Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
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ISBN13: 9780217815567
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIFE AND WRITINGS OF WERNER.' 1828.] If the charm of fame consisted, as Horace has mistakenly declared, ' in being pointed at with the finger, and having it said, This is he ' few writers of the present age could boast of more fame than Werner. It has been the unhappy fortune of this man to stand for a long period incessantly before the world, in a far stronger light than naturally belonged to him, or could exhibit him to advantage. Twenty years ago he was a man of considerable note, which has ever since been degenerating into notoriety. The mystic dramatist, the sceptical enthusiast, was known and partly esteemed by all students of poetry; Madame de Stae'l, we recollect, allows him an entire chapter in her Alle- magne. It was a much coarser curiosity, and in a much wider circle, which the dissipated man, by successive indecorums, occasioned; till at last the convert to Popery, the preaching zealot, came toflgure in all newspapers; and some picture of him was required for all heads that would not sit blank and mute in the topic of every coffeehouse and (esthetic tea. In dim heads, that is, in the great majority, the picture was, of course, perverted into a strange bugbear, and the original decisively enough condemned; but even the few, who might see him in his true shape, felt too well that nothing loud could be said in his be- 1 Foreign Review, No. i.Lebens-Abriss Friedrich Ludwig Zacha- rias Werners. Von dem Herausgeber von Hoffmanns Leben und Nachlass. (Sketch of the Life of Frederick Ludwig Zacharias Werner. By the Editor of ' Hoffmann's Life and Remains.') Berlin, 1823. 2. Die Sohne des Thais. (The Sons of the Valley.) A Dramatic Poem. Part I. Die Tempter aufCypern. (The Templars in Cyprus.) Part II. Die Kreuzesbrtider. (The Brethren of the Cross.) Berlin, 1...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217815567 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217815561 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $30.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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