The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries, 1. köideTicknor and Fields, 1856 - 593 pages |
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... gave us glimpses of that distant world . The book has been of service to me in more than one chapter of this biography . The reader is advised to get it at once , together with Mr. Oxenford's translation of Ecker- mann's Conversations ...
... gave us glimpses of that distant world . The book has been of service to me in more than one chapter of this biography . The reader is advised to get it at once , together with Mr. Oxenford's translation of Ecker- mann's Conversations ...
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... gave him his daughter , on his admission to the citizenship of Frankfurt and to the guild of tailors . This was in 1687. Several children were born , and vanished ; in 1700 his wife , too , vanished , to be replaced , * From my father I ...
... gave him his daughter , on his admission to the citizenship of Frankfurt and to the guild of tailors . This was in 1687. Several children were born , and vanished ; in 1700 his wife , too , vanished , to be replaced , * From my father I ...
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... gave birth to the man whose influence has been greater than that of any man since Luther . A momen- tous month in very momentous times . It is the middle of the eighteenth century : a period when the movement carried out by Luther was ...
... gave birth to the man whose influence has been greater than that of any man since Luther . A momen- tous month in very momentous times . It is the middle of the eighteenth century : a period when the movement carried out by Luther was ...
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... , fire , earth and water I represented under the forms of princesses ; and to all natural phenomena I gave a meaning , in which I almost believed more fervently than my little hearers . 1753. ] 21 THE PRECOCIOUS CHILD .
... , fire , earth and water I represented under the forms of princesses ; and to all natural phenomena I gave a meaning , in which I almost believed more fervently than my little hearers . 1753. ] 21 THE PRECOCIOUS CHILD .
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... finished , away the children hurried to her room , to play . The dear old lady , proud as a grandmother , spoiled ' them of course , and gave · them many an eatable , which they would get 22 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
... finished , away the children hurried to her room , to play . The dear old lady , proud as a grandmother , spoiled ' them of course , and gave · them many an eatable , which they would get 22 [ BOOK I. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE .
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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...