The images were generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=N061319 The devotees of Apollo have to give a good account of themselves in Olympia before, they can become _persona grata_ on Olympus. They spend their lives, more or less, at the various games of poetry. Some, like Goethe, win in the majority of trials, and then we study all of their records regardless of their individual excellence. Some like Immermann in _Oberhof_, win only once, but this is sufficient to insure immortality. Some play and joust, run and wrestle with constancy and grace; their records, just after starting and just before …
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