Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 74
is arranged as it is with fullconsciousness, no doubt, of its artificiality, but wdth the distinct purpose of summarizing thefeelings of the time by a selection of types. The main purpose of the picture, in full accord-ance with the sjDirit of the school to which Lessing belonged, is literary: it… … ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 45 it, storming at our imagination with a multitude of details: an indistinguisliable tempest-ofhate and scorn, insult and reviling, love and Avorshix) and pity siirging about the one centralfigure of heroic sacrifice and self-abnegation. Such a comparison between…
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