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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... 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 life , and to transfer to these pages a full exhibition of 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 life , and to transfer to these pages a full exhibition of his ...
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... talent , in which tenderness , facility , and subtlety rivalled each other , proceeded from a real depth , from an inex- haustible creative power , but was thoroughly morbid with all its beauty . Such qualities are precisely the most ...
... talent , in which tenderness , facility , and subtlety rivalled each other , proceeded from a real depth , from an inex- haustible creative power , but was thoroughly morbid with all its beauty . Such qualities are precisely the most ...
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... talent with his own : now he seemed to make himself inferio to me , now to represent himself as my equal ; but it was al done with such humorous and neat turns of expression that I gladly received the view he intended to convey , and ...
... talent with his own : now he seemed to make himself inferio to me , now to represent himself as my equal ; but it was al done with such humorous and neat turns of expression that I gladly received the view he intended to convey , and ...
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... talent , and education . He appeared to be a striving sort of person , and was therefore welcome . He , too , attached himself to me , and as I made nc secret of my plans , I shewed to him as well as others my sketch of the Faust ...
... talent , and education . He appeared to be a striving sort of person , and was therefore welcome . He , too , attached himself to me , and as I made nc secret of my plans , I shewed to him as well as others my sketch of the Faust ...
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... talents , such as are common to all well - endowed men , a facile power of appre- hension , an excellent memory , and great fluency of speech , he possessed in a high degree ; but he appeared to regard all these as of less value than ...
... talents , such as are common to all well - endowed men , a facile power of appre- hension , an excellent memory , and great fluency of speech , he possessed in a high degree ; but he appeared to regard all these as of less value than ...
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