Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)

by John Morley

[287] Poés. Dram.., § 2. The Poetics of the Genre Sérieux are to be found, vii. 137, 138.

[288] i. 316.

[289] Hints for an Essay on the Drama, p. 155.

[290] Hist. du Romantisme, p. 93.

[291] Der Gegensatz des Classischen und des Romantischen, etc. By Conrad Hermann, p. 66.

[292] Schopenhauer, Ethik, 199

[293] Œuv., iv. 29.

[294] Werke, xxv. 291.

[295] The original of the text, published in the Assézat edition of Diderot's works, was a manuscript found, with other waifs and strays of the eighteenth century, in a chest that had belonged to Messrs. Würtel and Treutz, the publishers at Strasburg. Its authenticity is corroborated by the fact that in the places where Goethe has marked an omission, we find stories or expressions from which we understand only too well why Goethe forbore to reproduce them.

[296] v. 339.