[114] Blütezeit der Romantik, 126.

[115] “Parfaite illusion, réalité parfaite” (Alfred de Vigny). “Die Welt wird Traum, der Traum wird Welt” (Novalis). “This sort of dreaming existence is the best; he who quits it to go in search of realities generally barters repose for repeated disappointments and vain regrets” (Hazlitt).

[116] Lit. Ang., IV, 130.

[117] About 1885.

[118] Le Théâtre en France, 304.

[119]

Je suis une force qui va!

Agent aveugle et sourd de mystères funèbres.

[120] E.g., Lillo’s Fatal Curiosity (1736) had a marked influence on the rise of the German fate tragedy.

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