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...proves the lady to possess, not great genius, surely, but the highest talent. This, combined with her undeniable beauty of person, renders us loath to criticise. Her comedy in the first three acts was brilliant, but not wonderful; her tragedy in the last two acts simply magnificent. In this portion of the play her principal fault - a declamatory utterance - was lost in the storm of her passion...
...regard to Germany "every one ought to know that the foundation of German scholarship is laid, not in the universities, but in the Gymnasien. At these institutions attendance is rigidly required." At all the universities a few only are studious; a large portion of the students take more interest in drinking, singing, and duelling than in study...