The Life of Goethe: 1749-1788. From birth to the return from ItalyG. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 |
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Página 94 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, And let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations : Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; And thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, And make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Página 282 - And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest ; as with the servant, so with his master ; as with the maid, so with her mistress ; as with the buyer, so with the seller ; as with the lender, so with the borrower ; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Página 420 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child : now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things.
Página 18 - Life it now renews the old allegiance. Once Heavenly Love sent down a burning kiss Upon my brow, in Sabbath silence holy; And, filled with mystic presage, chimed the church-bell slowly, And prayer dissolved me in a fervent bliss. A sweet, uncomprehended yearning Drove forth my feet through woods and meadows free, And while a thousand tears were burning, I felt a world arise for me.
Página 228 - What vexation!" he wrote in the same letter to Auguste Stolberg. " Oh, that I could tell you all; here in the room of the girl who is •making me unhappy without being to blame, with the soul of an angel, whose serene days I am clouding, — I!" Lili's suffering was doubled and trebled. While, on the one hand, her lover offended her by his vacillating between love, indifference, and defiance, on the other hand, her relatives urged her to dissolve the betrothal. After Goethe's strikingly long absence,...
Página 282 - There is a crying for wine in the streets ; All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. In the city is left desolation, And the gate is smitten with destruction.
Página 124 - Enough, we are here, and you see that you were wrong! You .would not believe that the noise of the city would grate on my ears after your sweet country joys. Certainly, Mam'sell, Strasburg never seemed to me so empty as now. I hope it may be better when time shall have worn away a little of the memory of our delightful, unrestrained enjoyment, when I shall no longer feel so vividly how good, how amiable, my friend is. But can it be that I could or would forget it? No, I will rather keep the little...
Página 228 - What a glorious poem it would be to see how the world mirrors itself in this soul ! She sees the world as it is, and yet withal sees it through the medium of love ; hence sweetness is the dominant expression.
Página 421 - Es hat der Autor, wenn er schreibt, So etwas Gewisses, das ihn treibt," etc., forms a fine, roguish, marginal note, whereas, considered as an addition to a quotation from some one else, it surely is, as Herrmann says, "somewhat meaningless.
Página 163 - ... the oppressed fulness of his heart, lines of farewell to Kestner and Lotte, still preserved ; in the morning adding to Lotte's note a last word, enclosing some pictures for the children, forgotten until then. " Always a merry heart, dear Lotte, you are happier than a hundred — but not insensible ! and I, dear Lotte, am happy that I read in your eyes your belief that I will never change. Adieu, a thousand times. adieu !"2 Lotte and Kestner could only approve the step.