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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... on the whole body, was there a trace either of fat or of leanness and decay. A perfect man lay in great beauty before me; and the rapture which the sight caused made me forget for a moment that the immortal spirit had left such an abode. I laid my hand on his heart--there was a deep silence--and I turned away to give free vent to my suppressed tears. THE END. INDEX. INDEX. A Academies, vol. i. page 129 Actors, Goethe's school for, i. 162 method of testing their ca-pabilities, i. 228 studies necessary for per-sonating a Greek hero, i. 380 Actions, right and wrong, results of, i. 273. Advice, remark by Goethe on, ii. 334. "Alexis and Dora," by Goethe, i. 274 Ampere, Mons. J. J.--his notice of Stapfer's translation of Goethe's dramatic works, i. 405. Goethe's praises of him, i. 412 Angoule'me, Due d', i. 132 Antiquity, worship of, i. 316 Aristotle, remark by Goethe on, ii. 71 Art, modern, i. 86 the sensual and ideal in, ii. 123 Meyer's history of, i. 101 Arts, method of cultivating a taste for, i. 137 Artists, religion of, i. 160 relation to nature, i. 401 representation of surround-ing objects by, i. 268 young German, origin of their errors, ii. 380 VOL. II. Artistic madness, anecdote of, ii. 191 "Aufgeregten Die," by Goethe, i. 120 B "Ballad, The," by Goethe, ii. 112 Bavaria, King of--his letter to Goethe, ii. 168 Beauty, definition of, i. 394 favourable circumstances necessary for its development, ' 396 Beaumarchais, "Memoirs" of, ii. 179 Bfhrisch, his definition of expe-rience, ii. 214 anecdotes of him, ii. 215 Beranger, his imprisonment, ii. 150 his personality, ii. 254 his political poems, ii. 255 poems of, i. 315, 343 chansons de, i. 350 his perfection attributable to the influence of his birth-place, i. 408 his political and love...
