Memoirs of Goethe:, Bind 2H. Colburn, 1824 - 350 sider |
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Side 37 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand. Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a searcli so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
Side 41 - To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature gave he knew, While misery's form his fancy drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own.
Side 225 - ... thermal contact between the heater and the specimen holder. (c) The thermal switch The use of helium as an exchange gas to accelerate the attainment of temperature equilibrium between the specimen holder and the surrounding can is accompanied by many disadvantages in low temperature calorimetry. These are so well known that it is unnecessary to enumerate them here. To overcome these disadvantages it is now usual to employ some form of mechanical heat switch to establish and break thermal connexion...
Side 163 - if \ve judge of him by what he now is, he must have been a remarkably fine looking man. Old age has not impaired the dignity and grace of his deportment; and his truly Grecian head, large penetrating eyes, and elevated forehead, continue to rivet the attention of all who look on him.
Side 44 - ... ideas, and even illusions, with which this important subject had inspired me. I combined together the elements of a work which had been fermenting in my brain for some years. I recalled all the events which had caused me the greatest degree of pain and sorrow; but my ideas did not acquire a fixed form. I wanted an incident, a story upon which I might embody them. While my thoughts were thus employed, the death of young Jerusalem took place. The most minute and circumstantial details of the event...
Side 126 - Memoirs:" "The objects which had occupied my attention during the day often reappeared at night in connected dreams. On awakening a new composition, or a portion of one I had already commenced, presented itself to my mind. In the morning I was accustomed to record my ideas on paper.
Side 10 - Nothing is more delightful than to feel a new passion rising, when the flame that burned before is not yet quite extinguished. Thus, at the hour of sunset, we behold with pleasure the orb of night ascending on the opposite side of the horizon: we then enjoy the double brilliancy of the two celestial luminaries We had abundance of amusement both within and without doors.
Side 114 - ... the horizon, he pays special homage as the king of all the stars. The moon next appears, and captivates for a while the eyes and the heart of the pious adorer of Nature. Presently the brilliant rising of the sun excites him to renewed homage. But the aspect of the heavenly bodies, notwithstanding the satisfaction with which they inspire him, leaves his heart a prey to desire. He feels that there is still something greater ; and his soul is elevated to the contemplation of the only, eternal, and...
Side 113 - I found that history presented situations completely similar. It was thus that I conceived the idea of borrowing, from the series of events which compose the life of Mahomet, the groundwork of a dramatic representation of those bold enterprises so "forcibly presented to my mind; and which, though determined by noble feelings, too frequently end in crime.
Side 47 - Ehrenbreitstein, and the gaiety of her youth. I now found myself involved in all the interests of the family, without being able to take any real or active part in them. Whenever any cause of disagreement arose, an appeal was made to me; and the force of my affection generally contributed to render matters worse instead of better.