The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries, from Published and Unpublished Sources, المجلد 2Ticknor and Fields, 1856 |
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... truth that only by its own fall- ings - off can genius properly be taught ? And is not our very walk , as Goethe says , a series of falls ? ---- ' Men of genius , ' says F. von Müller , are prone to wander beyond the boundaries of ...
... truth that only by its own fall- ings - off can genius properly be taught ? And is not our very walk , as Goethe says , a series of falls ? ---- ' Men of genius , ' says F. von Müller , are prone to wander beyond the boundaries of ...
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... truth , verse is not more unnatural than song . Song is to speech what poetry is to prose ; it expresses a different mental condition from that expressed by speech . Impas- sioned prose approaches poetry in the rhythmical impulse of its ...
... truth , verse is not more unnatural than song . Song is to speech what poetry is to prose ; it expresses a different mental condition from that expressed by speech . Impas- sioned prose approaches poetry in the rhythmical impulse of its ...
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... truth ; it comforts not , But is a torment to the forger's heart , And , like an arrow which a god directs , * Comp . Euripides , v . 1157 , sq . Iphigenia pretends that as the image of the goddess has been stained by the impure hands ...
... truth ; it comforts not , But is a torment to the forger's heart , And , like an arrow which a god directs , * Comp . Euripides , v . 1157 , sq . Iphigenia pretends that as the image of the goddess has been stained by the impure hands ...
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... truth , this Kammerpräsident is very much oppressed with work . and lives in great seclusion , happy in love , active in study . The official duties which formerly he undertook so gaily , are obviously becoming burdens to him , the more ...
... truth , this Kammerpräsident is very much oppressed with work . and lives in great seclusion , happy in love , active in study . The official duties which formerly he undertook so gaily , are obviously becoming burdens to him , the more ...
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... truth . ' To help him in his spelling he begins algebra ; but the nature of his mind was too unmathematical for him to pursue that study long . Science and Love were the two pillars of his existence in these days . I feel that thou art ...
... truth . ' To help him in his spelling he begins algebra ; but the nature of his mind was too unmathematical for him to pursue that study long . Science and Love were the two pillars of his existence in these days . I feel that thou art ...
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الصفحة 396 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
الصفحة 329 - Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul! see where it flies; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heav'n is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
الصفحة 325 - For, when we hear one rack the name of God, Abjure the Scriptures and his Saviour Christ, We fly, in hope, to get his glorious soul ; Nor will we come, unless he use such means Whereby he is in danger to be damn'd.
الصفحة 134 - Geheimnisvoll am lichten Tag, Läßt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben.
الصفحة 396 - He fought his doubts and gathered strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them ; thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own.
الصفحة 449 - After three-and-twenty years' absence I passed a couple of summer days in the well-remembered place, and was fortunate enough to find some of the friends of my youth. Madame de Goethe was there, and received me and my daughters with the kindness of old days. We drank tea in the open air at the famous cottage in the Park,f which still belongs to the family, and had been so often inhabited by her illustrious father.
الصفحة 102 - Willst du genau erfahren was sich ziemt, So frage nur bei edlen Frauen an.
الصفحة 328 - So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me ; To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will. Go and return to mighty Lucifer, And meet me in my study at midnight, And then resolve* me of thy master's mind.
الصفحة 205 - ... after him. The German, despising the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic matter-of-factness of the Englishman, retires to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel from out of the depths of his Moral Consciousness.
الصفحة 329 - Helen for a kiss. —Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...