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Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in many respects, a worthy and suggestiveresemblance of the great patriarch of German literature, and indicatingto some extent that decision of character and potency of will, by means ofwhich, as we are told, he was once able to ward off an infectious fever bywhich he was menaced. It is as the author oiFaust* that Goethe here appears before us, and itis probably with this divine production that his name is still, and ever willl^e, more intimately associated, than with any other of his works, trans-cendantly great as many of them are. I was yet young in German whenI commenced the study of this immortal work, and knew little of it besides * This poem, which is styled by Bunsen Die Tragodie der Seele, was com-menced as far back as 1774, when some of the episodes were sketched out. Thewhole was remodelled in 1790 by the author, when the first separate edition, entitledFaust ein Fragment, was given to the world. But the complete poem, such as we nowpossess it, was not published till 1806.
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THE ATJTHCIR OFFAUST, THE BARON VON GOETHE. 97 the contents of my LescducJi, and the Studenten Lieder, carolled nightlyin a Parisian viausarde by a joyous group from the Fatherland,—myselfthe only Englander—dispersed for ever this many a long day, like that gallant company whose fate awoke the regrets of him who sung, inByrons line, how Corinth of the double sea was lost and won. Strong wasthe dissuasion from friendly voices, who told of the manifold difiicultiesof a work the interpretation of which had baffled the strongest minds ofGermany ; still, nothing daunted, I adventured, and soon found, to my ownsurprise, that, aided by my Wmterbuch and Mr. Hayward s admirableprose translation, I w^as making easy and satisfactory progress in mydelightful task. The obstacles arising from grammatical construction Ifound to be neither numerous nor important ; while the obscurities ofmeaning,—of which, doubtless, there are many and great,—hardly affectedthe continuity of progress, or dimi

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