Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysA. Hart, late Carey & Hart, 1852 - 568 pages |
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... GOETHE'S HELENA GOETHE BURNS Foreign Review . - No . II . 1828 . Foreign Review . - No . III . 1828 . Edinburgh Review . - No . XCVI . 1828 . THE LIFE OF HEYNE Foreign Review . - No . IV . 1828 . GERMAN PLAYWRIGHTS VOLTAIRE Foreign ...
... GOETHE'S HELENA GOETHE BURNS Foreign Review . - No . II . 1828 . Foreign Review . - No . III . 1828 . Edinburgh Review . - No . XCVI . 1828 . THE LIFE OF HEYNE Foreign Review . - No . IV . 1828 . GERMAN PLAYWRIGHTS VOLTAIRE Foreign ...
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... GOETHE'S WORKS Foreign Quarterly Review . - No . XIX . 1832 . CORN - LAW RHYMES Edinburgh Review . - No . CX . 1832 . NOVELLE : Translated from Goethe Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VI . No. XXXIV . 1832 . THE TALE : By Goethe Fraser's ...
... GOETHE'S WORKS Foreign Quarterly Review . - No . XIX . 1832 . CORN - LAW RHYMES Edinburgh Review . - No . CX . 1832 . NOVELLE : Translated from Goethe Fraser's Magazine . - Vol . VI . No. XXXIV . 1832 . THE TALE : By Goethe Fraser's ...
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... Goethe's Wilhelm Meis- ter , it is said , and Faust , are full of bad taste also . With respect to the taste in which they are written , we shall have occasion to say some- what hereafter : meanwhile , we may be per- mitted to remark ...
... Goethe's Wilhelm Meis- ter , it is said , and Faust , are full of bad taste also . With respect to the taste in which they are written , we shall have occasion to say some- what hereafter : meanwhile , we may be per- mitted to remark ...
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... Goethe , by birth a Frankfort burgher , been , since his twenty- sixth year , the companion , not of nobles but of ... Goethe's works was guarantied to be state of matters is the safest which requires it protected against commercial ...
... Goethe , by birth a Frankfort burgher , been , since his twenty- sixth year , the companion , not of nobles but of ... Goethe's works was guarantied to be state of matters is the safest which requires it protected against commercial ...
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... Goethe's criticism of Hamlet in his Wilhelm Meister . This truly is what may be called the poetry of criticism ; for it is in some sort also a creative art ; aim- ing , at least , to reproduce under a different shape the existing ...
... Goethe's criticism of Hamlet in his Wilhelm Meister . This truly is what may be called the poetry of criticism ; for it is in some sort also a creative art ; aim- ing , at least , to reproduce under a different shape the existing ...
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Page 330 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 330 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Page 98 - Here are no fabulous woes or joys ; no hollow fantastic sentimentalities ; no wiredrawn refinings, either in thought or feeling : the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living heart ; the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and been a light to his own steps.
Page 108 - His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish — a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture ; but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective.
Page 25 - Let some beneficent Divinity snatch him when a suckling from the breast of his mother, and nurse him with the milk of a better time ; that he may ripen to his full stature beneath a distant Grecian sky. And having grown to manhood, let him return, a foreign shape, into his century; not, however, to delight it by his presence ; but terrible, like the Son of Agamemnon, to purify it.
Page 328 - At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek languages, by SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Page 181 - Philosophy can bake no bread ; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.
Page 29 - As all Nature's thousand changes But one changeless God proclaim ; So in Art's wide kingdoms ranges One sole meaning still the same : This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands for aye in loveliness.
Page 340 - His dress was a rusty brown morning suit, a pair of old shoes by way of slippers, a little shrivelled wig sticking on the top of his head, and the sleeves of his shirt and the knees of his breeches hanging loose. A considerable crowd of people gathered round, and were not a little struck by this singular appearance.
Page 224 - Were there as many Devils in Worms as there are roof-tiles, I would on.