 When Goethe's death was told, we said : Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear ; And struck his finger on the place, And...  The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 231von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Matthew Arnold - 1855 - 270 Seiten
...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,...the place And said — Thou ailest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the... | |
 | 1856 - 560 Seiten
...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, ' Theu ailest here, and here." " He knew all symptoms... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 Seiten
...reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic strife. MEMORIAL VEESES. 269 When Goethe's death was told, we said — Sunk, then,...the place And said — Thou ailest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...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 ou the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.'" He knew all symptoms... | |
 | 1862 - 606 Seiten
...all, in some Goethe, standing with 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 292 Seiten
...And yet with reverential awe We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage!...on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here !— He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power; His eye plunged down the... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 Seiten
...memory, works his fame; And, like clustered stars of heaven, Flash the letters of his name. RIEMER. When Goethe's death was told, we said— Sunk, then,...is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age, Groethe has done his pilgrimage; He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1871 - 484 Seiten
...claimed 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. 1 He looked on Europe's dying... | |
 | 1872 - 292 Seiten
...Ûberfefeen Ina SDeutfdjc. Memorial Verses. Goethe and Wordsworth. When Goethe's death was told, he said: Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head! Physician...race, He read each wound each weakness clear. And shuck his finger on the place, And said : Thou ailest here ! and here ! — He look'd on Europe's dying... | |
 | 1875 - 810 Seiten
...the “Memorial Verses” written in April i8¿o, which include the famous passage about Goethe :— When Goethe's death was told, we said: Sunk, then,...on the place, And said: Thou ailest here, and here !.—. He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power; His eye plunged down the... | |
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