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Definition of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1. Noun. German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781).
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Literary usage of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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1. An Anthology of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729-1781. The earliest writings of Lessing, consisting
of songs, anacreon- tic verses, epigrams, fables, and prose comedies, ..."
2. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1886)
"CHAPTER V. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.1 LESSING, the most brilliant son of the
German Illumination, was also the first to overstep its limits. ..."
3. The Book-lover's Enchiridion: Thoughts on the Solace and Companionship of by Alexander Ireland (1884)
"Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. 1729—1781. "Yes," said Goethe ; "Lessing himself said,
that if God would give him truth, he would decline the gift, and prefer the ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"Vols. Leipzig,-71. 2. Lessing. By James Sime. 2 Vols. London,. 3. Gotthold Ephraim
Lessing. His Life and Works. By Helen Zimmern. London,. 4. ..."
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