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    jena


    1. The Prussian loss at Jena was tinged with irony; as the battle occurred there, the University of Jena was closed, and the students and professors had to flee


    2. I expect your year in Jena seems much more agreeable, now that you have had time to forget the uncomfortable parts of it, than it really was


    3. I belong to your Jena days; days of hard living, and working, and thinking; days when, by dint of being forced to do without certain bodily comforts, the accommodating spirit made up for it by its own increased comfort and warmth


    4. He has bought a canoe, and has won the cup for swimming, wresting it from the reluctant hands of the discomfited Jena young men


    5. He sat with his back propped against the wall of the house on the only side on which, as I have explained, you can sit, and worked with a pencil at his book about Goethe in Jena with perfect placidity while


    6. I went down to Jena that afternoon and bought three pounds of them


    7. You must not come to Jena


    8. Are you not glad now that you went to Scotland instead of coming to Jena to find the Schmidts not at home? Surely long days in the heather by yourself will do much toward making you friends with life


    9. He is a trumpeter in the regiment stationed in Jena, and he brings his trumpet to fill up awkward silences


    10. If, her nerves being already on edge, I were to suggest to her even smilingly to be quiet, she would at once give notice--I know she would--and the dreary search begin again for that impossible treasure you in England call a paragon and we in Jena call a pearl

    11. And there are very few girls in Jena who would come out of it and take a situation on the side of a precipice for eight pounds a year


    12. Down in Jena a good servant can get ten pounds a year now without much difficulty


    13. Anstruther,--Today I went down to Jena with the girl from next door who wanted to do such mild shopping as Jena is prepared for, mild shopping suited to mild purses, and there I drifted into the bookshop in the market-place where I so often used to drift, and there I found a book dealing with English poetry from Chaucer onward, with pictures of the poets who had written it


    14. In Jena there were very few: rare bright spots here and there on the sober background of academic middle-class; little stars whose shining even from a distance made us blink


    15. They know nothing; he has spent his best years preoccupied with the routine of his calling, which leaves no room for anything approaching study or interest in other things, she in bringing up her son, also an officer, and in taking her daughter to those parties in Berlin that so closely resemble, I gather from the girl Vicki's talk, the parties in Jena--a little wider, a little more varied, with more cups and glasses, and with, of course, the chance we do not have in Jena of seeing someone quite new, but on the whole the same


    16. It's that book I found in the Jena bookshop


    17. Now, when I take my poets up with into the forest, and sit on one of those dusky pine-grown slopes where the light is subdued to a mysterious gray-green and the world is quieted into a listening silence, and far away below the roofs of Jena glisten in the sun, and the white butterflies, like white flowers come to life, flutter after each other across the blue curtain of heat that hangs beyond the trees, now when I open them and begin to read the noble, familiar words, will not those other words, those anecdotes, those personal descriptions, those suggestions, those button holing, leer at me between the lines? Shall I, straining my ears after the music, not be shown now for ever only the instrument, and how pitifully the ivory has come off the keys? Shall I, hungering after my spiritual food, not have pushed upon my notice, so that I am forced to look, the saucepan, tarnished and not quite clean, in which it was cooked? Please don't tell me you can't understand


    18. Come out of that gay world of yours where you are talking or being talked to all day long, and suppose yourself Rose-Marie Schmidt, alone in Jena, on a hill, with books


    19. I myself have laughed at people in Jena, strictly pious people, who will not read Goethe, who have a personally vindictive feeling against him because of his different love-affairs, and I have listened astonished to the fury with which the proposal of a few universal-minded persons to give Heine a statue was opposed, and to the tone almost of hatred with which one man whenever his name is mentioned calls out _Schmutzfink_


    20. Jena shrugged its shoulders, the larger world was blank

    21. The publisher put his thumbs in the armholes of his waistcoat, leaned back in his chair, gazed with refreshing coolness at Papa who was very hot, and said that as trade went it was quite a good check and that he had sent one that very morning to another author--a Jena celebrity who employs his leisure writing books about the Universe--for ninety pfennings


    22. It begins by telling the reader, presumably a person in search of information about Goethe, that Jena is a town of twenty thousand inhabitants, of whom nineteen thousand are apparently professors


    23. From this point, the point of the head-wear of the learned in our present year, he has to work back all the way to Goethe in Jena a century ago


    24. 'All Jena will read it,' he says, 'because they will like to hear about themselves'--I wonder if they will--'and all Germany will read it because it will like to hear about Goethe


    25. He says that if those blind and prejudiced persons, publishers, won't risk bringing it out he'll bring it out at his own expense sooner than prevent the world's rightly knowing what Goethe said and did in Jena; so there's a serious eventuality ahead of us! We really will have to live on lettuces, and in grimmest earnest this time


    26. Quick, glancing, vivid, she twinkled in the heavy Jena firmament like some strange little star


    27. The churches in Jena made her think with the tenderest regard of the old picturesque pre-Lutheran days, of the light and color and emotions of the Catholic services, and each time she was forced into one she said she made a bigger stride toward Rome


    28. But I have gone each All Saints' Day for ten years past to church in Jena in memory of her, and tried by shutting my eyes to imagine I was in a beautiful place without whitewash, or hideous, almost brutal, stained glass


    29. You came home to us saying that Jena was best, and you were thankful to be with us again


    30. But I didn't like it because it was so full, because those streets that seemed to you so empty were bewildering to me in their tumultuous traffic,--so you see how a place is what your own eye makes it, your Jena or your London eye; and I didn't like it besides because we spent a sulphuric night and morning with relations

    31. Poetic way, I say, of referring to Jena


    32. I expect this--' she waved her hand--'is quite different from Jena, and seems strange to you, but it is nothing, I assure you nothing at all, compared to Elschen's mother-in-law's furniture and food


    33. Jena is not on the way from London to Berlin, and I don't know what persuaded you that it was


    34. I hope you will waste no precious time coming to Jena to see Professor Martens


    35. 'There was a young man once,' I began, 'in the Jena cake-shop--'


    36. What do you think? Papa's book has been refused by the Jena publisher, by three Berlin publishers, by two in Stuttgart, and one in Leipzig


    37. The clouds were gone, and by the time I had done breakfast there was a brilliant blue sky, and the hills round Jena stood out so sharply against it that they looked as if somebody had been at them with a hatchet


    38. The roofs of Jena were in blue shadow


    39. We are cut off entirely from Jena and shops


    40. Perhaps we shall not be able to stop, and will be landed at last in the middle of the market-place in Jena

    41. I was so glad you gave up coming to Jena on your way to Berlin, for it showed that you try to be reasonable, and then you know Professor Martens goes to Berlin himself every now and then to take sweet counsel with men like Harnack, so you will be sure to see him sooner or later, and see him comfortably, without a rush to catch a train


    42. The snow is frozen so hard that far from being cut off as I had feared from shops and food there is the most glorious sledding road down to Jena; and at once on hearing of Joey's imminence Vicki and I coasted down on the sled and I bought the book Papa has been wanting and a gigantic piece of beef


    43. 'What an abandoned little boy,' she gasped at last--he must have been almost in Jena by the time we were able to speak


    44. No doubt you wished to see Papa as well, and, on your way through Jena, Professor Martens; but I will not pretend to suppose your call was not chiefly intended for me, for it is to me and not to either of those wiser ones that you have written every day for months past


    45. There was one in Jena while we were there who fell desperately in love with a little girl of eighteen, when he was about your age, and he adored her utterly because she was so divinely silly, ignorant, soft and babyish


    46. He adored her to such an extent that all Jena, not given overmuch to merriment, was distorted with mirth at the spectacle


    47. I imagine it in the hands of Joey, of Frau von Lindeberg, of different people in Jena, and the expression my inner eye sees on their faces makes me unable for a long while to go on with it


    48. their army at Jena and nearly captured their king and queen


    49. In 2009 a few members of the CDC met in the city of Jena, in the east of Thuringia, within the wide valley of the Saale River


    50. Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the surrender of most of the Prussian fortresses had been received, when our troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon was beginning, Anna Pavlovna gave one of her soirees












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    Synonyms for "jena"

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    "jena" definitions

    the battle in 1806 in which Napoleon decisively defeated the Prussians