. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fio. 23. — .Johanu .Jakob Bodmer. From a copper-plate engraving; by J. I- Bause(1738-1814); original painting by A. Grail (1736-1813). mus, showed in this field wit and originality, at least in comedy,where, with keen and just perceptions, she satirized the weaknessesof her contemporaries. But jjrecisely for this reason she fell outwith her husband, whose inflated emptiness she painfully perceivedtoward the end of her comparatively short life (1713-1762). BOmiER AND BREITINGER. 155 With his exclusively F
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fio. 23. — .Johanu .Jakob Bodmer. From a copper-plate engraving; by J. I- Bause(1738-1814); original painting by A. Grail (1736-1813). mus, showed in this field wit and originality, at least in comedy,where, with keen and just perceptions, she satirized the weaknessesof her contemporaries. But jjrecisely for this reason she fell outwith her husband, whose inflated emptiness she painfully perceivedtoward the end of her comparatively short life (1713-1762). BOmiER AND BREITINGER. 155 With his exclusively Frenchified and rationalizing efforts, Gott-sched happily found a spirited opposition to his views in the Zurichwriters, Jakob Bodmer (Fig. 23) and Jakob Breitinger (Fig. 24),who had formerly joined him in his contest with the • lii. —.Johann Jakob lireitinger. From a drawing by J. Haid (1739-1809);original painting by J. K. Fuessli (1707-1781). They agreed with Gottsched in the principle that all poetry mustproceed from nature, hut they pointed out the inconsistency of theformer when he derived the excellences of the poet exclusively fromthe reason. They maintained, on the contrarjs and justly, that thepoet must possess a power similar to the creative power of nature;aiiU this they styled imagination. The two Swiss were therefore on 156 GERMANY UNDER THE LAST OF THE HAPSBURGS. the right path, but they failed to reach the end sought. They did notpossess the requisite poetical endowment to enable them to work outtheir theory and introduce it into living practice ; and they fell intothe error of trying to equalize completely the art of the poet andthat of the painter, thereby bringing into the former an utterly in-compatible element. However, they had pointed out the rightpath; and, further, they did not over
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