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... he dealt with his thoughts and 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 perverso means , and always himself destroyed his own
work .
... he dealt with his thoughts and 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 perverso means , and always himself destroyed his own
work .
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On a tour which Lavater now made through Germany , he zame into contact with
educated and right - thinking men ; but that served only to confirm his previous
thoughts and convictions , and on his return home he worked from his own ...
On a tour which Lavater now made through Germany , he zame into contact with
educated and right - thinking men ; but that served only to confirm his previous
thoughts and convictions , and on his return home he worked from his own ...
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... for while seeming to yield he would suddenly bring forward , like a
diamondshield , some grand view , of which his narrow - minded opponent would
never have thought , and at the same time he would so agreeably moderate the
light which ...
... for while seeming to yield he would suddenly bring forward , like a
diamondshield , some grand view , of which his narrow - minded opponent would
never have thought , and at the same time he would so agreeably moderate the
light which ...
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Occasionally he cast himself on the couch and slumbered , while his amanuensis
sat quietly , pen in hand , ready to continue his work when the half awakened
author should once again give free course to his thoughts . All this took place in a
...
Occasionally he cast himself on the couch and slumbered , while his amanuensis
sat quietly , pen in hand , ready to continue his work when the half awakened
author should once again give free course to his thoughts . All this took place in a
...
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... what was within me , burst out like a torrent , and this is perhaps the reason
why I recollect so little of individual events . The thoughts we have had , the
pictures we have seen , can be again called up before the mind and the
imagination ; but ...
... what was within me , burst out like a torrent , and this is perhaps the reason
why I recollect so little of individual events . The thoughts we have had , the
pictures we have seen , can be again called up before the mind and the
imagination ; but ...
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| Title | 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 2 Volume 3 of Goethe's Works The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life. Together with His Annals: Or, Day and Year Papers. Tr. from the German, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Publisher | G. Bell and sons, 1900 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 518 pages |
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