 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...adorn'd outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. [From Memorial Verttt.] GOETHE. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou attest here, and here! EARLY DEATH AND FAME. FOR him who must see many years, I praise the life which... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...for that Titanic strife. When Goethe passed away, he said — " Sunk then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage." He took the suffering human race, He scanned each wound, each weakness, near, And struck his finger on the place, And said, " Thou ailest... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...that Titanic strife. When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age Goethe has done his pilgrimage....hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the weltering strife, The turmoil of expiring life ; He said — The end is everywhere... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pages
...expending none of his strength in yearnings towards heaven. In this sense Goethe was a demigod : " He took the suffering human race ; He read each wound, each weakness clear ; He struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " He knew all symptoms... | |
 | 1868 - 380 pages
...of times, peoples, and theories, how finely it was said, — " Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head : Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage....the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen, to be physicians of the... | |
 | 1868 - 394 pages
...of times, peoples, and theories, how finely it was said, — " Sunk, then, is Europe's sngest head : Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage....And struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou aikst here, and here.' " . The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen,... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...of his name. EIEMER. When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage...the place And said — thou ailest here, and here. M. ARXOLD. His heart which few knew, was as great as his mind, which all knew. STILLING. He has a clear,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1871 - 456 pages
...to be a sign to that generation. serene brow above the clouds of human sorrow and weakness : — " He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear : He struck his finger on the place And said ' Thou ailest here and here.' He looked on Europe's dying... | |
 | 1875 - 804 pages
...passage about Goethe : — When Goethe's death was told, we said : Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head ! Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage...strife, The turmoil of expiring life ; He said : The end n everywhere ! Art still has truth ; take refuge there ! — And he vvns happy, if to know Causes of... | |
 | 1875 - 804 pages
...passage about Goethe : — When Goethe's death was told, we said : Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head ! Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage...clear, And struck his finger on the place, And said : //.•••,•/ attest here, and here ! — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and... | |
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Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here! 
