I have never even read, much less did I think of them, when I was writing ' Faust.' But Lord Byron is only great as a poet ; as soon as he reflects, he is a child. He knows not how to help himself against the stupid attacks of the same kind made upon... Goethe's Works - Trang 94bởi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| 1881 - 314 trang
...translation of the " Eckermann Conversations," vol. i, p. 198: '"Lord Byron,' said Eckcrmann, 'it no wiser when he takes " Faust " to pieces and thinks you found...greater part of those fine things cited by Lord Byron,' Goethe replied, ' I have never read : much less did I think of them when I was writing " Faust." But... | |
| William Hale White - 1900 - 306 trang
...Conversations, vol. i. p. 198 (edition 1850) : — 134 " ' Lord Byron,' said Eckermann, ' is no wiser when he takes ' Faust ' to pieces and thinks you found...greater part of those fine things cited by Lord Byron,' Goethe replied, ' I have never even read ; much less did I think of them when I was writing " Faust."... | |
| William Hale White - 1910 - 400 trang
...Eckermann Conversations, vol. i. p. 198 (edition 1850): — " ' Lord Byron,' said Eckermann, ' is no wiser when he takes ' Faust ' to pieces and thinks you found...greater part of those fine things cited by Lord Byron,' Goethe replied, ' I have never even read ; much less did I think of them when I was writing " Faust."... | |
| Lina Oswald - 1912 - 200 trang
...on one occasion (18th January, 1825) to Byron's criticisms of his own Faust, Goethe remarked : — " Byron is only great as a poet ; as soon as he reflects he is a child." Again, more than two years later, we read : — " The English may think of Byron as they please ; but... | |
| Kuno Francke, William Guild Howard - 1913 - 584 trang
...day." "Ah, yes," said Goethe, " it is very ridiculous." " Lord Byron, too," said I, " is no wiser, when he takes Faust to pieces, and thinks you found...them, when I was writing Faust. But Lord Byron is great only as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child. He knows not how to help himself against... | |
| Kuno Francke, Isidore Singer - 1913 - 582 trang
...day." "Ah, yes," said Goethe, " it is very ridiculous." " Lord Byron, too," said I, " is no wiser, when he takes Faust to pieces, and thinks you found...them, when I was writing Faust. But Lord Byron is great only as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child. He knows not how to help himself against... | |
| Charles Allen Dinsmore - 1919 - 360 trang
...labored and uninteresting in his argument. One is tempted to say of him what Goethe said of Byron : " Lord Byron is only great as a poet, as soon as he reflects he is a child." Being sensitive and highly imaginative Dante's mind quickly pierced the heart of an object, or an experience.... | |
| 1924 - 574 trang
...rather than a philosopher. Goethe who indicated this characteristic of Byron's genius by remarking that "Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child,"32 also indicated a reason why Byron's popularity is not the popularity of second thought, of... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1921 - 326 trang
...account of his unsatisfied nature and his warlike tendency, which led to his death at Missolonghi. Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child. Scott Walter Scott's Fair Maid of Perth is excellent, is it not? There is finish! there is a hand!... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1921 - 326 trang
...account of his unsatisfied nature and his warlike tendency, which led to his death at Missolonghi. Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects, he is a child. Scott Walter Scott's Fair Maid of Perth is excellent, is it not? There is finish! there is a hand!... | |
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