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... Goethe's Wahrheit und Dichtung he relates how in his youth he could not bear the idea that his father was a middle - class lawyer in Frankfurt . He felt that noble blood must flow in his veins . So he sought to persuade himself that ...
... Goethe's Wahrheit und Dichtung he relates how in his youth he could not bear the idea that his father was a middle - class lawyer in Frankfurt . He felt that noble blood must flow in his veins . So he sought to persuade himself that ...
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... Goethe's Faust . I have never quite lost this feeling , and even now the first pages of a book sometimes send the blood racing through my veins . To me reading is a rest as to other people conversation or a game of cards . It is more ...
... Goethe's Faust . I have never quite lost this feeling , and even now the first pages of a book sometimes send the blood racing through my veins . To me reading is a rest as to other people conversation or a game of cards . It is more ...
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... Goethe , that great lover , himself told us how he composed verses in the arms of his beloved and with singing fingers softly tapped the beat of his hexameters on her shapely back ? The artist is ill to live with . He can be perfectly ...
... Goethe , that great lover , himself told us how he composed verses in the arms of his beloved and with singing fingers softly tapped the beat of his hexameters on her shapely back ? The artist is ill to live with . He can be perfectly ...
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