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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... Natural Daughter . Of this it has been justly said that it is as polished and as cold as marble ; the indifference with which it was received by the public warned the prudent poet to return to nature . In 1795 Goethe published his ...
... Natural Daughter . Of this it has been justly said that it is as polished and as cold as marble ; the indifference with which it was received by the public warned the prudent poet to return to nature . In 1795 Goethe published his ...
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... Nature had given it . In the works of great authors he proves that an apparently irregular arrange- ment is demanded by the nature of the subject and by the spirit in which it is treated . He demonstrates that every scene in Shakespeare ...
... Nature had given it . In the works of great authors he proves that an apparently irregular arrange- ment is demanded by the nature of the subject and by the spirit in which it is treated . He demonstrates that every scene in Shakespeare ...
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... nature of their characters were disposed to cry down everything which soared above mediocrity , and whose demi - god was Intellect , the modern march of which they were amongst the first to commence . These were the famous Philistines ...
... nature of their characters were disposed to cry down everything which soared above mediocrity , and whose demi - god was Intellect , the modern march of which they were amongst the first to commence . These were the famous Philistines ...
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