The Life of Goethe, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1864 - 575 pages |
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... Merck . - The Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen . - Goethe's fondness for skating 96 CHAPTER II . GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN . Three versions of " Götz " .- Goethe's own account of the composition . - Character of Gottfried with the Iron Hand ...
... Merck . - The Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen . - Goethe's fondness for skating 96 CHAPTER II . GÖTZ VON BERLICHINGEN . Three versions of " Götz " .- Goethe's own account of the composition . - Character of Gottfried with the Iron Hand ...
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... Merck's reproach . - Goethe's acquaintance with Klopstock and Lava- ter . Character of Lavater . - Sentimentalism of the epoch . - Probable parent- age of Goethe's religious opinions . — Faith and knowledge . — Acquaintance with Basedow ...
... Merck's reproach . - Goethe's acquaintance with Klopstock and Lava- ter . Character of Lavater . - Sentimentalism of the epoch . - Probable parent- age of Goethe's religious opinions . — Faith and knowledge . — Acquaintance with Basedow ...
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... Merck said of him that what he lived was more beautiful than what ho wrote ; and his Life , amid all its weaknesses and all its errors , presents a picture of a certain grandeur of soul , which cannot be contemplated unmoved . I shall ...
... Merck said of him that what he lived was more beautiful than what ho wrote ; and his Life , amid all its weaknesses and all its errors , presents a picture of a certain grandeur of soul , which cannot be contemplated unmoved . I shall ...
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... Merck , Burger , Madame de Stael , Karl August , and other great people sought her acquaintance . The Duchess Amalia corresponded with her as with an intimate friend ; and her letters were welcomed eagerly at the Weimar Court . She was ...
... Merck , Burger , Madame de Stael , Karl August , and other great people sought her acquaintance . The Duchess Amalia corresponded with her as with an intimate friend ; and her letters were welcomed eagerly at the Weimar Court . She was ...
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... Merck ; his influence not so great , but somewhat of the same kind . The friends were displeased to see young Goethe falling thus away from good society into such a disreputable course ; but just as Lessing before him had neglected the ...
... Merck ; his influence not so great , but somewhat of the same kind . The friends were displeased to see young Goethe falling thus away from good society into such a disreputable course ; but just as Lessing before him had neglected the ...
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Page 462 - 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 512 - He fought his doubts and gather'd 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 533 - 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 464 - 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, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...
Page 146 - Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which all thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing : it paints the misery, it passionately utters the complaint; and heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it.
Page 550 - 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.
Page 121 - Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature ! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, cornfield, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Page 549 - Of course I remember very well the perturbation of spirit with which, as a lad of nineteen, I received the long expected intimation that the Herr Geheimrath would see me on such a morning.
Page 303 - 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 411 - Zur Nation euch zu bilden, ihr hoffet es, Deutsche, vergebens ; Bildet, ihr könnt es, dafür freier zu Menschen euch aus.