A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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Page 282
... published his Theses in Wittenberg , so Goethe and Schiller published their Xenien . No one before had the courage so to confront sacred Dullness , so to lash all Hypocrisy . " In 1797 , Schiller urged Goethe to take up once more the ...
... published his Theses in Wittenberg , so Goethe and Schiller published their Xenien . No one before had the courage so to confront sacred Dullness , so to lash all Hypocrisy . " In 1797 , Schiller urged Goethe to take up once more the ...
Page 314
... published Delphine . Immediately all Paris was aroused at the ideas she stated so blithely concerning religion , mar- riage , and politics . One critic wrote , " Nothing could be more dangerous or more immoral than the principles set ...
... published Delphine . Immediately all Paris was aroused at the ideas she stated so blithely concerning religion , mar- riage , and politics . One critic wrote , " Nothing could be more dangerous or more immoral than the principles set ...
Page 389
... published The Life and Letters of Edward FitzGerald , Browning read a reference to his wife , Elizabeth Barrett , and instantly dashed off a sonnet , both poor in taste and as poetry . FitzGerald had written a friend : " Mrs. Browning's ...
... published The Life and Letters of Edward FitzGerald , Browning read a reference to his wife , Elizabeth Barrett , and instantly dashed off a sonnet , both poor in taste and as poetry . FitzGerald had written a friend : " Mrs. Browning's ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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