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Excerpt from Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea: Translated Into English Hexameter Verse
German art. I have in the Notes at the end of the trans lation directed the reader's attention to several Homeric touches and parallel passages, for which I am indebted to Dr. Timm's Commentary, and which show how thoroughly Goethe had entered into the spirit of the Father of all Song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
