Identifier: cu31924087727123 (find matches)
Title: The German classics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: masterpieces of German literature, tr. into English
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930, ed Howard, William Guild, 1868-1960, joint ed Singer, Isidore, 1859-1939
Subjects: German literature German literature English literature
Publisher: New York, The German publication society
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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they would have done to me? DiJHBiNG. They would have sent you to the madhouse. Gebaedo. Exactly, and rightly so. Whoever is dissatis-fied with what he is will not get anywhere as long ashe lives. A healthy man does that at which he issuccessful; if he fails, he chooses another calling. Youspoke of the judgment of your friends. It does nottake much to obtain expressions of approbation andadmiration which do not cost those anything whoutter them. Since my fifteenth year I have been paidfor every labor Ive performed and should have con-sidered it a disgrace to be compelled to do somethingfor nothing. Fifty years of fruitless struggling!Can anybody be so stubborn as not to have that con-vince him of the impossibility of his dreams! Whatdid you get out of your life? You have sinfullywasted it! I have never striven for anything out ofthe ordinary; but, Sir, I can assure you of one thing:that since my earliest childhood days I have neverhad enough time left to stand out in the street for a
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Per whs ion Albert Langen, Munich FROM OLAF GULBRANSSONS FAMOUS CONTEMPORARIES* THE COUET SINGEE 381 whole week. And if I were to think that in my olddays I might be compelled to do that very thing—Sir, I am speaking only for myself now — but I can-not imagine how I could still muster the courage tolook people in the face. DuHKiNG. What? With such an opera in your hands!Eemember, I am not doing it for my own sake; I amdoing it for arts sake. GrEKARDo. You overestimate art. Let me tell you that artis something quite different from what people makethemselves believe about it. DuHEiNG. I know nothing higher on earth! (iBBAEDO. Thats a view shared only by people like your-self to whose interest it is to make this view prevailgenerally. We artists are merely one of bourgeoisiesluxuries in paying for which they will outbid eachother. If you were right, how would an opera likeWalkiirehe possible which deals with things the ex-posure of which is absolutely abhorrent to the public.Yet when

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