Identifier: ridpathlibraryof15ridp (find matches)
Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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did not have to climb over. She held the rose in her hand ; it was wellnigh ruined,and he teased her to go out with him and pluck a goodmany more. But she would not; and she walked on and explainedfor the twentieth time how much more sensible it wasfor her to stay with Madam as long as possible ; andthen they could better arrange to be married in thefall. Svend listened patiently to her, and in this way theywalked on from corner to corner, across the slopes be-hind the town. But when he had her so far, he tookher about the waist and said : Dont be foolish, now,Elsie ! What do you want down in that black hospital?Only think how fresh and lovely it is here ! He was browned again by the sun ; the warm gypsyblood flowed up into his cheeks, and his teeth glistenedin the twilight. It was impossible for her to withstandhim ; and, happy and careless, she ran away with himinto the silent, beautiful summer night.—From Elsie ;translated for the University of Literature by MilesMenander Dawson.
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KLOPSTOCK, Friedrich Gottlieb, a German poet, born at Quedlinburg, Prussia, July 2,1724; died at Hamburg, March 14,1803. At an earlyage, while a student at the Seminary of Schulp-forte, he conceived the idea of writing an epicpoem upon the story of Henry the Fowler. Heentered the University of Jena, where he studieduntil 1745, and his enthusiasm took a religiousturn, and he chose The Messiah as the themeof his proposed epic. In 1746 he went to Leipsic,where a literary association had been gathered to-gether, the aim of which was an entire renovationof the form and spirit of German poetry. Thisassociation established at Bremen a literary jour-nal, the Literarische Zeitung. The first three can-tos of Klopstocks Messiah were published in thisjournal in 1748, the last part as late as 1773. Fromthe outset Klopstock was recognized in certaincircles of Germany as a great epic poet, rankingwith Dante and Milton. Later generations havefailed to accord to him any such place. The external life

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