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  • It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind.

    James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.88