Note 748 — Chapter III · GOETHE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
Reading edition
No doubt there are exceptions. Goethe’s best seem to me 278 (directed, it is said, at F. Schlegel) and the rather ill-natured but clever Charade (282). Schiller was happy in 346 on Gottsched as Tantalus: but any one could, and can, shoot Gottsched sitting.