| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 - 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... | |
| 1868 - 380 pages
...was told, whose survey comprehended the horizon of times, peoples, and theories, how finely it was said, — " Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head :...the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen, to be physicians of the... | |
| 1868 - 394 pages
...horizon of times, peoples, and theories, how finely it was said, — " Sunk, then, is Europe's sngest head : Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done...And struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou aikst here, and here.' " . The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen,... | |
| Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...memory, works his fame ; And, like clustered stars of heaven, Flash the letters of his name. EIEMER. When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then,...the place And said — thou ailest here, and here. M. ARXOLD. His heart which few knew, was as great as his mind, which all knew. STILLING. He has a clear,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1871 - 456 pages
...to be a sign to that generation. serene brow above the clouds of human sorrow and weakness : — " 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 looked on Europe's dying... | |
| 1875 - 804 pages
...instance, the " Memorial Verses" written in April 1850, which include the famous passage about Goethe : — When Goethe's death was told, we said : Sunk, then,...clear, And struck his finger on the place, And said : //.•••,•/ attest here, and here ! — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and... | |
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