burger

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His early poems are echoes of Klopstock, Matthisson, Hölty, Bürger, and other predecessors; but especially of Schiller, whose moral seriousness and sonorous language alike inspired the serious and rhetorically gifted youth.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various

While still at Weimar Schiller received a visit from Bürger, and the two agreed to vie with each other in a translation from Vergil.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

Gustave Vanzype asks: What has become of the young woman weighing gold, which reappeared at a sale in the year 1701, which Bürger thought he had found in the canvas, The Weigher of Gold.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James

He beguiled these incommunicative periods by studying German, in Tieck and Bürger, without apparently making much progress; also in reading French, in Voltaire and Rabelais.

From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by James, Henry

He disliked Goethe, and he quoted with approval the saying of the poet Klopstock, whom he met at Hamburg, that he placed the romanticist Bürger above both Goethe and Schiller.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)