The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries, Volume 1Ticknor and Fields, 1856 - 593 pages |
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... dear little mother my happy disposition , and love of story - telling . My ancestor was a " ladies ' man , " and that haunts me now and then ; my ancestress loved finery and show , which also runs in the blood . If , then , the elements ...
... dear little mother my happy disposition , and love of story - telling . My ancestor was a " ladies ' man , " and that haunts me now and then ; my ancestress loved finery and show , which also runs in the blood . If , then , the elements ...
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... were finished , away the children hurried to her room , to play . The dear old lady , proud as a grandmother , ' spoiled ' them of course , and gave 6 them many an eatable , which they would get 22 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
... were finished , away the children hurried to her room , to play . The dear old lady , proud as a grandmother , ' spoiled ' them of course , and gave 6 them many an eatable , which they would get 22 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
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... Dear Riese , this solitude has awakened a certain sadness in my soul : It is my only pleasure , Away from all the world , To lie beside the streamlet , And think of those I love . - But contented as I am , I still feel the want of old ...
... Dear Riese , this solitude has awakened a certain sadness in my soul : It is my only pleasure , Away from all the world , To lie beside the streamlet , And think of those I love . - But contented as I am , I still feel the want of old ...
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... Dear friend , from those you have been wont to hear . You know how seriously I wooed the Muse ; With what a hate I scorned those whom the Law And not the Muses beckoned . And you know How fondly I ( alas ! most falsely ) hoped The Muses ...
... Dear friend , from those you have been wont to hear . You know how seriously I wooed the Muse ; With what a hate I scorned those whom the Law And not the Muses beckoned . And you know How fondly I ( alas ! most falsely ) hoped The Muses ...
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... Dear friend ! How glad should I be if Goethe were still what he was in Frankfurt ! Good friends as we were formerly , we can now scarcely endure each other for a quarter of an hour . Yet with time I still hope to convert him , though it ...
... Dear friend ! How glad should I be if Goethe were still what he was in Frankfurt ! Good friends as we were formerly , we can now scarcely endure each other for a quarter of an hour . Yet with time I still hope to convert him , though it ...
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Page 237 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man?
Page 297 - 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; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free ; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.
Page 7 - VOM Vater hab ich die Statur, Des Lebens ernstes Führen, Vom Mütterchen die Frohnatur Und Lust zu fabulieren. Urahnherr war der 'Schönsten hold, Das spukt so hin und wieder; Urahnfrau liebte Schmuck und Gold, Das zuckt wohl durch die Glieder. Sind nun die Elemente nicht Aus dem Komplex zu trennen, Was ist denn an dem ganzen Wicht Original zu nennen?
Page 139 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 292 - Overwhelmed by the sentence, he is some time before he recovers himself ; he then finds that every one has gone to the place of execution, and that the streets of Jerusalem are empty. Unrest and yearnings drive him forth, and his wanderings begin." This legendary conception he never executed. It lived within him for a long while, and during his travels in...
Page 30 - Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance.
Page 293 - ... happy by those we love, but in the end man is always driven back upon himself, and it seems as if the Divinity had taken a position...
Page 405 - ... doubtless was fully aware of the small account in which he was held by Frederick, whose admiration lay in quite other directions. What culture the King had was French, and his opinion of German literature had been very explicitly pronounced in a work published this year, in which Gotz von Berlichingen was cited as a sample of the reigning bad taste.
Page 204 - Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this piece, which is very grand ; he tells us the idea arose within him of illustrating the sad fact, noticeable in the biographies of genius, that...
Page 226 - That nameless Unrest, the blind struggle of a soul in bondage, that high, sad, longing Discontent, which was agitating every bosom, had driven Goethe almost to despair. All felt it; he alone could give it voice.