 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 pages
...present business is to meet my own case, as matters actually stand; to consider by what means I may save myself, and reach the object which I cannot live in...cultivation of my nature, which has been denied me by my birth, is exactly what I long for most. Since leaving thee, I have gained much by voluntary practice:... | |
 | 1871 - 384 pages
...present business is to meet my own case, as matters actually stand; to consider by what means I may save myself, and reach the object which I cannot live in...aside much of my wonted embarrassment, and can bear my. self in very tolerable style. My speech and'voice I have likewise been attending to; and I may... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...harmonious cultivation of my nature, which has been denied me~By~'biflli;~t9 exactly whafe I most long fi Since leaving thee, I have gained much by voluntary...can bear myself in very tolerable style. My speech and_yoice I vhave likewis&.heen attending tp; ancfl mavsav. witEout niuc" vanity, that in soeiety^Tdo... | |
 | Robert Anchor - 1979 - 196 pages
...present business is to meet my own case, as matters actually stand; to consider by what means I may save myself, and reach the object which I cannot live in...denied me by birth, is exactly what I most long for. It is no accident that Meister was written in the form of an educational novel (Bildungsroman), a genre... | |
 | Paul Smith - 1996 - 266 pages
...man at his birth, and found his education upon his nature"; an echo, perhaps, of Wilhelm Meister's 'this harmonious cultivation of my nature, which has been denied me by my birth, is exactly what I long for most*. In Contarini Fleming, dismissing moral philosophy as 'a... | |
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Whether it will ever alter, and how, is to me of small importance : my present business is to meet my own case, as matters actually stand ; to consider by what means I may save myself, and reach the object which I cannot live in peace without. " Now,... 