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Excerpt from The Universal Anthology, Vol. 6: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Medieval and Modern, With Biographical and Explanatory Notes
At the bottom of the German heart there is a good deal of senti mentality. This feeling, which makes us so fond of singing and music, of snug family life, and cheerful conviviality, has given to our literature a peculiar ?avour, a popular turn, an inclination to What moves the soul of the peasant and the labourer, not rarely, indeed, at the cost of realistic incident, or refined form. But out of this level of literary cottage life there rises from time to time a bold spire of thought, pointing to the mystic and the metaphysic. In the act of rearing such a structure the German mind used to exert all its original power, and then to abandon itself for a while to rest or distraction. In consequence we have had, in the course of centuries, several striking Blutheperioden, but not that unbroken continuity of fine literature that England has enjoyed, chie?y from the time of Chaucer, to the present day.
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