The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries, 1. köideTicknor and Fields, 1856 - 593 pages |
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... believe a great genius can belong to a small mind . Nor is it in virtue of genius alone that he deserves the name . Merck said of him , that what he lived was more beautiful than what he wrote ; and his Life , amid all its weaknesses ...
... believe a great genius can belong to a small mind . Nor is it in virtue of genius alone that he deserves the name . Merck said of him , that what he lived was more beautiful than what he wrote ; and his Life , amid all its weaknesses ...
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... believe The Gods descended to me , and no Master Produced more perfect works than mine ! No sooner came I here , than from my eyes Fell off the scales , as I first learned to prize Fame , and the mighty efforts fame required . Then ...
... believe The Gods descended to me , and no Master Produced more perfect works than mine ! No sooner came I here , than from my eyes Fell off the scales , as I first learned to prize Fame , and the mighty efforts fame required . Then ...
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... friends . If I may believe my dream we shall see each other again , but I hope not so very quickly , and for my part I shall try to defer its fulfilment ; if , indeed , a man 88 [ Book II . LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
... friends . If I may believe my dream we shall see each other again , but I hope not so very quickly , and for my part I shall try to defer its fulfilment ; if , indeed , a man 88 [ Book II . LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
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... believe you do . Will you write to me to Strasburg also ? You will play me no trick . For , Käthchen Schönkopf , now I know perfectly that a letter from you is as dear to me as from any hand in the world . You were always a sweet girl ...
... believe you do . Will you write to me to Strasburg also ? You will play me no trick . For , Käthchen Schönkopf , now I know perfectly that a letter from you is as dear to me as from any hand in the world . You were always a sweet girl ...
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... believe I influenced him in more ways than one to his advantage . ' His own colossal conceit may have stood between Goethe and himself ; or he may have been too conscious of his young friend's defects to think much of his genius . Her ...
... believe I influenced him in more ways than one to his advantage . ' His own colossal conceit may have stood between Goethe and himself ; or he may have been too conscious of his young friend's defects to think much of his genius . Her ...
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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...