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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literature in one produced heterogeneousness in form and matter. It was a mistake to transplant the poetic life of the middle ages into the present, and instead of giving a poetic hue to our modern life, to make poetry the focus of all human activity. A modern liter ature which deals exclusively in mediaeval ideas may be popular for a time as a curiosify, but it can not satisfy the taste of a modern nation for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor von Jagemann's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...would be interesting to know the amount of beer consumed on this evening. Twelve hundred persons, drinking twelve quarter-liter glasses apiece would give thirty-six liters. This, we do not believe to be an exaggerated estimate. [Brunonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GERMAN FESTCOMMERS. | 12/20/1883 | See Source »

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