Book contents
- Frontmatter
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- I DESCRIPTION OF PAINTINGS IN PARIS AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE YEARS 1802—1804
- II PRINCIPLES OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
- III CONTRIBUTIONS IN AID OF THE STUDY OF ROMANTIC POETRY AND GENIUS
- IV MODERN GERMAN PAINTINGS
- V ROMANTIC FICTIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- VI MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
- VII ON THE LIMITS OF THE BEAUTIFUL
- VIII ON THE LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDIANS
- Preface
- Book I ON THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Book II ON THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
- Book III HISTORICAL IDEAS
- Chap. 1 On the Origin of Poetry
- Chap. 2 On the earliest Emigration of Nations
- Chap. 3 On Indian Colonisation and Indian Legislature
- Chap. 4 On the general Importance of the Study of the Oriental and Indiau Literature, and its true Aim and Object
- General Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Chap. 4 - On the general Importance of the Study of the Oriental and Indiau Literature, and its true Aim and Object
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- Contents
- I DESCRIPTION OF PAINTINGS IN PARIS AND THE NETHERLANDS IN THE YEARS 1802—1804
- II PRINCIPLES OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
- III CONTRIBUTIONS IN AID OF THE STUDY OF ROMANTIC POETRY AND GENIUS
- IV MODERN GERMAN PAINTINGS
- V ROMANTIC FICTIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
- VI MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
- VII ON THE LIMITS OF THE BEAUTIFUL
- VIII ON THE LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDIANS
- Preface
- Book I ON THE INDIAN LANGUAGE
- Book II ON THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
- Book III HISTORICAL IDEAS
- Chap. 1 On the Origin of Poetry
- Chap. 2 On the earliest Emigration of Nations
- Chap. 3 On Indian Colonisation and Indian Legislature
- Chap. 4 On the general Importance of the Study of the Oriental and Indiau Literature, and its true Aim and Object
- General Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Frederick von Schlegel , pp. 515 - 526Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014