The German Language, in the Prose of Lessing

Even Gertr's prose is no exception, as a reflection of the good old time to which it belongs. Lessing loved also free-spiratism in the tempo and flight out of Germany. But how could the German language imitate the tempo of Machiavelli? How could even Plato have endured life without an Aristophanes? Whoever attempts it proves that he is probably not only strong, but also daring beyond measure.