Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces: Or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkæs, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel, a Genuine Thorn Piece. E-book. Formato PDF Jean Paul Friedrich Richter   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

What advantage shall I reap in giving to the world this, my new edition of 'Siebenkæs,' embellished and perfected as it is with all the additions, corrections, and improvements which it has been in my power to make? Can I expect to be any the better for it? People will, I daresay, buy it and read it; but not give much of their time to the study of it, nor be sufficiently detailed and thorough in their criticism of it. The Pythia of Criticism has hitherto been ohary of her oracles to me, as the Greek Pythia was to other inquirers; she has chewed up my laurels, instead of crowning me with them, and prophesied little or nothing. The author very distinctly remembers setting to work, for instance, at the second edition of his 'Hesperus,' with his pruning-saw in his left hand and his oculist's knife in his right, and applying both instruments to the work to an extraordinary extent; it was in vain, however, that he looked for anything like an appreciative notice of it, either in literary or non-literary publications.

Titan: A Romance. E-book. Formato PDF Jean Paul Friedrich Richter   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Even while at work upon Hesperus,' he had formed the resolution of placing a pure man, great and noble,by the side of a reprobate, and of sur rounding them both with a multitude of beings cor responding to them. He wished to concentrate in a single work all the ideas of high philosophy which he had disseminated in his other creations, and to show them followed by their natural consequences. So strong a mind could not stop there he resolved to show the absurdity of exaggeration, whether in good or in evil, in virtue or in vice.