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... existence . In this lesson there is deliverance to him who properly estimates and apprehends it . Thus barrenly stated it sounds commonplace enough to us of the nineteenth cen- tury ; but it is largely due to Goethe's influence . that ...
... existence . In this lesson there is deliverance to him who properly estimates and apprehends it . Thus barrenly stated it sounds commonplace enough to us of the nineteenth cen- tury ; but it is largely due to Goethe's influence . that ...
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... existence , is not to be won- dered at . At the same time the apparent indiffer- ence of Goethe was not as serious a reflection upon his character as his friends then assumed . He was essentially a child of the eighteenth century , and ...
... existence , is not to be won- dered at . At the same time the apparent indiffer- ence of Goethe was not as serious a reflection upon his character as his friends then assumed . He was essentially a child of the eighteenth century , and ...
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... existence , to hear from time to time a little human speech . " Under such circumstances the frequent letters and messages from Goethe must have been doubly grate- ful . In recalling , forty years later , the joy he ex- perienced at the ...
... existence , to hear from time to time a little human speech . " Under such circumstances the frequent letters and messages from Goethe must have been doubly grate- ful . In recalling , forty years later , the joy he ex- perienced at the ...
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... existence the world swarms with creatures , so that war , pestilence , flood , and fire can make no im- pression upon it . That is my God . " " Now , a man may well be a great connoisseur in human affairs , as it is perfectly ...
... existence the world swarms with creatures , so that war , pestilence , flood , and fire can make no im- pression upon it . That is my God . " " Now , a man may well be a great connoisseur in human affairs , as it is perfectly ...
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... his systematic ignoring of the darker and harsher phases of existence - his lack of experience and temperamental avoidance of what , to the great majority of mankind , must remain the sternest , deepest GOETHE AND CARLYLE 79.
... his systematic ignoring of the darker and harsher phases of existence - his lack of experience and temperamental avoidance of what , to the great majority of mankind , must remain the sternest , deepest GOETHE AND CARLYLE 79.
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Page 137 - But delay was best, For their end was a crime." — Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a .test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view!
Page 78 - Undoubtedly we have,' replied the Eldest. ' Of this we make no secret ; but we draw a veil over those sufferings, even because we reverence them so highly. We hold it a damnable audacity to bring forth that torturing Cross, and the Holy One who suffers on it, or to expose them to the light of the Sun, which hid its face when a reckless world forced such a sight on it ; to take these mysterious secrets, in which the divine depth of Sorrow lies hid, and play with them, fondle them, trick them out,...
Page 51 - How could I take up arms without hatred, and how could I hate without youth? If such an emergency had befallen me when twenty years old, I should certainly not have been the last; but it found me as one who had already passed the first sixties.
Page 53 - I soon shall ready be To pierce the ether's high, unknown dominions, To reach new spheres of pure activity ! This godlike rapture, this supreme existence, Do I, but now a worm, deserve to track ? Yes, resolute to reach some brighter distance, On Earth's fair sun I turn my...
Page 78 - Permit me one question," said Wilhelm : " as you have set up the life of this divine Man for a pattern and example, have you likewise selected his sufferings, his death, as a model of exalted patience ?" " Undoubtedly we have,
Page 118 - PEACE breathes along the shade Of every hill, The tree-tops of the glade Are hushed and still ; All woodland murmurs cease, The birds to rest within the brake are gone.