Lanterna Rally

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781230108742

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...are seldom to be seen; on the contrary, by Lippert, a little world of gems is made known, in which the more comprehensible merit of the ancients, their happy invention. judicious composition, tasteful treatment, are made more striking and intelligible, while, from the great number of them, comparison is much more possible." VVhile now we were busying ourselves with these as much as was allowed, WrNcxELMAmv's lofty life of art in Italy was pointed out, and we took his first writings in hand with devotion: for Oeser had a passionate reverence for him, which he was able easily to instil into us. The problematical part of those little treatises, which are, besides, confused even from their irony. FEELING FOR ART IN LEIPZIG. 263 and from their referring to opinions and events altogetherpeculiar, we were, indeed, unable to decipher; but as Oeser had great influence over us, and incessantly gave them out to us as the gospel of the beautiful, and still more of the tasteful and the pleasing, we found out the general sense, and fancied that with such interpretations we should go on the more securely, as we regarded it no small happiness to draw from the same fountain from which Winckelmann had allayed his earliest thirst. No greater good fortune can befall a city, than when SGYOPIII. educated men, like-minded in what is good and right, live together in it. Leipzig had this advantage, and enjoyed it the more peacefully, as so many differences of judgment had not yet manifested themselves. HUBER, a print collector, and a well-experienced connoisseur, had furthermore the gratefull acknowledged merit of having determined to make the wo of German literature known to the French; KREUCHAUF, an amateur with a practised eye, who, as the friend...