A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . ert themselves to extinguish atlast the old misunderstandings, and to rally, as round a conse-crated banner, all the well-disposed objects of reverence, which,mifortunately, have been too long deserted, but by faithfulattachment to which our forefathers acquired so much happi-ness and renown, and to let them feel their indestructibleunity as Germans! What a glorious picture is furnished byour history, from the most remote times, the wars with theRomans, down to the establishment of the German Empire!Then the chivalrous and brilliant era of


A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature . ert themselves to extinguish atlast the old misunderstandings, and to rally, as round a conse-crated banner, all the well-disposed objects of reverence, which,mifortunately, have been too long deserted, but by faithfulattachment to which our forefathers acquired so much happi-ness and renown, and to let them feel their indestructibleunity as Germans! What a glorious picture is furnished byour history, from the most remote times, the wars with theRomans, down to the establishment of the German Empire!Then the chivalrous and brilliant era of the House of Hohen-staufen ! and lastly, of greater political importance, and morenearly concerning ourselves, the House of Hapsburg, with itsmany princes and heroes. What a field for a poet, who, likeShakspeare, could discern the poetical aspect of the greatevents of the world! But, alas, so little interest do we Ger-mans take in events truly important to our nation, that itsgreatest achievements still lack even a fitting historicalrecord. >S 7*. 2 L 531 INDEX Accolti, 224 Achieus, 78 ADDISON, Review of, 484—485 ^SCHYLUS, Review of, 78—95,Referred to, 50, 57, 58, 71, 77,96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 10;5, 111,120, 121, 122, 128, 129, 131,132, 143, 153, 155, 105, 206,244, 247, 249, 302—339, 368,429, 431 Africanus, 204, 205 Airathon, 78, 146, 163, 165 ALFIERI, Review of, 221—3,Referred to, 23, 228, 272 Anacreon, 198 Anaxagoras, 116 Andre, 233 Andronicus (Livius), 201, 205, 200 Antiphanes, 192 Apollodorus, 191 Aretino (Pietro), 224 Ariosto, 20, 215, 224, 230, 381, 386 ARISTOPHANES, Review of, 153—173, References, 40, 41, 52, 113, 116, 117, 121, 141, 144,145, 149, 150, 174, 175, 176,194, 196, 319, 321, 351 Aristophanes (The Grammarian), 100, 179, 312Aristotle, Influence of, 233—245, References, 49, 68, 70, 112, 113, 114, 115, 186, 253, 275, 284,296 Arteaga, 217, 223 Attius, 93, 206, 207 Augustus, 201, 206, 207, 285, 336 Ayrer, 506 Ealzac, 285 Barthelemy, 49, 52, 59, 63, 105,


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