The last of the grand old generation of Germanpoets is dead.
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Gretchen's chief literary pleasure had been the study of the Germanpoets.
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At this time, Wieland was there the most popular of the Germanpoets.
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True, he did not encourage the rising young Germanpoets Lessing and Goethe.
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Yes, death might have been beautiful, but fate is never propitious to Germanpoets.
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But destiny is never propitious to Germanpoets.
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Preachers and professors denied any quality of virtue or genius to Germanpoets, philosophers, scientists, or scholars.
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The Germanpoets were scored, other writers ridiculed, and big scientists came in for their share of pen-pricking.
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Germanpoets wrote in the same classic language, and the university lectures were all delivered in the same tongue.
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Charles T. Brooks (d. 1883) is distinguished for his felicitous translations from the Germanpoets and writers.
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Quick at the Germanpoets.
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They are written and printed, and they remain in the libraries, quite in accordance with the general fate of Germanpoets.
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The subject changed to literature, and I inquired in Latin concerning the history of German poetry and the elder Germanpoets.
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And those Germanpoets,-Goethe ,Schiller ,andJean Paul,-whatto modern eyes were Frankfort, Stuttgart, and Baireuth, unconsecrated by their endeared forms?
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Here I can only deal with the brilliant genius whose evolutionary ideas are of special interest-thegreatest of Germanpoets, Wolfgang Goethe.
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And yet it seems as if Teutonic tradition, Teutonic feeling, and Teutonic thought had the first claim on English and Germanpoets.