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Must we then be beautiful? Perhaps it was necessary that we should think ourselves so.
—Minna von Barnhelm. Act. II. Scene VII.
Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
 
1729–81, German philosopher, dramatist, and critic, one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment.… Lessing differentiated between the poet as interpreter of time and the artist as interpreter of space; he found different aesthetic criteria applicable to each.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  ls´ng from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Minna von Barnhelm; Or, The Soldier’s Fortune
Lessing’s great national drama. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXVI, Part 5.
 
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