Life of Jean Paul Frederic Richter, Volume 2C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1842 |
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Page 197 - All weighty things are done in solitude, that is, without society. The means of improvement consist not in projects, or in any violent designs, for these cool, and cool very soon ; but in patient practising for whole long days, by which I make the thing dear to my highest reason.
Page 150 - ... fife, with which we made noisy music while he continued writing. We ventured in again many times in the day to play with a squirrel that he had at that time, and that in the evening he took out with him in his pocket, and always made one of the family circle. " He had, usually, animals that he tamed, about him. Sometimes a mouse : then a great, white, cross spider, that he kept in a paper box with a glass top. There was a little door beneath, by which he could feed his prisoner with dead flies....
Page 314 - Plutus' heaps are worth less than his handfuls, the plum than the penny for a rainy day; and that not great, but little good-haps can make us happy. — Can I accomplish this, I shall, through means of my Book, bring up for Posterity, a race of men finding refreshment in all things...
Page 304 - Emanuel, and next to Otto, the most beloved of Richter's friends. About six o'clock the physician entered. Richter yet appeared to sleep ; his features became every moment holier, his brow more heavenly, but it was cold as marble to the touch ; and as the tears of his wife fell upon it, he remained immovable. At length his respiration became less regular, but his features always calmer, more heavenly. A slight convulsion passed over the face ; the physician cried out, " that is death !
Page 91 - ... whose opened eyes and heart the flowery earth and beaming heavens strike, not in infinitesimals, but in large and towering masses ; for whom the great whole is something more than a nursery or a ball-room ; one who, with a feeling at once tender and discriminating, with a heart at once pious and large, forever improves the man whom she has wedded.
Page 184 - Hell," such as mortal never heard of; and a great deal of it is actually done, but not fit for print. Speaking of descriptive composition, he also started as in fright when I ventured to say that Goethe was less complete in this province; he reminded me of two passages in " Werter," which are indeed among the finest descriptions. He said that to describe any scene well the poet must make the bosom of a man his camera obseura, and look at it through this, then would he see it poetically.
Page 314 - I accomplish this, 1 shall, through means of my Book, bring up for Posterity, a race of men finding refreshment in all things ; in the warmth of their rooms and of their night-caps ; in their pillows ; in the three High Festivals ; in mere Apostles...
Page 90 - Caroline has exactly that inexpressible love for all beings that I have till now failed to find even in those who in everything else possess the splendour and purity of the diamond. She preserves in the full harmony of her love to me the middle and lower tones of sympathy for every joy and sorrow in others.
Page 217 - I well know how to imagine. You think much too well of me as a man. No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. Write to me in future very often of all that is nearest your heart, either of joy or sorrow. You will thus relieve your mind of what rests upon it. You have become, by a peculiar bond, more knit to my life than any other absent acquaintance : only draw not false conclusions from my long silence. Very delightful to me will be...
Page 77 - ... a lover of culture. Richter, still unmarried, though thirty-five years old, was in due course attracted to Berlin. Here he was received with measureless welcome. The queen was his friend. The whole court, therefore, was of course at his service. " So much hair has been begged of me," he writes, " that if I were to make it a traffic I could live as well from the outside of my cranium as from what is inside it.