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... , sharing their mother's predilections , there- fore committed the precious verses to memory , and amused themselves with personating the enraged Satan and his subordinate fiends . Standing on chairs in 8 GERMAN LITERATURE.
... , sharing their mother's predilections , there- fore committed the precious verses to memory , and amused themselves with personating the enraged Satan and his subordinate fiends . Standing on chairs in 8 GERMAN LITERATURE.
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... might be valuable enough , but Goethe soon tired of it , and protested in prose and verse against his ser- vitude . Lilli , however , though she was sincerely attached to him , could not be made to give 22 GERMAN LITERATURE.
... might be valuable enough , but Goethe soon tired of it , and protested in prose and verse against his ser- vitude . Lilli , however , though she was sincerely attached to him , could not be made to give 22 GERMAN LITERATURE.
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... verse , full of youthful spontaneity and fervor . This col- lection , which was published in 1819 under the title , " The West - Eastern Divan , " was a free imita- tion of Oriental models , translated into German by Hammer Purgstall ...
... verse , full of youthful spontaneity and fervor . This col- lection , which was published in 1819 under the title , " The West - Eastern Divan , " was a free imita- tion of Oriental models , translated into German by Hammer Purgstall ...
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... verse of an entirely alien civilization . It is the metrical forms which Platen , Heine , Rückert and Bodenstedt have made so familiar to German readers , and which German poets even to - day are assiduously cultivat- ing . Although ...
... verse of an entirely alien civilization . It is the metrical forms which Platen , Heine , Rückert and Bodenstedt have made so familiar to German readers , and which German poets even to - day are assiduously cultivat- ing . Although ...
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... verses . Take , for instance , this , in his es- say on " Goethe's Works , " in The Foreign Quarterly Review , No. 19. The German reads : " Wie das Gestirn , Ohne Hast Aber ohne Rast , Drehe sich jeder Um die eigne Last . " Which ...
... verses . Take , for instance , this , in his es- say on " Goethe's Works , " in The Foreign Quarterly Review , No. 19. The German reads : " Wie das Gestirn , Ohne Hast Aber ohne Rast , Drehe sich jeder Um die eigne Last . " Which ...
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