text: ] Some people from pride don't like to be praised at all; and all sensible people from propriety don't like to be praised extravagantly: whether from pride or from propriety or from a mixture of both philosopher Fichte seemed to have held in very small account the patronage with which he was favoured at the hands of the twin aesthetical dictators the Castor and Pollux of romantic criticism; and strange enough also poet Goethe who had worship enough in his day and is said to have been somewhat fond of the homage chimes in to the same tune thus: "the Schlegels with all their fine natural gifts have been unhappy men their life long both the one and the other; they wished both to be and do something more than nature had given them capacity for; and accordingly they have been the means of bringing about not a little harm both in art and literature