Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which all thoughtful men of a certain age were languishing: it paints the misery, it passionately utters the complaint; and heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. The Prolongation of life - Page 263by Elie Metchnikoff - 1908 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Early English newspapers - 1828 - 758 pages
...Spiritual Quixote, from a French translation. REV. RBYIIW. — Foreign Review, No. III. 430 " Wetter a but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...passionately utters the complaint ; and heart and vuice all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Wcrter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werter is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...passionately utters the complaint; and heart and voice, all aver Europe, loudly and at once respond to it. True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 470 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werther is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain under which...heart and voice all over Europe loudly and at once respond to it. True it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 456 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werther is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain under which...heart and voice all over Europe loudly and at once respond to it. True it prescribes no remedy; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise, to... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 482 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name; and so made himself the spokesman of his generation. Werther is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain under which...heart and voice all over Europe loudly and at once respond to it. True it' prescribes no remedy; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...gave it a local habitation and a name ; and so made himself the spokesman of bis generation. Wertcr is but the cry of that dim, rooted pain, under which...heart and voice, all over Europe, loudly and at once respond to it True, it prescribes no remedy ; for that was a far different, far harder enterprise,... | |
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