[665]. V. sup. pp. [47], [48].

[666]. Vol. xv.

[667]. Vols. xv., xvi.

[668]. For this and the rest see ed. cit., vols. xvii.-xx.

[669]. See xviii. 65-99.

[670]. His Shakespearian passages are numerous; see especially xvii. 228 sq.

[671]. There can be no doubt that, here as elsewhere, Herder was administering a much-needed correction to the ridiculous Chauvinism of Klopstock, who was wont to extol German language and literature over all languages and literatures—past, present, and future, actual, possible, and impossible.

[672]. Let me only add a reference to his own interesting sketch of German criticism up to his time. Ideen, ii. 55, 56, ed. cit. xvi. 159 sq.

[673]. I have used the ed. in 36 vols., Leipzig, 1839-40.

[674]. 29-36 in ed. cit.