Excerpt from Lessing's Emilia Galotti: With Footnotes and VocabularyIN Gotthold Ephraim Lessing we have to consider one who prepared the way for modern German writers; one who broke the bonds of the old, formal style, and who did away with the influence of the French on German literature; one who first showed to the people of his native land the beauty and the strength of English litera ture, and who finally wrought in them the demand for a literature distinctively their own.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.