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It is worth noting incidentally that Gellert does not seem to have known Sterne at all. His letters, for example, to Demoiselle Lucius, which begin October 22, 1760, and continue to December 4, 1769, contain frequent references to other English celebrities, but none to Sterne.
I have read, 'Put not your trust in princes. These words seem wise to me, and you must allow me to interpret them literally, and act accordingly." Gellert withdrew, and hastened home. The major returned to the king, admiring, almost envying, Gellert's modest, independent, and beautiful character. "Quintus," said the king, "I thank you sincerely for my new German acquaintance.
How oppressive, then, must have been to me the exhortations of Gellert, whom, considering the generally laconic style with which he was obliged to repel our obtrusiveness, I was unwilling to trouble with such singular questions, and the less so as in my more cheerful hours I way myself ashamed of them, and at last left completely behind me this strange anguish of conscience, together with church and altar.
"In the name of the king!" cried Gellert; "what does the great warrior-hero want with poor Gellert?" "That I will tell you," replied a voice from the door; and as Gellert turned, he saw before him the tall figure of a Prussian officer. "Pardon me for having entered without your permission. Your servant left the door open, and I thought "
As Gellert raised his dying yell, a little child's cry answered it from beneath the cradle, and there Llewelyn found his child unharmed and just awakened from sleep. But just beside him lay the body of a great gaunt wolf all torn to pieces and covered with blood. Too late, Llewelyn learned what had happened while he was away.
Thereupon her husband regulated my hours; for I was to hear lectures on philosophy, the history of law, the Institutes, and some other matters. The reverence and love with which Gellert was regarded by all young people was extraordinary. I had already called on him, and had been kindly received by him.
"That is quite another man than Gottsched!" The modest Gellert says he "remembered Jesus Sirach's advice, PRESS NOT THYSELF ON KINGS, and never came back;" nor was specially sent for, in the hurries succeeding; though the King never quite forgot him.
After the loss of his wife he lived still more retired than before, and at last I shunned him in order to avoid his reproaches. But it was peculiarly unfortunate that Gellert would not use the power which he might have exercised over us.
So he blew a louder blast on his horn and called Gellert by name, but still the greyhound did not come. At last Prince Llewelyn could wait no longer and went off to the hunt without Gellert. He had little sport that day because Gellert was not there, the swiftest and boldest of his hounds.
Schlegel, a German poet, among the most remarkable for intellectual talent, with genius to raise him to a place among poets of the first order; Gellert, a truly simple poet, Rabener, and Lessing himself, if I am warranted to introduce his name in this category this highly-cultivated scholar of criticism and vigilant examiner of his own genius all these suffer in different degrees from the platitudes and uninspired movements of the natures they chose as the theme of their satire.
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