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... ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF GOETHE , IV . SOME ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF GOETHE , V. SERMONS FROM GOETHE , VI . GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO WOMEN , SCHILLER PAGE 3 58 85 . . 109 129 148 VII . THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SCHILLER , . 177 THE GERMAN NOVEL VIII ...
... ENGLISH ESTIMATE OF GOETHE , IV . SOME ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF GOETHE , V. SERMONS FROM GOETHE , VI . GOETHE'S RELATIONS TO WOMEN , SCHILLER PAGE 3 58 85 . . 109 129 148 VII . THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SCHILLER , . 177 THE GERMAN NOVEL VIII ...
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... English writers only Carlyle seems to have had an adequate conception of Goethe's greatness , al- though he , too , was certainly at variance with the fundamental principles which underlay his hero's life and poetic activity . That he ...
... English writers only Carlyle seems to have had an adequate conception of Goethe's greatness , al- though he , too , was certainly at variance with the fundamental principles which underlay his hero's life and poetic activity . That he ...
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... English and Ameri- can critics " Faust " is but a touching and beauti- ful love - story , and the opinion is unblushingly ex- pressed by hoary wiseacres that the Second Part is a mistake of Goethe's old age , and in no wise worthy of ...
... English and Ameri- can critics " Faust " is but a touching and beauti- ful love - story , and the opinion is unblushingly ex- pressed by hoary wiseacres that the Second Part is a mistake of Goethe's old age , and in no wise worthy of ...
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... English critics that Goethe was not , according to their standard , a good man ; that he was not faithful in his relations with women , and that he was not , in the accepted sense , a patriot during his country's struggle to throw off ...
... English critics that Goethe was not , according to their standard , a good man ; that he was not faithful in his relations with women , and that he was not , in the accepted sense , a patriot during his country's struggle to throw off ...
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... English translation of " Faust , " although it is not likely that he would have made such a proposition on his own responsibility . It is a matter for congratulation that Carlyle knew the limitations of his talent too well to act upon ...
... English translation of " Faust , " although it is not likely that he would have made such a proposition on his own responsibility . It is a matter for congratulation that Carlyle knew the limitations of his talent too well to act upon ...
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