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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... tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides into German rhyme . Though he abandoned the French School of tragedy , he was not quite free from its influence . If his Hermann were free from the intrigues which its example rendered essential to ...
... tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides into German rhyme . Though he abandoned the French School of tragedy , he was not quite free from its influence . If his Hermann were free from the intrigues which its example rendered essential to ...
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... tragedy for lovers , but a good tragedy cannot be usurped by any class ; it addresses itself to mankind at large . The hero is a worthless character , who is subject to every feeling and faithful to none . Discontented with ordinary ...
... tragedy for lovers , but a good tragedy cannot be usurped by any class ; it addresses itself to mankind at large . The hero is a worthless character , who is subject to every feeling and faithful to none . Discontented with ordinary ...
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... tragedies , in which he is no longer true to his theory of the natural , for the language , instead of being the prose of common life , rises often to the poetical . At this period Goethe made a deep study of the Greek tragedy , and ...
... tragedies , in which he is no longer true to his theory of the natural , for the language , instead of being the prose of common life , rises often to the poetical . At this period Goethe made a deep study of the Greek tragedy , and ...
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