The Auto Biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own LifeB. G. Bohn, 1848 |
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Pàgina 369 - ... the moral world, into its strength and its infirmities ; but at the same time he can thankfully acknowledge that he is an Englishman, and reckon highly the advantages which his country and his nation afford him. The family, with the delineation of which he occupies...
Pàgina 242 - I know your heart, and am right sure and certain that 'tis far too merciful to let her die, or even so much as suffer, for want of aid. Thou knowest who said, "Let him who is without sin among you cast the first stone at her!
Pàgina 505 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death and make him understand After a search so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Pàgina 240 - Thus began that tendency from which I could not deviate my whole life through ; namely, the tendency to turn into an image, into a poem, everything that delighted or troubled me, or otherwise occupied me, and to come to some certain understanding with myself upon it, that I might both rectify my conceptions of external things, and set my mind at rest about them. The faculty of doing this was necessary to no one more than to me, for my natural disposition whirled me constantly from one extreme to...
Pàgina 496 - ... must have been so present to my mind. Determined by this impulse, I began one morning to write, without having made any previous sketch or plan. I wrote the first scenes, and in the evening they were read aloud to Cornelia. She gave them much applause, but only conditionally, since she doubted that I should go on so ; nay, she even expressed a decided unbelief in my perseverance. This only incited me the more: I wrote on the next day, and also the third. Hope increased with the daily communications,...
Pàgina 351 - It was not polite, indeed, that he should have permitted himself this jest on my name ; for a man's name is not like a mantle, which merely hangs about him, and which, perchance, may be safely twitched and pulled, but is a perfectly fitting garment, which has grown over and over him like his very skin, at which one cannot scratch and scrape without wounding the man himself.
Pàgina 420 - I stood on the bottom of an old dried-up sea, among the exuvice of its ancient inhabitants. These mountains had certainly been once covered with waves, — whether before or during the Deluge did not concern me : it was enough that the valley of the Rhine had been a monstrous lake, — a bay extending beyond the reach of eyesight : out of this I was not to be talked. I thought much more of advancing in the knowledge of lands and mountains, let what would be the result.
Pàgina 433 - I found myself on the very road, to pay one more visit to Frederica, in the dress of which I had dreamed, and which I wore, not from choice, but by accident.
Pàgina 54 - If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses...
Pàgina 474 - Gesner increased the pleasure and interest in rural objects, and a little poem, which we passionately received into our circle, allowed us from henceforward to think of nothing else. Goldsmith's Deserted Village necessarily delighted every one at that grade of cultivation, in that sphere of thought. Not as living and active, but as a departed, vanished existence was described, all that one so readily looked upon, that one loved, prized, sought passionately in the present, to take part in it with...