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... minds of both . Frederika died of consumption in 1813 . After his return to Frankfort , in 1771 , Goethe made an earnest ... mind and fash- ioned his visions of the future . In the intervals of business he paid visits to the city of ...
... minds of both . Frederika died of consumption in 1813 . After his return to Frankfort , in 1771 , Goethe made an earnest ... mind and fash- ioned his visions of the future . In the intervals of business he paid visits to the city of ...
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... minds of his con- temporaries , his earlier activity in the service of the muses . Moreover , it is not to be denied that " Götz , " with all its crudity of construction , is a warmer and more full - blooded production than any of 16 ...
... minds of his con- temporaries , his earlier activity in the service of the muses . Moreover , it is not to be denied that " Götz , " with all its crudity of construction , is a warmer and more full - blooded production than any of 16 ...
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... in point of dramatic construction , it marks an advance . It is his own faithlessness to Fred- erika which Goethe obviously has in mind and which he is endeavoring psychologically to account for . But even THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE 21.
... in point of dramatic construction , it marks an advance . It is his own faithlessness to Fred- erika which Goethe obviously has in mind and which he is endeavoring psychologically to account for . But even THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE 21.
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... mind and intellect . They travelled together , and revelled in the emotions of love and sympathy which welled forth from the souls of both . Everything that they saw filled them with ecstatic wonder , and furnished themes for ...
... mind and intellect . They travelled together , and revelled in the emotions of love and sympathy which welled forth from the souls of both . Everything that they saw filled them with ecstatic wonder , and furnished themes for ...
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... mind , capable of comprehending subtle shades of thought and feeling . Her face , as the portraits show , was full of delicacy and refinement . Her marriage was unhappy , and without any protest on the part of her husband , she sought ...
... mind , capable of comprehending subtle shades of thought and feeling . Her face , as the portraits show , was full of delicacy and refinement . Her marriage was unhappy , and without any protest on the part of her husband , she sought ...
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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.