Conversations Of Goethe With Eckermann

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017378535
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Download or read book Conversations With Eckermann: Being Appreciations and Criticisms On Many Subjects written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. GOETHE
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ISBN 13 : 9781033244012
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Download or read book CONVERSATIONS WITH ECKERMANN written by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. GOETHE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Ravenio Books
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Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “THIS collection of Conversations with Goethe took its rise chiefly from an impulse, natural to my mind, to appropriate to myself by writing any part of my experience which strikes me as valuable or remarkable. Moreover, I felt constantly the need of instruction, not only when I first met with that extraordinary man, but also after I had lived with him for years; and I loved to seize on the import of his words, and to note it down, that I might possess them for the rest of my life. When I think how rich and full were the communications by which he made me so happy for a period of nine years, and now observe how small a part I have retained in writing, I seem to myself like a child who, endeavouring to catch the refreshing spring shower with open hands, finds that the greater part of it runs through his fingers. But, as the saying is that books have their destiny, and as this applies no less to the origin of a book than to its subsequent appearance in the broad wide world, so we may use it with regard to the origin of this present book. Whole months often passed away, while the stars were unpropitious, and ill health, business, or various toils needful to daily existence, prevented me from writing a single line; but then again kindly stars arose, and health, leisure, and the desire to write, combined to help me a good step forwards. And then, where persons are long domesticated together, where will there not be intervals of indifference; and where is he who knows always how to prize the present at its due rate? I mention these things to excuse the frequent and important gaps which the reader will find, if he is inclined to read the book in chronological order. To such gaps belong much that is good, but is now lost, especially many favourable words spoken by Goethe of his widely scattered friends, as well as of the works of various living German authors, while other remarks of a similar kind have been noted down. But, as I said before, books have their destinies even at the time of their origin. For the rest, I consider that which I have succeeded in making my own in these two volumes, and which I have some title to regard as the ornament of my own existence, with deep-felt gratitude as the gift of Providence, and I have a certain confidence that the world with which I share it will also feel gratitude towards me. I think that these conversations not only contain many valuable explanations and instructions on science, art, and practical life, but that these sketches of Goethe, taken directly from life, will be especially serviceable in completing the portrait which each reader may have formed of Goethe from his manifold works. Still, I am far from imagining that the whole internal Goethe is here adequately portrayed. We may, with propriety, compare this extraordinary mind and man to a many-sided diamond, which in each direction shines with a different hue. And as, under different circumstances and with different persons, he became another being, so I, too, can only say, in a very modest sense, this is my Goethe. And this applies not merely to his manner of presenting himself to me, but to my capacity for apprehending and re-producing him. In such cases a reflection takes place, as in a mirror; and it is very seldom that, in passing through another individuality, nothing of the original is lost, and nothing foreign is blended. The representations of the person of Goethe by Rauch, Dawe, Stieler, and David have all a high degree of truth, and yet each bears more or less the stamp of the individuality which produced it. If this can be said of bodily things, how much more does it apply to the fleeting, intangible objects of the mind! However it may be in my case, I trust that all those who, from mental power or personal acquaintance with Goethe, are fitted to judge, will not misinterpret my exertions to attain the greatest possible fidelity.”

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Conversations with Goethe written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Peter Eckermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108040926
Total Pages : 453 pages
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Download or read book Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret written by Johann Peter Eckermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume English edition of Eckermann's and Soret's recollections, published in 1850, helped to reawaken interest in Goethe.

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400833701
Total Pages : 557 pages
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Download or read book The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature written by David Damrosch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to today As comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities. The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging anthology of classic essays and important recent statements on the mission and methods of comparative literary studies. This pioneering collection brings together thirty-two pieces, from foundational statements by Herder, Madame de Staël, and Nietzsche to work by a range of the most influential comparatists writing today, including Lawrence Venuti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Franco Moretti. Gathered here are manifestos and counterarguments, essays in definition, and debates on method by scholars and critics from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, giving a unique overview of comparative study in the words of some of its most important practitioners. With selections extending from the beginning of comparative study through the years of intensive theoretical inquiry and on to contemporary discussions of the world's literatures, The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature helps readers navigate a rapidly evolving discipline in a dramatically changing world.

Author : Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230285269
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret written by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...than chance," returned Goethe. "As I said, we are all groping among mysteries and wonders. Besides, one soul may have a decided influence upon another, merely by means of its silent presence, of which I could relate many instances. It has often happened to me that, when I have been walking with an acquaintance, and have had a living image of something in my mind, he has at once begun to speak of that very thing. I have also known a man who, without saying a word, could suddenly silence a party engaged in cheerful conversation, by the mere power of his mind. Nay, he could also introduce a tone which would make everybody feel uncomfortable. We have all something of electrical and magnetic forces within us, and we put forth, like the magnet itself, an attractive or repulsive power, accordingly as we come in contact with something similar or dissimilar. It is possible, nay, even probable, that if a young girl were, without knowing it, to find herself in a dark chamber with a man who designed to murder her, she would have an uneasy sense of his unknown presence, and that an anguish would come over her, which would drive her from the room to the rest of the household." "I know a scene in an opera," returned I, "in which two lovers, who had long been separated by a great distance, find themselves together in a dark room without knowing it; but they do not remain long together before the magnetic power begins to work! one feels the proximity of the other--they are involuntarily attracted towards each other--and it is not long before the young girl is clasped in the arms of the youth." "With lovers," answered Goethe, "this magnetic power is particularly strong, and acts even at a distance. In my younger days I have experienced cases enough, when, ...

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book Elective Affinities written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: