Tales By Musaeus, Tieck, Richter Vol I

Translated From The Germanfor Classical Instruction, He Was Early Sent To The Public School Of Konigsberg, But Till His Thirteenth Or Fourteenth Year, He Acquired No Taste For These Pursuits, And Remained Unnoticed By His Teacher, And By All His Schoolfellows, Except Hippel, Rather Disrespected And DislikedMusic And Paint Ing, In Which Also He Had Masters, Were More To His Taste: In AShort While, He Could Fantasy To Admiration On The Harpsi Chord, And There Was No Comic Visage In Konigsberg Which He Had Not Sketched In CaricatureHis Tiny Stature for In Youth, As In Manhood, He Was Little, And 'incredibly Brisk' Giving Him An Almost Infantile Appearance, Added New Wonder To These Attainments, And So Young Ernst Became AMusical And Pictorial Prodigy, To The No Small Comfort Of Justizrath Otto, Who Delighted To Observe That The Little Imp Who Had Played Him So Many Sorry Tricks, And So Often Overset The Steady Machinery Of His Household Economy, Was Turning Out Not ABlackguard, But AGenius