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Title: Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance.

Author: Friedrich von Hardenberg

Release Date: April 3, 2010 [EBook #31873]

Language: English

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Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive

Transcriber's notes:

1. Source: Web Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/henryofterdinge00schlgoog

2. Hebrew words: krt = kaf-resh-taf = to cut;
krty = kaf-resh-taf-yod = to executioner.

3. Greek word: Krete = Kappa-rho-eta-tau-eta = Crete.

4. diphthong oe=[oe]

HENRY OF OFTERDINGEN:

A ROMANCE.

FROM THE GERMAN OF

NOVALIS,

(FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG.)

CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN.

M DCCC XLII.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1842,
BY JOHN OWEN,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE PRESS:
LYMAN THURSTON AND WILLIAM TORRY.

ADVERTISEMENT.

The present translation is made from the edition of Tieck and Schlegel.
The life of the author is chiefly drawn from the one written by the
former. The completion of the second part is also by the same writer.

Richter said, in a prophetic feeling of the fate of his own works, that
translators were like wagoners who carry good wine to fairs--but most
unaccountably water it before the end of the journey. Which allusion
and semi-confession is meant to take the place of the usual apology;
and the reader can proceed without farther preface.

_Cambridge_, _June_, 1842.

ERRATA.

Page xvi, line tenth from bottom, _for_ tion. He _read_ tion