 | 1818 - 762 pages
...the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which die spirit of an age or the character of a nation is shadowed...literature so as to make it suit the limits of our own prejudices, and expect to find in all literatures the same sort of excellencies, and the same sort... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1818 - 362 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which the spirit...literature so as to make it suit the limits of our own prejudices, and expect to find in all literatures the same sort of excellencies, and the same sort... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which the spirit...nation is shadowed forth, — then indeed a great and accomplithed literature is, without all doubt, the most valuable possession of which any nation can... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 270 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect, — as the aggregate mass of symbols, in which the spirit...nation, is shadowed forth, then indeed a great and various literature is, without doubt, the most valuable possession of which any nation can boast."*... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1841 - 472 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which the spirit...literature so as to make it suit the limits of our own prejudices, and expect to find in all literatures the same sort of excellencies, and the same sort... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...1843. No. 8. PROGRESS OF POETRY. LITERATURE has been justly defined, the aggregate mass of symbols by which the spirit of an age, or the character of a nation, is shadowed forth. Following, necessarily, the course of empire, and adapting itself to the various circumstances which... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1846 - 440 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which the spirit...accomplished literature is, without all doubt, the most^valuable possession of which any nation can boast. But if we allow ourselves to narrow the meaning... | |
 | 1861 - 692 pages
...modifying all the phases of thought. And literature is but the expression of thought, the medium through which " the spirit of an age, or the character of a nation is shadowed forth." As the thought of each nation and age are colored by the peculiar influences operating therein, so... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1867 - 444 pages
...consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect — as the aggregate mass of symbols in which the spirit...valuable possession of which any nation can boast. But it we allow ourselves to narrow the meaning of the word literature so as to make it suit the limits... | |
 | Friedrich von Schlegel - 1867 - 720 pages
...shadowed forth ; then, indeed, a great and accomplished literature is. without all doubt, the mo?t valuable possession of which any nation can boast....literature so as to make it suit the limits of our own prejudices, and expect to find in all literatures the same sort of excellencies. and the same sort... | |
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If we consider literature in its widest sense, as the voice which gives expression to human intellect, — as the aggregate mass of symbols, in which the spirit of an age, or the character of a nation, is shadowed forth... 
