The Italians!--wonderful men have sprung up in Italy.
Italy is not merely famous for painters, poets, musicians, singers, and linguists--the greatest linguist the world ever saw, the late Cardinal Mezzofanti, was an Italian; but it is celebrated for men--men emphatically speaking: Columbus was an Italian, Alexander Farnese was an Italian, so was the mightiest of the mighty, Napoleon Bonaparte;--but the German language, German literature, and the Germans! The writer has already stated his opinion with respect to German; he does not speak from ignorance or prejudice; he has heard German spoken, and many other languages.

German literature! he does not speak from ignorance; he has read that and many a literature, and he repeats.

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however, he acknowledges that there is one fine poem in the German language, that poem is the "Oberon"; a poem, by-the-bye, ignored by the Germans--a speaking fact--and of course by the Anglo-Germanists.