human
in him. It was the noisy ones that he could not abide; and, writing to Gleim about his
gpt
Grenadier verses, he advises him to soften the tone of them a little, he himself being a
human
which he would leave altogether to the clergy. We think Herr Stahr makes too much of these anti-patriot flings of Lessing, which, with a single exception, occur in his letters to Gleim, and with reference to a kind of verse that could not but be distasteful to him, as needing no more brains than a drum, nor other inspiration than serves a trumpet. Lessing undoubtedly had better uses for his breath than to spend it in shouting for either side in this