 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1903 - 448 lehte
...very properly, restores to the year 1773, as Boie's " Annual " for 1774 contains " Mahomet's Song." Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this...biographies of genius, that every man who attempts to realise a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, and must place himself on its level in... | |
 | Will Seymour Monroe - 1907 - 470 lehte
...his English biographer, that he had hoped to write a drama upon Mohammed to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims, and at... | |
 | 1869 - 960 lehte
...nor are horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
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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 every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact... 
