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acquaintance actors Actuarius Amtmann appeared arms asked Aurelia baron baroness beautiful began bosom castle chamber charming child count countess creature cried daugh delight door entertain eyes father favour feeling felt gave German girl give Goethe hand happy harper heart Hochdorf honour hope humour Jarno labour lady Laertes laughed lively looked louis-d'or lover Madam Melina Mariana means Meister Mignon mind Narciss NATHAN HASKELL DOLE nature neckerchief never night noble nosegay observed once party person Philina Photogravure piece play players poet praise present prince recollect replied rest scarcely scene secret seemed Serlo singular song soon soul speak spirit spleen stage Stallmeister stood stranger theatre thee things thou thought Three Unities threw tion took turn Werner Werther whole Wilhelm Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship wished young younker youth
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Page 178 - where didst thou get the little song?" " Italy!" said Mignon with an earnest air: " if thou go to Italy, take me along with thee; for I am too cold here.
Page 304 - And when the ghost has vanished, who is it that stands before us? A young hero panting for vengeance? A prince by birth, rejoicing to be called to punish the usurper of his crown? No! trouble and astonishment take hold of the solitary young man: he grows bitter against smiling villains, swears that he will not forget the spirit, and concludes with the expressive ejaculation: The time is out of joint: O! cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!
Page 246 - He kissed her hand, and meant to rise ; but as in dreams, some strange thing fades and changes into something stranger, and the succeeding wonder takes us by surprise ; BO, without knowing how it happened, he found the Countess in his arms ! Her lips were resting upon his, and their warm mutual kisses were yielding them that blessedness which mortals sip from the topmost sparkling foam on the freshly poured cup of love! "Her head lay upon his shoulder; the disordered...
Page 268 - I next went through the entire piece, without interruption ; but here, too, I found much that I could not away with. At one time the- characters, at another time the manner of displaying them, seemed inconsistent ; and I almost despaired of finding any general tint, in which I might present my whole part with all its shadings and variations. In such devious paths I toiled and wandered long in vain, till at length a hope arose that I might reach my aim in quite a new way. " I set about investigating...
Page 315 - 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...
Page 47 - ... ancient desk, once done, Werner liked to eat well, and, if possible, to drink better. Nor could he fully enjoy good things in solitude; with his family he must always see at table his friends, and any stranger that had the slightest connection with his house. His chairs were of unknown age and antique fashion; but he daily invited some to sit on them.
Page 277 - Further she would tell him nothing, but earnestly entreated him to keep still, as his wounds had been but slightly and hastily bound. He stretched out his hand to Mignon, and inquired about the bloody locks of the child, who he supposed was also wounded. For the sake of quietness, Philina let him know that this true-hearted creature, seeing her friend wounded, and in the hurry of the instant being able to think of nothing which would stanch the blood, had taken her own hair, that was flowing round...
Page 178 - Wilhelm opened the door; the child came in, and sang him the song we have just given above. The music and general expression of it pleased our friend extremely, though he could not understand all the words. He made her once more repeat the stanzas, and explain them; he wrote them down, and translated them into his native language. But the originality of its turns he could imitate only from afar ; its childlike innocence of expression vanished from it in the process of reducing its broken phraseology...
Page xvi - Travels," which, however, continues a fragment like the first, significantly pointing on all hands towards infinitude, — not more complete than the first was, or indeed perhaps less so. It will well reward the trustful student of Goethe to read this new form of the "Travels...