"Klopstock," and whether if I did he would immediately shed tears of joy over my hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Solitary Summer] Reference

The form is a pseudo-antique strophe such as Klopstock often used; the substance a rhetorical denunciation of military ambition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

This is the grave of Klopstock, the Milton of Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

Klopstock, as already quoted: 'What recompense could I ask?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Of course, he also used Klopstock, Hrabanus Maurus, and Goethe in those symphonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

Matthias Claudius (1740 – 1815), a popular poet, and friend of Klopstock, Herder and Leasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Pessimism] Reference

Goethe quickly became interested in literature; Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Homer were among his early favourites.    From Wordnik.com.  [johann wolfgang von goethe | outside of the gate | Faust I. « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

When Coleridge was told that Klopstock was the German Milton, he assented with the dry addendum, "A very German Milton.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885] Reference

The solitude and serenity of genius are rarely better realized than by musing of Klopstock and Gessner, Lavator and Zimmermann, on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

Günther, 1695-1728, the most gifted lyric poet of his race before Klopstock, made Horace his companion and confidant of leisure hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference

Thus the old parish, which was not by any means an ideal place to be born and bred in, had its compensations for a holiday schoolboy who had Milton, and Klopstock, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

"And why should I not write to Klopstock," he wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Goethe] Reference

Klopstock for her swiftness of foot, protect her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Well, she's on quite a different tack to the Klopstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reginald] Reference

Klopstock there is a wilfulness; he makes things so and so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

Haller, like him a Swiss; then suddenly Klopstock appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Literature] Reference

Klopstock and Lessing broke the fetters of French classicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference

"Do you know you are as bad tempered as Klopstock, the carpenter?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War] Reference

Gessner and Rabener, and more especially of Klopstock, Lessing, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

October Goethe received an invitation from Klopstock to meet him at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Goethe] Reference

Divine Klopstock! why didst thou not see thy apotheosis in those eyes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference

But in poetry, Klopstock and Wieland, and, in serious prose, Lessing and.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Culture Past and Present] Reference

Jacobi -- "the patriarch of German poetry," Klopstock, the author of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of Goethe] Reference

The name of Klopstock had already produced a great effect upon us, even at a distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference

Have you noticed that dreadful Klopstock youth has been pounding past us at shortening intervals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unbearable Bassington] Reference

Klopstock, the brother of the poet, no real service, but merely distant and ostentatious civility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference

In the same list with Schiller were the names of Klopstock, Campe, Washington, Kosciusko, and Wilberforce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference

Between ourselves, it is so well known that we have a saying, 'As bad tempered as Klopstock the carpenter.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War] Reference

Germany, where, with Wordsworth, he visited Klopstock in 1798, about the period of the first part of the poem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Reference

And Klopstock will by this time have forgotten my name, which indeed he never properly knew, for I could speak only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference

She had collected and privately printed the odes of Klopstock, and her death in 1774 seemed to leave Darmstadt a desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference

In Germany Wordsworth dined in company with Klopstock, and after dinner they had a conversation, of which Wordsworth took notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

Gessner and Klopstock excited many imitators: others, again, still demanded an intelligible metre, and translated this prose into rhythm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference

Even Klopstock preached him a moral sermon; there was a time when Herder was fond of using the word “Priapus” when he spoke of Goethe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference