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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : UCAL:$B257266
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : IBSC:SC400017164
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3267510-20
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465513977
It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence has been salutary, such reputation merited. That this call will one day be answered, that Goethe will be seen and judged of in his real character among us, appears certain enough. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true study exists: eagerly studied even in France; nay, some considerable knowledge of his nature and spiritual importance seems already to prevail there. [Footnote: Witness Le Tasse, Drame par Duval, and the Criticisms on it. See also the Essays in the Globe, Nos. 55, 64 (1826).] For ourselves, meanwhile, in giving all due weight to so curious an exhibition of opinion, it is doubtless our part, at the same time, to beware that we do not give it too much. This universal sentiment of admiration is wonderful, is interesting enough; but it must not lead us astray. We English stand as yet without the sphere of it; neither will we plunge blindly in, but enter considerately, or, if we see good, keep aloof from it altogether. Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending by casual extrinsic splendour the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. A man is in all cases simply the man, of the same intrinsic worth and weakness, whether his worth and weakness lie hidden in the depths of his own consciousness, or be betrumpeted and beshouted from end to end of the habitable globe. These are plain truths, which no one should lose sight of; though, whether in love or in anger, for praise or for condemnation, most of us are too apt to forget them. But least of all can it become the critic to 'follow a multitude to do evil' even when that evil is excess of admiration; on the contrary, it will behoove him to lift up his voice, how feeble soever, how unheeded soever, against the common delusion; from which, if he can save, or help to save any mortal, his endeavours will have been repaid. With these things in some measure before us, we must remind our readers of another influence at work in this affair, and one acting, as we think, in the contrary direction. That pitiful enough desire for 'originality' which lurks and acts in all minds, will rather, we imagine, lead the critic of Foreign Literature to adopt the negative than the affirmative with regard to Goethe. If a writer indeed feel that he is writing for England alone, invisibly and inaudibly to the rest of the Earth, the temptations may be pretty equally balanced; if he write for some small conclave, which he mistakenly thinks the representative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such isolated spirit is no longer possible.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : NLI:3267510-10
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000006844240
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : OCLC:498547501
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,John Oxenford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385429956
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108057479
Goethe (1749-1832) ranked among the greatest literary figures of his day. This two-volume translation of his autobiography first appeared in 1848-9.
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:30018055
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015003966200
Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037378117
Author : Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752579796
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Author : John Oxenford,Johann Wolfgang Von 1749-1832 Goethe
Publisher : Arkose Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1345831587
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Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547177296
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
