The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries, 1. köideTicknor and Fields, 1856 - 593 pages |
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... , we may say , became morally great , by being in his own age what in some other ages many might have been , a genuine man . His grand ex- cellency was this , that he was genuine . As 4 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
... , we may say , became morally great , by being in his own age what in some other ages many might have been , a genuine man . His grand ex- cellency was this , that he was genuine . As 4 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
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... became a tailor . Having passed an apprenticeship , ( not precisely that of Wilhelm Meister , ) he commenced his Wanderings , in the course of which he reached Frankfurt . Here he soon found employment , and being , as we learn , a ...
... became a tailor . Having passed an apprenticeship , ( not precisely that of Wilhelm Meister , ) he commenced his Wanderings , in the course of which he reached Frankfurt . Here he soon found employment , and being , as we learn , a ...
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... became an imperial councillor in Frank- furt , and married , in 1748 , Katharina Elizabeth , daughter of Johann Wolfgang Textor , the chief - magistrate ( Schul- theiss ) . The genealogical tables of kings and conquerors are thought of ...
... became an imperial councillor in Frank- furt , and married , in 1748 , Katharina Elizabeth , daughter of Johann Wolfgang Textor , the chief - magistrate ( Schul- theiss ) . The genealogical tables of kings and conquerors are thought of ...
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... became stiffness , and was construed into diplomacy or haughti- ness ; from him also came that orderliness and stoicism which have so much distressed those who cannot conceive genius otherwise than as vagabond in its habits . The lust ...
... became stiffness , and was construed into diplomacy or haughti- ness ; from him also came that orderliness and stoicism which have so much distressed those who cannot conceive genius otherwise than as vagabond in its habits . The lust ...
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... became early the favorite of several eminent painters , was constantly in their ateliers , playing with them , and making them explain their works to him . He was , more- over , a frequent visitor at picture . sales and galleries , till ...
... became early the favorite of several eminent painters , was constantly in their ateliers , playing with them , and making them explain their works to him . He was , more- over , a frequent visitor at picture . sales and galleries , till ...
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Page 299 - 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 67 - Lucili ritu, nostrum melioris utroque. ,o ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim credebat libris, neque si male cesserat usquam decurrens alio, neque si bene: quo fit, ut omnis votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella vita senis.
Page 192 - 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 299 - To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or 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 128 - For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute ; No more.
Page 7 - 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 230 - Numquamne legisti, Gaditanum quendam Titi Livi nomine gloriaque commotum ad visendum eum ab ultimo terrarum orbe venisse, statimque ut viderat abisse ? 'A<j>iXoKaXov inlitteratum iners ac paene etiam turpe est, non putare tanti cognitionem qua nulla est iucundior, nulla pulchrior, nulla denique humanior. Dices: 9 " Habeo hie quos legam non minus disertos.
Page 60 - The English student, clerk, or bachelor, who dines at an eating-house, chop-house, or hotel, goes there simply to get his dinner, and perhaps look at the Times.
Page 409 - This is not because the Hero is no Hero, but because the Valet is a Valet...