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Title: The Pictures; The Betrothing
Novels

Author: Ludwig (Lewis) Tieck

Translator: Connop Thirlwall

Release Date: April 7, 2010 [EBook #31912]

Language: English

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THE PICTURES;

THE BETROTHING.

NOVELS,

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

OF

LEWIS TIECK.

* * * * *

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER,
AVE-MARIA-LANE.
1825.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON. WHITEFRIARS.

THE
TRANSLATOR TO THE READER.

A tale ought never to stand in need of a preface or commentary. The
best are those which are the most strictly national and in the highest
sense of the word popular, which touch immediately the sympathies of
the living generation, and display the common elements of our nature,
the purely human, under the social relations most familiar to the
author and the reader. For then essence and form are most intimately,
because naturally and unconsciously blended; neither is exclusively
studied, or sacrificed to the other. But even when it is the poet's
endeavour, as it is often the highest exercise of his high vocation, to
recall the image of the past with its individual peculiarities, to
refresh the fading colours of an important, but half-forgotten period,
to catch and raise the faint tones of an expiring tradition; when even
his historical groundwork is fixed in a remote age and a foreign scene,
still the tale ought to contain every thing necessary for it to