Excerpt from Select Idylls: Or Pastoral Poems; Translated From the German of Salomon Gessner Though it is some time since the writings of Gessner have Obtained considerable celebrity both on the Continent and in this country, and though their popularity has been extended by means of French and English translations, it has so happened that the language of Poetry has never yet been employed to interpret the most poetical of all his compositions, which gained him from his contemporaries the title of the Theocritus of ...
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Excerpt from Select Idylls: Or Pastoral Poems; Translated From the German of Salomon Gessner Though it is some time since the writings of Gessner have Obtained considerable celebrity both on the Continent and in this country, and though their popularity has been extended by means of French and English translations, it has so happened that the language of Poetry has never yet been employed to interpret the most poetical of all his compositions, which gained him from his contemporaries the title of the Theocritus of Switzerland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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