item: #1 of 7 id: 11123 author: None title: The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. date: None words: 125953 flesch: 81 summary: [_Aside, glancing at_ MEPHISTOPHELES.] How! goes the fellow on a halting foot? MEPHISTOPHELES Is it permitted here with you to sit? MEPHISTOPHELES _(takes the gimlet_) _(To_ FROSCH) keywords: alas; art thou; away; blood; bosom; breast; brother; care; child; children; chorus; day; days; death; devil; dost; doth; e'en; earth; eyes; fair; far; father; faust; fear; fire; form; friend; german; god; gods; goethe; good; half; hand; hast; hath; heart; heaven; hermann; home; hope; house; human; iphigenia; joy; king; know; language; let; lies; life; like; literature; little; look; love; maiden; man; margaret; martha; men; mephistopheles; mind; mother; nature; naught; ne'er; near; need; new; night; noble; o'er; orestes; people; place; pleasure; poet; power; present; pylades; round; sense; shall; son; song; soul; speak; spirit; stand; sweet; tell; thee; thine; things; thoas; thou; thought; thy; time; tis; truth; von; wagner; woe; woman; words; work; world; years; young; youth cache: 11123.txt plain text: 11123.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 19753 author: Brown, Peter Hume title: The Youth of Goethe date: None words: 79380 flesch: 65 summary: In _Götz von Berlichingen_ Goethe had given expression to the ideals and emotions he had brought with him from Strassburg; Shakespeare and the memory of Friederike had been the main impulses to its production. In connection with his departure for Leipzig Goethe makes two confessions which are a striking commentary on the conditions of his home life in Frankfort. keywords: age; autobiography; beginning; case; character; circle; clavigo; day; days; development; die; experience; expression; fact; family; father; feeling; footnote; form; frankfort; friederike; friend; genius; german; goethe; great; götz; hand; heart; herder; home; influence; intercourse; interest; kestner; lavater; leipzig; letter; life; like; lili; literature; lotte; love; man; merck; mind; mother; nature; original; passion; period; place; play; poem; relations; religion; return; second; self; sister; society; son; state; strassburg; time; und; von; way; weimar; werther; wetzlar; words; work; world; years; youth cache: 19753.txt plain text: 19753.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 46883 author: Mühlbach, L. (Luise) title: Goethe and Schiller: An Historical Romance date: None words: 179235 flesch: 78 summary: And here it is, friend Schiller. Oh, Mr. Schiller, great Mr. Schiller, murmured Leonhard, hastening forward to open the door, you are not the only one whom she has deceived. keywords: arms; brother; charlotte; come; countenance; day; dear; death; desire; door; duke; earth; eyes; father; frederick; frederick schiller; friend; future; god; goethe; good; great; hand; happiness; happy; head; heart; honor; hour; house; king; king frederick; lady; leave; left; life; lips; look; love; madame; majesty; man; marie; men; mind; mother; new; order; people; place; poet; poor; prince; return; rietz; right; room; royal; schiller; smile; son; soul; spirit; table; tears; thought; time; tones; voice; von; wife; wilhelmine; william; wish; woman; words; work; world cache: 46883.txt plain text: 46883.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 5641 author: Lehrs, Ernst title: Man or Matter Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought date: None words: 141609 flesch: 55 summary: Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing. Howard in a modest yet dignified way describes his Christian faith, his guide through all his relationships, whether to other men or to nature.10 A man comes before us who, untroubled by the prevailing philosophy of his day, was able to advance to the knowledge of an objective truth in nature, because he had the ability to carry religious experience even into his observation of the sense-world. keywords: activity; body; chapter; colour; conception; condition; consciousness; day; discovery; earth; effect; electricity; ether; existence; experience; eye; fact; field; following; force; form; goethe; gravity; heat; human; kind; knowledge; levity; life; light; man; material; matter; means; mind; nature; new; number; observation; order; phenomena; physical; picture; plant; point; polarity; present; process; realm; result; science; sense; soul; space; sphere; state; substance; system; thinking; thought; time; view; way; work; world cache: 5641.txt plain text: 5641.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 5733 author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von title: Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life date: None words: 153570 flesch: 61 summary: It is worthy of note also, that persons who showed no signs of prophetic insight at other times, acquired, for the moment, while in his presence, and that by means of some sensible evidence, presentiments of diseases or deaths which were then occurring in distant places. We also went together at other times, as well as during the play; and, even while the representations went on, he seldom left me in peace. keywords: account; affair; age; art; attention; book; business; character; children; circumstances; city; company; condition; count; course; day; days; degree; door; effect; emperor; eyes; family; father; feeling; felt; form; frankfort; french; friend; general; german; goethe; good; great; hand; having; head; heart; history; home; house; kind; king; know; knowledge; left; life; long; love; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; moment; mother; nature; nay; objects; occasion; order; people; persons; pictures; place; pleasure; poetry; present; public; respect; rest; right; room; said; second; self; sense; set; short; sister; state; subject; table; thing; thought; time; von; way; work; world; years; youth cache: 5733.txt plain text: 5733.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 6312 author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo title: Representative Men: Seven Lectures date: None words: 58312 flesch: 69 summary: Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest. keywords: beauty; body; book; class; day; earth; end; eyes; fact; form; genius; god; good; great; heaven; history; human; ideas; intellect; intellectual; law; laws; life; love; man; means; men; mind; moral; napoleon; nature; new; people; persons; philosophy; place; plato; poet; poetry; power; real; reason; right; saw; science; self; sense; shakspeare; society; soul; spirit; state; swedenborg; talent; things; thought; time; truth; universe; use; virtue; way; works; world; years cache: 6312.txt plain text: 6312.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 6314 author: De Quincey, Thomas title: Biographical Essays date: None words: 80971 flesch: 57 summary: Pope certainly speaks of her under the name of Mrs. (_i. e._ Miss) W--, which at least argues a poetical exaggeration in describing her as a being that once had _titles_, honor, wealth, and fame; and he may as much have exaggerated her pretensions to beauty. Stratford are clear enough; but what motives determined his course _to_ London, and especially to the stage, still remains to be explained. keywords: account; age; author; birth; case; century; character; charles; circumstances; day; days; death; effect; endnote; english; fact; family; father; french; friend; german; goethe; good; great; greek; hand; house; intellectual; interest; john; lamb; life; literature; little; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; note; notice; original; people; period; person; place; poet; point; pope; power; public; question; rank; reader; reason; schiller; sense; shakspeare; sir; stage; stratford; subject; thought; time; value; viz; way; woman; works; world; years cache: 6314.txt plain text: 6314.txt