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And this they do by the most ingenious sophisms; striving also to induce themselves to believe that their consciousness of their delusion is nothing but the sick doubting of Humanity immeshed and enslaved in the Earthly. And in the preface which I am speaking of, the writer touches upon the second part of the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee, admitting this." "Please don't make such horrible faces, Lothair!
The author of whom we are speaking had got together a few friends that he might read to them the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee' from the manuscript. They had heard some passages from it before, which had raised their expectations to the highest pitch. The author had, as usual, seated himself in the centre of the circle, at a small table where two candles were burning in tall candlesticks.
The 'Soehne des Thales' was then attracting much attention, and perhaps that dramatic writer may have been interested in this newly-developed talent, or he may have thought he saw that this young débutant was capable of being trained to the performance of the systematic round of theatre tricks, and would acquire a skilled 'stage-hand. However this may be, think of Iffland with the manuscript of the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee' in his hands.
"Of course," said Cyprian, "I was talking of the second part of the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee, in which it is that the terrible, gruesome, gigantic character to whom I was alluding occurs, the old King of Prussia, Waidewuthis.
Henry James, a curious satisfaction, a sense of harmony and ordered charm. In that caustic volume, "Elizabeth in Rugen," there is an amusing description of the indignation of the bishop's wife, Mrs. Harvey-Browne, over what she considers the stupidities of German speech. "What," she asks with asperity, "could be more supremely senseless than calling the Baltic the Ostsee?"
Indisputable as it may be that Werner carried the idea of the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee' about with him for a long time, to the best of my knowledge the first impulse to his writing it came to him from Iffland, who was anxious that he should write a tragedy for the Berlin stage.
"Ha!" cried Vincenz, very loudly and pathetically, "how the froth seethes! now that is a quotation from the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee, where the heathen priests sing it in fearful and horrible strains.
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