Memoirs of Goethe:, Bind 2H. Colburn, 1824 - 350 sider |
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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 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 241 - The mere intoxication of the defendant will not excuse or palliate his offense, unless he was in such a state of intoxication as to be incapable of conceiving any intent. If he was, his grade of offense is reduced to murder in the second degree.
Side 276 - T 2 and tutor to the famous Duke of Brunswick, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Jena. He was the founder of the Caroline College at Brunswick, and Director and principal professor of the seminary at Riddagshausen, of which place the Duke gave him the dignity and revenues of Abbot. In addition to his excellent sermons he has written Letters on the Religion of Moses, 1762.—Considerations on Religious Truths. This work has been translated into French, and is universally esteemed.—'Refutation...
Side 227 - Gessner; for in this respect all who have attempted to imitate his magical pencil have remained far behind him. He united in an eminent degree the talents of a poet and a painter. It has been justly observed, that his poems are impressed with the genius of the painter, and his paintings with that of the poet. Gessner's principal works are so well known that it is unnecessary to enumerate them here. A Life of this distinguished writer, by Hottinger. was published at Zurich in 1796. Interesting details...
Side 44 - I conceived the idea of painting in some imaginative composition all the sentiments, 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...
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.
Side 45 - While my thoughts were thus employed, the death of young Jerusalem took place. The most minute and circumstantial details of the event were immediately circulated. The plan of Werther was instantly conceived.
Side 113 - The piece opens with a hymn by Mahomet alone. The scene is supposed to represent a bright and serene night. Mahomet salutes the multitude of stars as so many divinities. To the propitious planet Gad (our Jupiter), then rising above 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 VOL.
Side 162 - What is here said of the mind of Gothe appears still to be the general opinion of his countrymen. The author of the Lexicon above referred to, observes, that the account given by Heinse of his external appearance is confirmed by the testimony of all who knew him in his youth.