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... Edition of German Classics in the Clarendon Press Series . Various circumstances have compelled me to depart from the order of succession first planned out , which was to issue them in a graduated series , beginning with Lessing's Minna ...
... Edition of German Classics in the Clarendon Press Series . Various circumstances have compelled me to depart from the order of succession first planned out , which was to issue them in a graduated series , beginning with Lessing's Minna ...
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... edition , and with that of Hettner . I have not allowed myself any arbitrary altera- tion in order to improve ' Lessing ; and whenever I have deviated from other editions , I have given my reasons for doing so . It will be seen , by a ...
... edition , and with that of Hettner . I have not allowed myself any arbitrary altera- tion in order to improve ' Lessing ; and whenever I have deviated from other editions , I have given my reasons for doing so . It will be seen , by a ...
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... editions of German Classics , prefixed Arguments to the Acts , and I have also given Bibliographical Appendices , classified according to subjects , showing the Lessing Literatur both in German and in English . The Life of Lessing which ...
... editions of German Classics , prefixed Arguments to the Acts , and I have also given Bibliographical Appendices , classified according to subjects , showing the Lessing Literatur both in German and in English . The Life of Lessing which ...
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... editions of German Classics has steadily increased with each volume ; and this I attribute to the constantly growing conviction that the modern Classics require a Com- mentary almost as much as the ancient ones , and that they are fully ...
... editions of German Classics has steadily increased with each volume ; and this I attribute to the constantly growing conviction that the modern Classics require a Com- mentary almost as much as the ancient ones , and that they are fully ...
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... edition of Egmont , and my ' Life of Schiller ' ( p . xii . ) prefixed to my edition of Wilhelm Tell . father , Johann Gottfried Lessing , who was at first xii LIFE OF LESSING .
... edition of Egmont , and my ' Life of Schiller ' ( p . xii . ) prefixed to my edition of Wilhelm Tell . father , Johann Gottfried Lessing , who was at first xii LIFE OF LESSING .
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Page 162 - Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
Page 190 - The books and documents referring to the Tell legend, are in themselves a library; but Dr. Buchheim, in an exhaustive essay prefixed to the tragedy, has condensed the contents of that library into two dozen most interesting pages. He gives a history of the Forest Cantons, traces the origin and growth and spreading of the legend of Tell with a zeal and consequent completeness with which it has never yet been treated.
Page xlvi - To vie with both his brothers in displaying The virtue of his ring ; assist its might With gentleness, benevolence, forbearance, With inward resignation to the godhead, And if the virtues of the ring continue To show themselves among your children's children, After a thousand thousand years, appear Before this judgment-seat — a greater one Than I shall sit upon it, and decide.
Page xlvi - For all that follows may be guessed of course. Scarce is the father dead, each with his ring Appears, and claims to be the lord o' th' house. Comes question, strife, complaint ; all to no end, For the true ring could no more be distinguished Than now can — the true faith.
Page xxxiii - ... délice; et il pourra arriver que notre langue polie et perfectionnée s'étende en faveur de nos bons écrivains d'un bout de l'Europe à l'autre.