[Goethe's works] . elf for miles beforethem, and they pointed out the several spots which i^ n\\\ \.u\, \a<,. LIFE AND WORKS OF GO! •rlntirin to Lesfinc; namely, that he loved a whole, but could ...t. details, holds good .16 through Kfe. Goethe in the , seems - i love, — which animates philan- •^ in their philanthropy, even ids. bad fathers, bad brothers, lie 3, the most for indi^ .oncrete and affection i e was more attracted to men than to . .nee topoi] luy .» ul . People he led him to other illustrations ;; and here Homer and Ossian were It was at this time that Ossian ma
[Goethe's works] . elf for miles beforethem, and they pointed out the several spots which i^ n\\\ \.u\, \a<,. LIFE AND WORKS OF GO! •rlntirin to Lesfinc; namely, that he loved a whole, but could ...t. details, holds good .16 through Kfe. Goethe in the , seems - i love, — which animates philan- •^ in their philanthropy, even ids. bad fathers, bad brothers, lie 3, the most for indi^ .oncrete and affection i e was more attracted to men than to . .nee topoi] luy .» ul . People he led him to other illustrations ;; and here Homer and Ossian were It was at this time that Ossian made; the ti-ii! A Europe, and everywhere met believers. Goi ih- ^ hted with the v^ld northern singer, flint h :,e song of Selma and afterward tid the exquisite picturev lu see living in the parson- *^ry of the P often met \\y(. Set; ablets ol riiolugiavuic- ll,e iiiavviiig by W. I liedj,. h. LIFE AND WORKS OF GOETHE iiT memory endeared to each. One spot, above all others,has interest for us — Sesenheim, the home of all the women who enjoyed the distmction ofGoethes love, none seem to me so fascinating asFrederika. Her idyllic presence is familiar to everylover of German literature, through the charming epi-sode of the Autobiography, over which the poet lingeredwith peculiar delight. The secretary is now (1854)hving to whom this episode was dictated, and he re-members vividly how much affected Goethe seemedto be as these scenes revisited memory ; walking upand down the room, with his hands behind him, heoften stopped in his walk, and paused in the dictation;then after a long silence, followed by a deep sigh, hecontinued the narrative in a lower tone. Weyland, a fellow boarder, had often spoken of aclergyman who, with his wife and two amiable daugh-ters, hved near Drusenheim, a village about sixteenmiles from Strasburg. Early in October, 1770, Wey-land propos
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