Goethe's Literary EssaysHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 302 trang |
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Trang 153 - A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.
Trang 256 - People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what can we call our own except energy, strength, and will ? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour.
Trang 149 - ... birth, had in him been unfolded simultaneously. He was a prince, by birth a prince ; and he wished to reign, only that good men might be good without obstruction. Pleasing in form, polished by nature, courteous from the heart, he was meant to be the pattern of youth and the joy of the world. "Without any prominent passion, his love for Ophelia was a still presentiment of sweet wants. His zeal in knightly accomplishments was not entirely his own; it needed to be quickened and inflamed by praise...
Trang 270 - Comprehensibility is the purpose, and the three unities are only so far good as they conduce to this end. If the observance of them hinders the comprehension of a work, it is foolish to treat them as laws, and to try to observe them. Even the Greeks, from whom the rule was taken, did not always follow it. In the Phaeton...
Trang 152 - ... before your eyes, and then observe him when he learns that his father's spirit walks; stand by him in the terrors of the night, when the venerable ghost itself appears before him. A horrid shudder passes over him ; he speaks to the mysterious form ; he sees it beckon him ; he follows it, and hears.
Trang 155 - How do you demonstrate that ?" inquired Serlo. "I will not demonstrate anything," said Wilhelm ; "I will merely show you what my own conceptions of it are." Aurelia rose up from her cushion ; leaned upon her hand, and looked at Wilhelm ; who, with the firmest assurance that he was in the right, went on as follows : " It pleases us, it flatters us to see a hero acting on his own strength ; loving and hating as his heart directs him; undertaking and completing; casting every obstacle aside ; and at...
Trang 157 - ... nurse, to lull her senses to repose with songs which only kept them more awake? But at last, when her self-command is altogether gone, when the secrets of her heart are hovering on her tongue, that tongue betrays her, and in the innocence of insanity she solaces herself, unmindful of king or queen, with the echo of her loose and well-beloved songs: To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day ; and By Gis and by Saint Charity.
Trang 262 - Of our old songs — no less important than those of Scotland — how many lived among the people in the days of my youth? Herder and his successors first began to collect them and rescue them from oblivion; then they were at least printed in the libraries. Then, more lately, what songs have not Burger and Voss composed ! Who can say that they are more insignificant or less popular than those of the excellent Burns ? but which of them so lives among us that it greets us from the mouth of the people...
Trang 277 - ... merely regards the skeleton of the plot and arrangement, and only points out small points of resemblance to great predecessors, without troubling himself in the least as to what the author brings forward of graceful life and the culture of a high soul. But of what use are all the arts of a talent, if we do not find in a theatrical piece an amiable or great personality of the author.
Trang 256 - We are indeed born with faculties; but we owe our development to a thousand influences of the great world, from which we appropriate to ourselves what we can, and what is suitable to us. I owe much to the Greeks and French; I am infinitely indebted to Shakespeare, Sterne, and Goldsmith; but in saying this I do not show the sources of my culture ; that would be an endless as well as an unnecessary task.