. The autobiography of Goethe : truth and fiction relating to my life . ion of former times. The publication, or rather the manufacture, of those books,which have at a later day become so well known and under the name Volkschrifben, Volksbueher (popularworks or books), was carried on in Frankfort. The enor-mous -ales they met with led to their being almost illegiblyprinted from stereotypes on horrible blotting-paper. were bo fortunate as to find these precious remainsof the Middle Ages every day on a little table at the door of? dealer in cheap books, and to obtain the
. The autobiography of Goethe : truth and fiction relating to my life . ion of former times. The publication, or rather the manufacture, of those books,which have at a later day become so well known and under the name Volkschrifben, Volksbueher (popularworks or books), was carried on in Frankfort. The enor-mous -ales they met with led to their being almost illegiblyprinted from stereotypes on horrible blotting-paper. were bo fortunate as to find these precious remainsof the Middle Ages every day on a little table at the door of? dealer in cheap books, and to obtain them at the cost of acouple of KretUzer. ••The Eulenspiegel, The Four Sonsof Haimon, The Emperor Octavian, The Fair The Beautiful Magelone, •• Fortunatus, with theWhole race down to The Wandering dew, were all at ourservice, m often a- we preferred the relish of these worksio the taste of sweet things. The greatest benefit of thiswas, that, when we had read through or damaged such asheet, it could soon he reprocured, and swallowed a second RELATING TO MY LIFE. 31 As a family picnic in summer is vexatiously disturbed bya sudden storm, which transforms a pleasant state of thingsinto the very reverse : so the diseases of childhood fall unex-pectedly on the most beautiful season of early life. And thusit happened with me. 1 had just purchased l Fortunatuswith his Purse and Wishing-hat, when I was attacked bya restlessness and fever which announced the was still with us considered very problematical;and, although it had already been intelligibly and urgentlyrecommended by popular writers, the German physicianshesitated to perform an operation that seemed to forestallNature. Speculative Englishmen, therefore, had come tothe Continent, and inoculated, for a considerable fee, thechildren of such persons as were opulent, and free from preju-dices. Still, the majority were exposed to the old disease:the infection raged through families, ki
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