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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... remarkable mortal , and have touched affec- tionately on his talent for humor . I will now speak of his character , in its results rather than descriptively , because it would be impossible to follow him through the mazy course of his ...
... remarkable mortal , and have touched affec- tionately on his talent for humor . I will now speak of his character , in its results rather than descriptively , because it would be impossible to follow him through the mazy course of his ...
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... remarkable a person ; many hoped to profit by him in the way of moral and religious culture ; the sceptics prepared to distinguish themselves by grave objections ; the conceited felt sure of entangling and confounding him by arguments ...
... remarkable a person ; many hoped to profit by him in the way of moral and religious culture ; the sceptics prepared to distinguish themselves by grave objections ; the conceited felt sure of entangling and confounding him by arguments ...
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... remarkable travellers . On my part , I hoped for for- giveness from them for sundry little improprieties which had originated in the great love of mischief that Herder's keen humor had excited in us . The letters and poems in which ...
... remarkable travellers . On my part , I hoped for for- giveness from them for sundry little improprieties which had originated in the great love of mischief that Herder's keen humor had excited in us . The letters and poems in which ...
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... remarkable in German literature , by having called forth a declaration from Lessing against Jacobi on certain weighty matters of thought and feeling . It thus served as the match to an explosion which revealed and brought into ...
... remarkable in German literature , by having called forth a declaration from Lessing against Jacobi on certain weighty matters of thought and feeling . It thus served as the match to an explosion which revealed and brought into ...
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... remarkable talents of his own , to notice , seize upon , and bring out in his own way all that for some time had passed either in jest and earnest in an intellectual society . And thus on this occasion as on many others afterwards , I ...
... remarkable talents of his own , to notice , seize upon , and bring out in his own way all that for some time had passed either in jest and earnest in an intellectual society . And thus on this occasion as on many others afterwards , I ...
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