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... present opportunity to familiarize himself with many phases of life which hitherto had lain beyond his horizon . Strange as it may seem to those who identify with the name of poet everything that is fantastic and irregular , he made a ...
... present opportunity to familiarize himself with many phases of life which hitherto had lain beyond his horizon . Strange as it may seem to those who identify with the name of poet everything that is fantastic and irregular , he made a ...
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... for this work , fully conscious that upon it his claim to immortality would rest . Still , it was not until 1808 that the First Part finally ap- ་ peared in its present form . In the meanwhile THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE 33.
... for this work , fully conscious that upon it his claim to immortality would rest . Still , it was not until 1808 that the First Part finally ap- ་ peared in its present form . In the meanwhile THE LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE 33.
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Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. ་ peared in its present form . In the meanwhile sev- eral works of minor consequence occupied Goethe's mind besides the romance " Wilhelm Meister , " the fundamental thought of which is kindred to that of " Faust ...
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. ་ peared in its present form . In the meanwhile sev- eral works of minor consequence occupied Goethe's mind besides the romance " Wilhelm Meister , " the fundamental thought of which is kindred to that of " Faust ...
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... present . Never- theless the scientists of to - day have recognized the value of Goethe's theory of the typical plant , and of the leaf as the typical organ of plant life , which he has fully developed in his book on " The Metamorphoses ...
... present . Never- theless the scientists of to - day have recognized the value of Goethe's theory of the typical plant , and of the leaf as the typical organ of plant life , which he has fully developed in his book on " The Metamorphoses ...
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... present day . But the fact is incontestable that Carlyle's essays contain as much of Carlyle as of Goethe . He was too gnarled and thorny a personality , too little pliable , too bris- tling with Scotch pugnacity to be a good ...
... present day . But the fact is incontestable that Carlyle's essays contain as much of Carlyle as of Goethe . He was too gnarled and thorny a personality , too little pliable , too bris- tling with Scotch pugnacity to be a good ...
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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.