. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. l at his geniusfrom the distance. But I can truly say thatin the six years I have lived with him, I havenever for one moment been deceived in hischaracter. He has a high truth and integrity,and is thoroughly in earnest for the Right andthe Good. Earnestly, indefatigably, faithfully, resplen-dently, did John Wolfgang Goethe workthrough fourscore years, cultivating his com- GOETHE. 297 prehensive, many-sided, musical mind; his soulso high-strung, that to him the singing of thespheres, the divine rhythm of creation, wasmore audible than
. Coleridge, Shelley, Goethe: biographic aesthetic studies. l at his geniusfrom the distance. But I can truly say thatin the six years I have lived with him, I havenever for one moment been deceived in hischaracter. He has a high truth and integrity,and is thoroughly in earnest for the Right andthe Good. Earnestly, indefatigably, faithfully, resplen-dently, did John Wolfgang Goethe workthrough fourscore years, cultivating his com- GOETHE. 297 prehensive, many-sided, musical mind; his soulso high-strung, that to him the singing of thespheres, the divine rhythm of creation, wasmore audible than to most men; and so su-perbly gifted that he could echo it in thechoicest tones of wisdom and poetry. Bornin Frankfort-on-the-Main the 28th of August,1749, he breathed his last in Weimar on the22d of March, 1832, tranquilly, without pain,seated in an arm-chair beside his bed. In fullpossession of his great faculties, he went upto higher spheres, where Dante and Shake-speare awaited him. The last words from hislips, just before he expired, were,
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