Die Gestalt des häßlichen Coppelius war, wie Nathanael selbst es sich gestehen mußte, in seiner Fantasie erbleicht und es kostete ihm oft Mühe, ihn in seinen Dichtungen, wo er als grauser Schicksalspopanz auftrat, recht lebendig zu kolorieren.
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The figure of the hideous Coppelius, as Nathanael himself had to admit, had faded in his imagination, and he often found it difficult to bring him vividly to life in his poems, where he appeared as a grim harbinger of fate.
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