Excerpt from Tanagra: An Idyl of Greece In 1837 the condition Of his health compelled him to travel southward. He visited Italy, where he, with great enthusiasm, devoted him self to the study of art. After his return he was appointed assistant to an Evangelical pastor at Cologne, where the originality and rhetorical beauty of his sermons attracted great attention. At the same time he continued his lectures at the Bonn University, where his frequent intercourse with some of the distin guished German poets of the period stimulated him to poetical production. It was also at this time that he made the acquaintance Of Johanna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.