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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... ideas connected with them occasionally came forward , and the true haters of the world maintained that one was as little to be relied on as the other . Accordingly I took pleasure in declaring in favour of both , though without being ...
... ideas connected with them occasionally came forward , and the true haters of the world maintained that one was as little to be relied on as the other . Accordingly I took pleasure in declaring in favour of both , though without being ...
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... ideas ; and consequently , the book is without even those palpable metho- dical advantages which we must acknowledge in the similar work of Amos Comenius . But the conduct of Basedow was much more strange and difficult to comprehend ...
... ideas ; and consequently , the book is without even those palpable metho- dical advantages which we must acknowledge in the similar work of Amos Comenius . But the conduct of Basedow was much more strange and difficult to comprehend ...
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... idea of the noble brothers . Mademoiselle Fahlmer , who had come to Frankfort from Düsseldorf , and who was intimate with their circle , by the great tenderness of her sympathies , and the uncommon cultivation of her mind , furnished an ...
... idea of the noble brothers . Mademoiselle Fahlmer , who had come to Frankfort from Düsseldorf , and who was intimate with their circle , by the great tenderness of her sympathies , and the uncommon cultivation of her mind , furnished an ...
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... idea never realized ! It would seem , indeed , as if the architecture were there only to convince us that by many men , in a series of years , nothing can be accomplished , and that in art and in deeds only that is achieved which , like ...
... idea never realized ! It would seem , indeed , as if the architecture were there only to convince us that by many men , in a series of years , nothing can be accomplished , and that in art and in deeds only that is achieved which , like ...
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... ideas , I could only gather pre- sentiments of what might , perhaps afterwards grow more clear * The title of the poem is " Der untreue Knabe , " ( The Faithless Bcy ) , and in the first line of it , as published in Göthe's collected ...
... ideas , I could only gather pre- sentiments of what might , perhaps afterwards grow more clear * The title of the poem is " Der untreue Knabe , " ( The Faithless Bcy ) , and in the first line of it , as published in Göthe's collected ...
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