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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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rmers. But as a young man, he breathed the atmosphereof his time. In the same way, in the year 1773, Schiller, a boy only fourteenyears old, was writing verses which in 1778 he wrought into The Robbers,appealing to all the enthusiasm for liberty in young Germany. In the years which we are following, the young men of America were solv-ing the political questions and preparing for the military struggles of the Ameri-can Revolution. France was in the glow of hope which made even Louis XVI.himself suppose that a golden age was come again for Frenchmen. In Englandthe protest against form and authority showed itself in signs as easily read as theletters of Junius and the Wilkes riots in London. The autocracy attempted bypoor George III., in an attempt which cost him America, was only the most * No one has translated this phrase well into English. Mrs. Humphry Ward suggests storm and stress.Drang is the origin of our word throng, and implies the pressure, rush, and common purpose of a crowd.
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KAULBAtH »inxir. GOETHE AND FREDERIKE. GOETHE 125 absurd imitation of the despotism of Louis XIV. In Germany, the revoltagainst the traditions of the past showed itself in the new outburst of nationalliterature. Young men were sick of the sway of France and the French Ian-guage, to which Frederick even had been so subservient. In all senses Frederickv;as now a very old lion—and there were those who said he had lost his teeth. Tobe German, to write and read German, to recall German memories, and to throwoff conventional restraints of whatever kind—such was the drift and determina-tion of the movement which received the excellent title of the Sturm undDrang. Soon after Goethe left Strasburg he printed his play of Goetz von Ber-lichingen. The hero is a true character of history. He was born about theyear 1480 and died in 1562. His life had been published in 1731, and Goethemade the drama on the lines of the true history. The play defies all the unities of the French drama, like the

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