He knew from his tables and history of literature it was all right about klopstock, but he shook his majestic head over the rest in grave doubt.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
He was, with Paine, Priestley, Washington and klopstock, made a French citizen, and in 1792 was elected to the Convention by two departments.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Dittersdorf shrewdly replied by asking the emperor in his turn to draw a parallel between Gellert and klopstock; whereupon Joseph made answer by saying that both were great poets, but that klopstock's works required attentive study, while Gellert's beauties were open to the first glance.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden