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... took his part in his occasional rebellion against the paternal authority . In the invention of stories she was an expert ; her serials ran from evening to evening , and were con- tinued ad libitum . Goethe and his sister Cornelia would ...
... took his part in his occasional rebellion against the paternal authority . In the invention of stories she was an expert ; her serials ran from evening to evening , and were con- tinued ad libitum . Goethe and his sister Cornelia would ...
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... took a deep interest in his education . He corrected and criticised his drawings , directed his studies , watched his progress , and expressed his displeasure when the boy failed to come up to his expectation . Fortunate is the boy who ...
... took a deep interest in his education . He corrected and criticised his drawings , directed his studies , watched his progress , and expressed his displeasure when the boy failed to come up to his expectation . Fortunate is the boy who ...
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... took delight in relating marvel- lous tales , which he himself invented , to a company of admiring friends . The two fairy tales , " The New Paris " and " The New Melusine , " which he re- printed in a somewhat improved shape in his ...
... took delight in relating marvel- lous tales , which he himself invented , to a company of admiring friends . The two fairy tales , " The New Paris " and " The New Melusine , " which he re- printed in a somewhat improved shape in his ...
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... took his dinners , may have tended to distract his attention . Loving your land- lord's daughter is as a rule antagonistic both to law and logic . A serious illness further interfered with his studies , and in 1768 , after three years ...
... took his dinners , may have tended to distract his attention . Loving your land- lord's daughter is as a rule antagonistic both to law and logic . A serious illness further interfered with his studies , and in 1768 , after three years ...
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... took place in May , 1774. Among the first acquaintances which he made in this city were a young jurist named Kestner and his fiancée , Charlotte Buff . Kestner and Goethe became good friends , in spite of differences of temperament and ...
... took place in May , 1774. Among the first acquaintances which he made in this city were a young jurist named Kestner and his fiancée , Charlotte Buff . Kestner and Goethe became good friends , in spite of differences of temperament and ...
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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.