The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life. Together with his Annals: or, Day and year papers. Tr. from the German, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1900 - 518 pages |
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... feelings in a wilful manner , so as always to have something to do . He endeavoured to give reality to his sympathies and antipathies by the most perverse means , and always himself destroyed his own work . Thus he never benefited any ...
... feelings in a wilful manner , so as always to have something to do . He endeavoured to give reality to his sympathies and antipathies by the most perverse means , and always himself destroyed his own work . Thus he never benefited any ...
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... feeling , and I had not the slightest notion of that physical affinity to which Lavater inclined . I was , therefore , vexed by the importunity , with which a man so full of mind and heart , attacked me , as well as Mendelssohn and ...
... feeling , and I had not the slightest notion of that physical affinity to which Lavater inclined . I was , therefore , vexed by the importunity , with which a man so full of mind and heart , attacked me , as well as Mendelssohn and ...
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... feeling have so often turned to the Mother of God as a paragon of female beauty and virtue , and like Sannazaro ... feelings , his understanding , his imagination as perfectly as he can . With Knowledge it is directly the opposite ...
... feeling have so often turned to the Mother of God as a paragon of female beauty and virtue , and like Sannazaro ... feelings , his understanding , his imagination as perfectly as he can . With Knowledge it is directly the opposite ...
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... feeling without a trace of sentimen- tality , and with a lively way of speaking , she was a fine Netherlands ' woman , who without any expression of sensu- ality , by her robust nature called to mind the women of Rubens . Both these ...
... feeling without a trace of sentimen- tality , and with a lively way of speaking , she was a fine Netherlands ' woman , who without any expression of sensu- ality , by her robust nature called to mind the women of Rubens . Both these ...
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... feelings would not be schooled . They needed to be expanded by free good will and to be moved to a surrender by sincere sympathy . One feeling which prevailed greatly with me and could never find an expression odd enough for itself was ...
... feelings would not be schooled . They needed to be expanded by free good will and to be moved to a surrender by sincere sympathy . One feeling which prevailed greatly with me and could never find an expression odd enough for itself was ...
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