84 Milton D. Baumgartner 



Two other odes by Biirde are published in Schiller's Horen;'^'^ the 

 first, An Cecilia, begins : " Wenn ich deine Zauberstimme hore " ; 

 the second, Der neiie Orpheus " Heil euch siisse Harmonien." 



The remaining reviews of Dryden's first Cecelia ode are con- 

 nected with the discussion of Alexander's Feast and appear near 

 the end of the eighteenth century. The Gottingische Anseigen 

 von Gelehrten Sachen pronounces it rather flimsy and too arti- 

 ficial;^^ in his Beispielsammlung Eschenburg commends the very 

 beautiful passages it contains ;''* Blankenburg calls it " eine ganz 

 gute Ode " f^ and Bouterwek, who prints the first stanza in Eng- 

 lish, commends the beginning and the conclusion. ^^ 



The lines dedicated to Milton and printed under his picture in 

 which Dry den attributes the genius of Homer and Virgil to the 

 English poet was imitated and translated in Germany. Before he 

 knew English,®^ Gottsched quotes then in the Critischen Dicht- 

 kunst^^ from the Spectator to show the greatness of Milton, as the 

 feud between him and Bodm^r had not yet begun. Two years 

 later Bodmer translated and published it in the preface to the first 

 translation of Paradise Lost. 



" Drey Dichter hat die Zeit hervor gebracht, 

 Der Griechen Zier, der Romer und der Britten; 

 Im ersten herrscht Erhabenheit und Macht; 

 Im andern Schonheit; beides in dem Dritten. 

 Als die Natur nicht weiter konte gehn, 

 Vereinte sie im Letztern jene Zween." 



Kasper Gottl. Lindner wrote a treatise on the life and works of 

 Martin Opitz in 1740, and in the dedication he imitates Dryden's 

 tribute to Milton. 



'''' VI, Stiick 6, p. 102, Tiibingen, 1796. 

 ''^ For the year 1786, p. 1046. 

 '^''Loco citato, VI, p. 373, 1791. 



80 Loco citato, II, p. 443a, 1793. 



81 Loco citato, VIII, p. 51, 1810. 



82 The two lines he quotes as follows : 



" The force of Nature could no further go 

 To moke a third, she joined the former two." 



83 Loco citato, p. 177, 1741. 



