 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 354 pages
...every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching in many eases to enthusiasm. That it will be equally successful...the tedium of mental vacancy, employing the crude phantas7 magoria of a modern novel, as their grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhelm... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1864 - 352 pages
...curiosity, intelligent or idle, which it may awaken, the number of admiring, or even approving judges il will find can scarcely fail of being very limited....grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhelm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those in particular,... | |
 | 1871 - 384 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhelm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those, in particular,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1874 - 270 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhdm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those, in particular,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 430 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhelm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those in particular,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1890 - 304 pages
...every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching in many coses to enthusiasm. That it will be equally successful...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wilhelm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those in particular,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 502 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, Wtthelm Meister will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those in particular,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 792 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of " Meister " have been printed ; critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, " Wilhelm Meister " will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable. Those, in particular,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 397 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795, when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of " Meister " have been printed; critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, "Wilhelm Meister" will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale, and unprofitable. Those, in particular,... | |
 | J W Von Goethe - 1917 - 638 pages
...indicated by it. Since the year 1795. when it first appeared at Berlin, numerous editions of "Meister" have been printed: critics of all ranks, and some...grandfathers employed tobacco and diluted brandy, "Wilhelm Meister" will appear beyond endurance weary, flat, stale and unprofitable. Those, in particular,... | |
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Meister have been printed : critics of all ranks, and some of them dissenting widely from its doctrines, have loaded it with encomiums; its songs and poems are familiar to every German ear; the people read it, and speak of it, with an admiration approaching... 
