Lessing's Laokoon

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Lessing's Laokoon
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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P. 8, 1. 1. bei dem heftigsten Leiden, 'notwithstanding 'the violence of his suffering.
1. 2. welcher sich entdecket, 'which discovers (i.e. discloses) itself.' 1. 3. ganz allein, ' simply and solely,' goes with ' an dem Unter- leibe,' and is repeated by ' beinahe selbst, ' almost by itself.' 1. 4 an dem schmerzlich eingezogenen TJnterleibe, 'in looking at the painful contraction of the abdomen.' 1. 11. wie es Sadolet besehreibt, as Sadolet (1477-1547 ; secretary to Leo X and cardinal) describe
...s it in his poem on the statue of Laocoon, quoted in note on p. 57.
1. 13. Bau, 'build," framework.' und gleichsam abgewogen, 'and weighed out as it were,' i. e. distributed or diffused in equal proportions.
1. 15. aber wir wiinschten, the conditional mood; 'but we should like,' or, ' we would fain be able to endure misery like this great man.' 1. 18. Der Ausdxuck einer so grossen Seele gent weit uber die Bildung der schonen Natur, ' the expression of so great a soul is a far higher achievement than the representation of natural beauty.' Die sehone Natur, 'beautiful nature,' i.e.


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