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... expressions employed in it may offer difficulties to English readers 1 . ' At Altmühl , a town in the Oettingen territory , an honest and well - to - do citizen had a son , whom he had often urged to marry , but had never been able to ...
... expressions employed in it may offer difficulties to English readers 1 . ' At Altmühl , a town in the Oettingen territory , an honest and well - to - do citizen had a son , whom he had often urged to marry , but had never been able to ...
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... expressions that it may well be said that no one - even in his own time - could have written like him , and that certainly nobody can do so now . Hermann Grimm observes of Goethe's style : " It is so strongly INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... expressions that it may well be said that no one - even in his own time - could have written like him , and that certainly nobody can do so now . Hermann Grimm observes of Goethe's style : " It is so strongly INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... expressions of Hermann and Dorothea could be retained , if we were to turn the poem into prose , or even into the modern style of poetry . Just as a full appreciation of the Homeric style is not obtained until we can approximately ...
... expressions of Hermann and Dorothea could be retained , if we were to turn the poem into prose , or even into the modern style of poetry . Just as a full appreciation of the Homeric style is not obtained until we can approximately ...
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... expressions der Sohn and das Weib der Jugend , these being imitations of the phrase koupidin äλoxos , translated by Voss as Jugendgemahl , jugendlich Weib , Jugendgenossin . The character of the single speeches is generally indicated by ...
... expressions der Sohn and das Weib der Jugend , these being imitations of the phrase koupidin äλoxos , translated by Voss as Jugendgemahl , jugendlich Weib , Jugendgenossin . The character of the single speeches is generally indicated by ...
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... expressions are incorrect ' ; but in so saying , we do not mean to censure the poet , nor do we prefer Voss's tame ' correct- ness ' to Goethe's splendid ' incorrectness " ! On this head , we may well quote Schiller's epigram : 1 To ...
... expressions are incorrect ' ; but in so saying , we do not mean to censure the poet , nor do we prefer Voss's tame ' correct- ness ' to Goethe's splendid ' incorrectness " ! On this head , we may well quote Schiller's epigram : 1 To ...
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17 Paternoster Row according adverb alliteration amphimacer apothecary appears Cambridge character clergyman cloth College common commonly Comp compound country course dactyl Demy Octavo denotes diminutive Dorothea Dorothea's doubt English Examination expresses expression father Fellow first French fürwahr generally genitive German given Goethe Goethe's good great Greek Hand Haus Hauſe heart Hermann Hermann's herrlichen Herz Homeric house instance instead Isaac Barrow iſt Jüngling Kinder language less life line love Mädchen make Mann meaning means Menschen merely mother Mutter no doubt noun Observe passage perhaps phrase place poem poet poetical prefer present properly prose prose we should read sagte same says second see Aue ſein sense sentence ſich ſie sogleich Sohn spondee St John's College style take things thought time Trinity College Tripos understand understood University University of Cambridge unsern unusual used usual Vater verb versezte Wagen weiß whole Wöchnerin wohl word work Worte years
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