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... play , I have strictly adhered to the principle which I adopted in my former volumes of German Classics ; namely , to annotate them in much the same way in which the Greek and Latin Classics are usually treated . I have endeavoured to ...
... play , I have strictly adhered to the principle which I adopted in my former volumes of German Classics ; namely , to annotate them in much the same way in which the Greek and Latin Classics are usually treated . I have endeavoured to ...
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... play in his prologue in a very charac- teristic manner ; and that the second English translator ( 1799 ) considered the piece in the same light may be seen from the circumstance that he changed the original title into The School for ...
... play in his prologue in a very charac- teristic manner ; and that the second English translator ( 1799 ) considered the piece in the same light may be seen from the circumstance that he changed the original title into The School for ...
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... play Der junge Gelehrte , at the Fürstenschule ; and , at a later time , he wrote to his mother : ' I became convinced that books would certainly make me learned , but could never make me a man . ' He therefore sought admission into ...
... play Der junge Gelehrte , at the Fürstenschule ; and , at a later time , he wrote to his mother : ' I became convinced that books would certainly make me learned , but could never make me a man . ' He therefore sought admission into ...
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... play : Der junge Gelehrte ( The young Scholar ) . In order , however , to spare the feelings of his parents , the author's name was not mentioned on the play - bill . The play , which was very successful , and which ridiculed the ...
... play : Der junge Gelehrte ( The young Scholar ) . In order , however , to spare the feelings of his parents , the author's name was not mentioned on the play - bill . The play , which was very successful , and which ridiculed the ...
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... plays and Anacreontic verses , and his intercourse with actors and literati . Finally , Lessing comforted his parents with the promise to study medicine and to devote himself , at the same time , to philology in order to obtain ...
... plays and Anacreontic verses , and his intercourse with actors and literati . Finally , Lessing comforted his parents with the promise to study medicine and to devote himself , at the same time , to philology in order to obtain ...
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andere Auftritt Augen Balliol College Bediente bekommen Berlin besser bringen Clarendon Press Series cloth College critical Das Fräulein Der Wirth Dienste dramatic eben Edition Ehre einmal English erst expression fcap Feldjäger formerly Fellow Franziska Frau Frauenzimmerchen French Freund geben gehen Geht Geld German gern geschwind gewiß Glück glücklich gnädiges Fräulein Goethe gute guten habe hätte Herr Major Herr Wachtmeister Herr Wirth Herrn höre hören idiomatic Ihro Gnaden indem Jacob Grimm jezt Kamenz Komm kommen kommt können landlord lassen läßt Latin Lessing Lessing's Liebe lieber literary literature machen macht Mädchen Mann Minna von Barnhelm muß nehmen Oriel College Oxford Paul Werner play Professor recht rendered Riccaut Ring sagen Saxony scene schon schönes Kind schuldig sehen sein sense soll sollte sprechen Tellheim Thaler transl translated Unglück unglücklich verb vergessen viel wahr weiß weiter wenig wieder Wilhelm Tell wissen wohl Wolfenbüttel wollen wollte word würde Zimmer
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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.