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mild and mefclftil spirit of the gospkl o * PfeAee ; Whilst it is not a little gratifying to the legitimate and honourable pride of Englishmen , to know and to have it freely acknowledged by foreigners , that , next Beccaria > this happy change is mainly at * tributable to the splendid talents and unwearied benevolence of their illustrious countrymen * Romilly and Bbntham . M .
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Goethe ?* Work * . HI
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After a pause , we resume our catalogue , and purpose to present a synoptical view of the contents of the remaining volumes with fewer digressions into collateral remark . The thirteenth volume consists of miscellaneous poems , for the greater part belonging _ . to that class of Goethe ' s earliest writings ,
comic and satirical , which astonished the age , excited tumultuous applause from the gay and young , and were received with frowns from the severe and scrupulous . Written in that artificial doggerel of which Faust is the most elaborate refinement , here are his Political and Moral Puppet-Shows ; his burlesque of the then expiring and now forgotten Franco-German rhymed tragedies ;
his Fast-night play of Peter Brey the false prophet 5 a sort of Tartuffe , &c . One little squib is indeed directed against that very unpopular ultra-heretical theologian Dr . Bahrdt , the precursor of the philological school rendered illustrious by Echhorn , Paulus , &c . Driven from his professorship and becoming a vintner , the doctor nevertheless found partisans and purchasers for his new
exegesis , to which Goethe wrote a rhymed preface . In this he represents the doctor receiving a visit from the four evangelists in person with their attributes ; ( the legendary animals ;) but the doctor will not introduce them to his company unless they will submit to be shaved and dress like gentlemen . Then follows a
legend of our Saviour , such as in the middle ages would have edified the pious , and which Hans Sachs might have invented . The * poetical mission' of that popular protestant writer , whose homely rhymes aided the reformation , ? is an act of even affecting homage by the accomplished and learned poet of the 18 th and 19 th centuries to the humble shoemaker and versifier of
the 16 th . In a similar style of studied homeliness , written for the depart * ing generation , are , the verses on Meeding ' s death . And of a deeper import the Kunster ' s Erdenwallen , the artist ' s pilgrimage on earth , and the Kunstler ' s Apotheo $ e his apotheosis . These dramolets exhibit the hard fate of the artist , whose sole reward is .
The estate that wits inherit after death . In the one we see him labouring on master-pieces for breaJj m * See Taylor ' * Survey . yqL i . p . 103 .
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GOETHE'S WORKS . —No . 7 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 111, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/43/
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