Memoirs of Goethe: Written by Himself, 第 1 巻H. Colburn, 1824 - 350 ページ |
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1 ページ - I was born under fortunate auspices; the sun was in the sign of the Virgin at the utmost degree of elevation. The aspects of Jupiter and Venus were favourable to the day. Mercury testified no signs of hostility; Saturn and Mars were neutral. The moon, however, then near the full, was an important obstacle ; and the more so, as the labour which attended my birth coincided with the Imur of her new phase.
344 ページ - German poet.—His mother was an amiable woman ; she had a strong relish for the beauties of nature, and was passionately fond of music and poetry. Schiller was her favourite child.
410 ページ - It is a belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.
29 ページ - Being unable to form an idea of the Supreme Being, I sought him in his works, and resolved to erect an altar to him, after the manner of the patriarchs. Certain productions of nature were to represent the world, and a flame was to arise, figurative of the human soul ascending towards its Creator. I therefore chose the most valuable articles in the collection of natural curiosities which I had at hand. The difficulty was to arrange them in such a manner as to compose a little edifice. My father had...
389 ページ - I shall, therefore, confine myself on this occasion to a more precise explanation of the manner in which I became acquainted with Shakspeare. When I was at Leipsic, I read Dodd's collection, entitled The Beauties of Shakspeare. Notwithstanding all that may be said against collections of this kind, which only make an author known piecemeal, they produce, in my opinion, very good effects.
411 ページ - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against...
446 ページ - As soon as bu:iness left the lover at liberty, he flew to the presence of his mistress. Thus, without thinking of it, we all three accustomed ourselves to each other, and always found ourselves together, without having formed any plan for meeting. We lived together in this manner a whole summer, like the characters of a true German Idyl, the foundation of which was a fertile country, while a pure, lively, and sincere attachment formed its poetry. We took walks amidst rich harvests, moistened by the...
29 ページ - At length I succeeded in securing these two conditions of my sacrifice. I had in my possession a few grains of incense. If they would not produce a flame, they might at least give light, and spread an agreeable perfume in burning. This mild light, shed by burning perfumes, expressed what passes in our minds at such a moment, even more perfectly than a flame. The sun had long risen above the horizon, but the neighbouring houses still intercepted his rays. At length he rose high enough to allow me,...
30 ページ - The young pontiff now found himself in ead perplexity. He succeeded in concealing the damage by means of his pile of natural curiosities ; but he never afterwards had the courage to attempt to repeat his sacrifice, and he thought he saw in this accident, a warning of the danger of attempting to approach the Deity in any manner whatsoever.
395 ページ - A youthful passion," says Goethe (alluding to one of his own early attachments), " which is conceived and cherished without any certain object, may be compared to a shell thrown from a mortar by night : it rises calmly in a brilliant track, and seems to mix and even to dwell for a moment with the stars of heaven ; but at length it falls, it bursts, consuming and destroying all around, even as itself expires.