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" 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. "
Essays on German Literature - Page 51
by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1892 - 359 pages
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Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret, Volume 2

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - Authors, German - 1850 - 454 pages
...does not know what it wants, and which one must allow to have its own way. 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...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...alluded to the reproaches against him for not having written war songs, " 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 past sixty. Besides we...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...which knows not what it wants, and which one must allow to have its own way. 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...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...which knows not what it wants, and which one must allow to have its own way. 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...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...alluded to the reproaches against him for not having written war songs, ' 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 past sixty. Besides we...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...alluded to the reproaches against him for not having written war songs, ' How could I take up arms without hatred, and how could I hate without youth ? If such an emergency had befallen me whe*h twenty years old, I should certainly not have been the last : but it found me past sixty. Besides...
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The Life of Goethe, Volumes 1-2

George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 678 pages
...who alluded to the reproaches against him for not having written war songs, '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 past sixty. Besides, we...
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The Life of Goethe, Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 368 pages
...to. the reproaches against him for not having written war songs, 'How could I take up arms wdthout 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 past sixty. Besides, we...
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A Poet Hero

Marie Bothmer (Gräfin von), Mary gräfin von Bothmer - 1870 - 428 pages
...longer at the age of enthusiasm. " How could I take up arms without hatred ? " he said to Ackermann, " 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 past sixty. To write...
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The Story of Goethe's Life

George Henry Lewes - Authors, German - 1872 - 430 pages
...alluded to the reproaches against him for not having written war-songs, " 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 past sixty. Besides,...
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