicksall, ein blaues Mährchen von Herrn Stanhope” [_all spelling unchanged] [The Bibliography is shown in the Table of Contents as “Chapter VIII”, but was printed without a chapter header.]

    Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

  • Your letters to M. de Coulon and to General von Pfuel have wrought marvels; but they are now inclined to look upon me there as a wonder from the deep, * (* Ein blaues Meerwunder.) and I must exert myself to the utmost lest my actual presence should give the lie to fame.

    Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

  • Your letters to M. de Coulon and to General von Pfuel have wrought marvels; but they are now inclined to look upon me there as a wonder from the deep, * (* Ein blaues Meerwunder.) and I must exert myself to the utmost lest my actual presence should give the lie to fame.

    Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

  • Der Gedichte zweiter Teil Berlin: Verlag Paul Cassirer, 1920; Mein blaues Klavier.

    Else Lasker-Schuler greenintegerblog 2008

  • If he tells blaue Geschichten ` blue tales 'he is lying, which might provoke someone to give him ein blaues Auge ` a blue eye' or worse, fire eine blaue Bohne ` a blue bean 'or bullet at him.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1 1979

  • She still sings—to her family, to her patients “I’ve been singing to the unconscious since I was 14.”, and for the occasional charmed and surprised perfumer, including Andy Tauer, in Brooklyn last spring: “I got to embarrass that sweet, shy man by singing Dein blaues Auge and Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz, as if squeezing him senseless wasn't bad enough.”

    Archive 2008-04-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • She still sings—to her family, to her patients “I’ve been singing to the unconscious since I was 14.”, and for the occasional charmed and surprised perfumer, including Andy Tauer, in Brooklyn last spring: “I got to embarrass that sweet, shy man by singing Dein blaues Auge and Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz, as if squeezing him senseless wasn't bad enough.”

    La Perfumista par Excellence, Part I: The Other Passions Marina Geigert 2008

  • “Die Tausend und eine Masche, oder Yoricks wahres Shicksall, ein blaues

    Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

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