text:  It must have been a god-like treat indeed in these terrible times when a man in Germany could hardly draw his breath for fear of Davoust to have seen launched from the dark fiery Saracenic eyes of Deutschland's political Luther those "thundering fulgurations"[19] of indignant German hate which were soon to be followed by a tempest of more indignant cannon-balls; but few and feeble amid the barrenness of German political literature are the voices from those prophetic times that have been wafted to British ears