“In England … everything becomes professional … even the rogues of that island are pedants.”

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Selected Aphorisms from the Lyceum (1797)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #67

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German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

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