 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...adorn'd outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. [From Memorial Verttt.] GOETHE. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou attest here, and here! EARLY DEATH AND FAME. FOR him who must see many years, I praise the life which... | |
 | 800 pages
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 | 1850 - 640 pages
...We watched the fount of fiery life Which flowed for that Titanic strife. When Goethe passed away, he said — " Sunk then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician...pilgrimage." He took the suffering human race, He scanned each wound, each weakness, near, And struck his finger on the place, And said, " Thou ailest... | |
 | 1940 - 552 pages
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 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...words 2 0 MEMOBIAL VEBSES. From a volume entitled Empedocks on Etna,, by " A " published not long ago. WHEN Goethe's death was told, we said, — Sunk, then,...the place, And said, — Thou ailest here and here. He look'd on Europe's dying hour, Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plunged down the weltering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1855 - 270 pages
...And yet with reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic strife. When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then,...Iron Age Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suifering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear — And struck his finger on the place... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...And yet with reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic strife. When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then,...the place And said — Thou ailest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic strife. MEMORIAL VERSES. 269 When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then,...And struck his finger on the place And said — Thou attest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pages
...expending none of his strength in yearnings towards heaven. In this sense Goethe was a demigod : " He took the suffering human race ; He read each wound, each weakness clear ; He struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " He knew all symptoms... | |
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He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here! 
