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Zimmerman : Einsamkert

To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I have got your friend Kliest, which I think delightful; Hallen's poems; and Zimmerman's "Einsamkert", which pleases me more that [sic] almost any book I ever read... There are some ideas in Zimmerman's upon a future state very like your book [Essay on the happiness of the life to come].'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith      Print: Book

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement

'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1798].'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement

'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very instructive; I have not finishe'd it but it was time to return it.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

Johann Georg Zimmermann : Solitude

'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

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