A. W. Schlegel's Lectures on German Literature from Gottsched to Goethe: Given at the University of Bonn and Taken Down by George Toynbee in 1833, Together with Toynbee's 'Continuation to Heine,' with Introduction, Notes and a Portrait |
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... drama requires the heroic virtues to be domesticated , and not to be propped upon French stilts . At Wolfenbüttel we find him in a new character , invading the region of theology . In the library there he raked up an old manuscript of ...
... drama requires the heroic virtues to be domesticated , and not to be propped upon French stilts . At Wolfenbüttel we find him in a new character , invading the region of theology . In the library there he raked up an old manuscript of ...
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... drama singular inconsistencies and bold truths stand side by side . In the first place , he acknowledges unreservedly the authority of Aristotle , and goes so far as to call him the dramatic Euclid . But while he retained his allegiance ...
... drama singular inconsistencies and bold truths stand side by side . In the first place , he acknowledges unreservedly the authority of Aristotle , and goes so far as to call him the dramatic Euclid . But while he retained his allegiance ...
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... drama , and we may gather that he understood the classic principle , which he sought to imitate , no better than the romantic which he wished to avoid . It is the truth and beauty of single passages , belonging more to lyric than to ...
... drama , and we may gather that he understood the classic principle , which he sought to imitate , no better than the romantic which he wished to avoid . It is the truth and beauty of single passages , belonging more to lyric than to ...
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