The Foreign Review, Volume 2Black, Young, and Young, 1828 |
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Page 108 - ... world along with them: Nature has given to each whatever he requires for time and duration; to unfold this is our duty; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord. One thing there is, however, which no child brings into the world with him; and yet it is on this one thing that all depends for making man in every point a man. If you can discover it yourself, speak it out.
Page 96 - To griefs congenial prone More wounds than nature gave he knew, While misery's form his fancy drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own...
Page 107 - ... the party riding past them; or rather, as it was easy to infer, towards the Overseer, who was in it The youngest laid their arms crosswise over their breasts and looked cheerfully up to the sky ; those of middle size held their hands on their backs, and looked smiling on the ground; the eldest stood with a frank and spirited air; their arms stretched down, they turned their heads to the right, and formed themselves into a line; whereas the others kept separate, each where he chanced to be. '...
Page 42 - It might have been expected that these reasonings should have led them to aim at establishing a system of what might properly be called natural jurisprudence, or a theory of the general principles which ought to run through and be the foundation of the laws of all nations.
Page 111 - ... Jerusalem, and dispersed the people ; yet you have not introduced the divine Man who taught there shortly before; to whom, shortly before, they would give no ear." ' " To have done this, as you require it, would have been an error. The life of that divine Man, whom you allude to, stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life, his teaching was a teaching for individuals. What has publicly befallen vast masses of people, and the minor parts which...
Page 84 - 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...
Page 100 - Meister : it may pass for a piece of fine declamation, but not in that light do we offer it here. Strange, unaccountable as the thing may seem, we have actually evidence before our mind that Goethe believes in such doctrines, nay, has, in some sort, lived and endeavoured to direct his conduct by them. ' " Look at men," continues Wilhelm, " how they struggle after happiness and satisfaction! Their wishes, their toil, their gold, are ever hunting restlessly ; and after what ? After that which the Poet...
Page 92 - That nameless Unrest, the blind struggle of a soul in bondage, that high, sad, longing Discontent, which was agitating every bosom, had driven Goethe almost to despair. All felt it; he alone could give it voice. And here lies the secret of his popularity; in his deep, susceptive heart, he felt a thousand times more keenly what every one was feeling; with the creative gift which belonged to him as a poet, he bodied it forth into visible shape, gave it a local habitation and a name; and so made himself...
Page 445 - ... which drove me to and fro for several days ; to this hour, it is incomprehensible to me where I found resolution to determine on renouncing the offer, and pursuing my object in Leipzig.
Page 121 - But we are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment of any man or thing, it is useful, nay essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.