The Life of Goethe, Volumes 1-2F. A. Brockhaus, 1864 |
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... present edition is altered in form and in sub- stance . It has been rewritten in parts , with a view not only of ... presents great difficulties to a biographer . The main reason of this is the abiding inaccuracy of tone , which , far ...
... present edition is altered in form and in sub- stance . It has been rewritten in parts , with a view not only of ... presents great difficulties to a biographer . The main reason of this is the abiding inaccuracy of tone , which , far ...
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... present him as the exemplar of all greatness . No man can be such an exemplar . Humanity reveals itself in fragments . One man is the exponent of one kind of excellence , another of another . Achilles wins the victory , and Homer ...
... present him as the exemplar of all greatness . No man can be such an exemplar . Humanity reveals itself in fragments . One man is the exponent of one kind of excellence , another of another . Achilles wins the victory , and Homer ...
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... present generation dubbed the stiff coat of their grand- fathers , with its square skirts and collars , by the name of magister matheseos , the name by which the Pythagorean proposition is known . in Germany . 2 Ephemeriden der ...
... present generation dubbed the stiff coat of their grand- fathers , with its square skirts and collars , by the name of magister matheseos , the name by which the Pythagorean proposition is known . in Germany . 2 Ephemeriden der ...
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... , and the Jews ' quarter , so picturesque , so filthy , and so strikingly significant . But if Frankfurt was thus representative of the past , it was equally representative of the present 14 LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
... , and the Jews ' quarter , so picturesque , so filthy , and so strikingly significant . But if Frankfurt was thus representative of the past , it was equally representative of the present 14 LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
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... present day : the storks , perched upon its ancient gables , look down upon the varied bustle of fairs held by modern Commerce in the ancient streets . The feeling for antiquity , and especially for old German life , which his native ...
... present day : the storks , perched upon its ancient gables , look down upon the varied bustle of fairs held by modern Commerce in the ancient streets . The feeling for antiquity , and especially for old German life , which his native ...
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acquaintance admiration Amalia artist beauty Berlichingen called character charming Clavigo Clavijo colour confess Corona Schröter court criticism dear delight drama Duchess Duke Egmont Euripides expression eyes father Faust feel felt Frankfurt Frau von Stein Frederika French friendship genius German give Goethe Goethe's Götz Götz von Berlichingen Greek hand happy heart Herder honour idea Iphigenia Italy Jena Jerusalem Karl August Kestner Klettenberg Klopstock Lavater letter literature live Lotte marriage Mephisto Merck mind moral nature never noble once pain passion philosophic play poem poet poetic poetry prince Pylades reader says scene Schiller seems seen sentimental Shakspeare soul speak Spinoza spirit story Strasburg Sturm und Drang tell theatre thee things thou thought Tiefurt translation truth Weimar Weislingen Werther Wetzlar whole Wieland wife word writes written wrote young youth
Popular passages
Page 308 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 92 - Geheimnisvoll am lichten Tag, Läßt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben.
Page 199 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Page 231 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 58 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 233 - How am I glutted with conceit of this ! Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please ? Resolve me of all ambiguities ? Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, i Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.
Page 47 - Willst du genau erfahren was sich ziemt, So frage nur bei edlen Frauen an.
Page 285 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them ; thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.
Page 231 - The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by naturai piety.' [THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.
Page 327 - With a five-and-twenty years' experience since those happy days of which I write, and an acquaintance with an immense variety of human kind, I think I have never seen a society more simple, charitable, courteous, gentlemanlike than that of the dear little Saxon city, where the good Schiller and the great Goethe lived and lie buried.