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... hero's life and poetic activity . That he unconsciously dis- torted the meaning of " Faust " is very obvious to any student of Goethe who reads his essay on " Helena . " It was the direct purpose of Goethe to be the intellectual ...
... hero's life and poetic activity . That he unconsciously dis- torted the meaning of " Faust " is very obvious to any student of Goethe who reads his essay on " Helena . " It was the direct purpose of Goethe to be the intellectual ...
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... heroes of the ancient world . He associated chiefly with the artists Tischbein , Meyer , Philip Hackert , and Angelica Kaufmann , and revelled in art talk and criticism . He took up again the study of Homer , and began to meditate upon ...
... heroes of the ancient world . He associated chiefly with the artists Tischbein , Meyer , Philip Hackert , and Angelica Kaufmann , and revelled in art talk and criticism . He took up again the study of Homer , and began to meditate upon ...
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... hero to his destruction . No poet , however great , can emancipate himself from these laws , if he wishes to produce a successful tragedy . As a mere literary production , " Egmont " is fully worthy of the author of " Götz " and ...
... hero to his destruction . No poet , however great , can emancipate himself from these laws , if he wishes to produce a successful tragedy . As a mere literary production , " Egmont " is fully worthy of the author of " Götz " and ...
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... hero's life and the lessons which were to be derived from it . When Bayard Taylor called upon him , a few years before his death , and asked him his opinion of Goethe , he answered with his most rasping Scotch accent : " That man was my ...
... hero's life and the lessons which were to be derived from it . When Bayard Taylor called upon him , a few years before his death , and asked him his opinion of Goethe , he answered with his most rasping Scotch accent : " That man was my ...
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... hero ? Their recently published correspondence , which was expected to furnish a clew to their relations , deals largely with externalities , ex- changes of gifts and small courtesies , and comments on books and authors . Goethe ...
... hero ? Their recently published correspondence , which was expected to furnish a clew to their relations , deals largely with externalities , ex- changes of gifts and small courtesies , and comments on books and authors . Goethe ...
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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.