In one vol. 12mo. Fifth Edition.
LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE,
BY FREDERIC VON SCHLEGEL. TRANSLATED BY J. G. LOCKHART.
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“By far the most rational and profound view of the History of Literature which has yet been presented.”—Blackwood.
“One of the most valuable works that ever adorned a library.”—Herald.
“This work is destined to universal popularity: its beneficial influence will be coeval with the existence of literature and civilization.”—Literary Gazette.
“Schlegel, standing as it were upon the Alp of time, sketches with an artist hand the glorious literary panorama lying beneath the horizon of the past. With the intuitive perception of genius, he unfolds to us the mechanism of each system of ancient philosophy that spent its ephemeral breath in struggling for a supremacy, which, if temporarily attained, was early lost from the want of an innate, self-sustaining, vital principle. The occult sciences, poetry, languages, exploded sophisms, &c. are presented to the eager eye in groups wrought with the same vivid, life-like portraiture, with here and there—like the air amid the most complex sounds in music—an acute critical aphorism interspersed; so fascinating in its keen subtlety that we are lost in admiration.”—Louisville Journal.
THE RUINS OF CENTRAL AMERICA.