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"No! he declares that it is the language of barbarians and bear-catchers; scolds about us, and despises us, and yet knows as little of us as the man in the moon. He adores his Voltaire. Old Fritz knows the French poet by heart, but Lessing he knows nothing of. He abuses 'Goetz von Berlichingen, and 'Werther's Sorrows." "Oh! I know it all I know the king's adjutant-general, von Siedlitz.
"You have spoken with him, then, yourself?" asked Goethe. "Yes, eight years ago; General von Siedlitz procured me an audience. "And did he not fulfil his promise?" "No, had it been given to the least of the French writers he would have kept it, but to a German poet it was not worth while. What is a native poet to the great German king? A phantom that he knows not, and believes not.
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