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Title: Curious questions in history, literature, art, and social life. Designed as a manual of general information
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Killikelly, Sarah H. (Sarah Hutchins), 1840-1912
Subjects: Questions and answers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Keystone
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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oncaused this and many other of the folk-lore to be lostsight of and almost forgotten. It was not until thenineteenth century that the value of it in an historicalpoint was recognized. Longfellow, in his Poets and Poetry of Europe,says, — This great romantic epic is a poem well calculated to rousethe enthusiasm of a people like the Germans. Nothing can exceedthe delight with which that old poem was studied, when, within thememory of man, the new-born nationality of German feeling roseto an unexampled pitch, and led to an excess of admiration forevery thing that belonged to German antiquity, which is, perhaps,without a parallel in modern times. The enthusiasm of the Ger-mans for this singular poem was perfectly natural. They did nothesitate to compare it with the Iliad, and some of the more extrav-agant worshippers of the Middle Ages ventured to place it evenhigher than the old Greek epic. This, however, is a claim whichthe cooler opinions of the present time reject. With all its ex-
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CURIOUS QUESTIONS, 193 traordinary merits of impersonation and description, its fiery utter-ances of passion, its elaborate arrangement and combination, itsgenuine epic sweep of incident and language, it falls far below theIliad in variety, consistency, just proportion, and completeness,and in melody of verse. The German language of the twelfth andthirteenth centuries is not to be compared with the richness, grace,and plastic beauty of the Greeks, as it flowed from the harmoniouslips of Homer. 163. THE VATICAN. The Vatican at Rome is a collection of buildingserected at various times and for different purposes,consisting of the papal residence, a library, and a muiseum. The first residence of the popes was erected by St.Symmachus (498-514). This ancient palace, havingfallen into decay during the twelfth century, was rebuiltin the thirteenth by Innocent III., and greatly enlargedby Nicholas III. (1277-1281); but the Lateran contin-ued to be the papal residence; and the Vatican palacewas

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