text: ] The outward fates of this great critic's life may be found like every thing else in the famous "Conversations Lexicon;" but as very few readers of these remarks or students of the history of ancient and modern literature may be in a condition to refer to that most useful Cyclopaedia of literary reference we may here sketch the main lines of Schlegel's biography from the sources supplied by Mr Robertson [J] in the preface to his excellent translation of the "Lectures on the philosophy of history