A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . nsibility has not been able to cool. I found here the cor-diality of better times united with that amiable animation of BOMS LIBEAET. SCHLEGELS DEAMATIC LITERATURE. Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead tinderevery varietv of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerful-ness to me during Ufa, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading _. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hai-dlyfail of mak
A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . nsibility has not been able to cool. I found here the cor-diality of better times united with that amiable animation of BOMS LIBEAET. SCHLEGELS DEAMATIC LITERATURE. Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead tinderevery varietv of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerful-ness to me during Ufa, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading _. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hai-dlyfail of making him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands amost perverse selection of books. Ton place him in contact with the bestsociety in every period of history,—with the wisest, the wittiest, the ten-derest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. Theworld has been created for him.—Sir John Herschel. Address onihe opming of the Eton Library, AW^iDTg^jriDrs WKMjcit^svsaT v®m §(eEimiE(&] AUTHOR S PREFACE. 5 the South, which is often denied to our German seriousness,and the universal diffusion of a keen taste for intellectualamusement. To this circumstance alone I must attribute itthat not a few of the men who hold the most importantplaces at court, in the state, and in the army, artists andliterary men of merit, women of the choicest social cultivation,paid me not merely an occasional visit, hut devoted to me anuninterrupted attention. With joy I seize this fresh opportunity of laying my grati-tude at the feet of the benignant monarch who, in the permis-sion to deliver these Lectures communicated to me by wayof distinction immediately from his own hand, gave me anhonourable testimony of his gracious confidence, which I as aforeigner who ha^ not the happiness to be born under hissceptre, and merely felt mj^self bound as a German and acitizen of the world to wish hi
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