Goethe pourtrayed from familiar personal intercourse. By Johann Falk. Goethe considered as a man of action. By Friedrich von Müller

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Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange., 1833
 

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Seite 198 - Innern zu bewegen, Natur in Sich, Sich in Natur zu hegen, So dass was in Ihm lebt, und webt, und ist, Nie Seine Kraft, nie Seinen Geist vermisst!
Seite 28 - trick at which she takes no offence. " That is either Goethe or the devil," cried I to Wieland, who sat opposite to me at the table. " Both/' replied he; " he has the devil in him again today; and then he is like a wanton colt that flings out before and behind, and you do well not to go too near him.
Seite 27 - fantasies did he not combine that evening! Amidst them, came such noble magnificent thoughts, thrown in, detached and flitting, that the authors to whom he ascribed them must have thanked God on their knees if they had fallen upon their desks. " As soon as the joke was discovered, a universal merriment spread through the
Seite 203 - that impressed upon them all its own motion and fluctuation. Others are fastened upon by their own learning as by a withering and strangling ivy; but his hung about him as gracefully as the tendrils of a vine, and adorned him with fruit as with clusters of grapes. How magnificently, how
Seite 198 - Was war' ein Gott der nur von aussen stiesse Im Kreis das All am Finger laufen liesse ? Ihm ziemt's die Welt
Seite 273 - No where did Goethe more freely exercise the spell of his imposing person and air than among his dramatic disciples ; rigorous and earnest in his demands, unalterable in his determinations, prompt and delighted to acknowledge every successful attempt, attentive to the smallest as well as to the greatest,
Seite 94 - their fulfilment, what was it but to be wrecked in sight of port ? Let the reader but imagine the now utterly useless expenditure of crape, gauze, ribbons, lace, beads, flowers which the fair creatures had made; not to mention the pasteboard for the bell, the canvas, colours
Seite 181 - Self-contradiction is the only wrong; For by the laws of spirit, in the right Is every individual character That acts in strict consistence with itself.
Seite 202 - might have translated it, before the secular eye : but the vulgar theologic sense of the word in English would have led to a misinterpretation of the meaning. No other equivalent term occurs to me, except Aeonian; and that is too uncommon to be generally intelligible.
Seite 200 - a whole cluster and fasciculus of stars, out of which it is for every one to compose at pleasure a constellation shaped after his own preconception. Monodynamic men, men of a single talent, are rarely misapprehended; men of multitudinous powers almost always. If he was no poet—as he would himself often protest, measuring his own pretensions by the Homeric and

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