About the Book
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. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...of the upper world. This afforded Goethe an opportunity for giving expression to that rebellion against erudition, pedantry, and routine, and to that enthusiasm for native feeling and genius, which run riot in the writings of the adherents of Sturm tinb Drang. P. 87,1. 13, Saffen, learned fops, pedants. P. 87, 1. 17, Dafflr, but then, on the other hand. P. 87, 1. 21, (r)ut, property, goods; not merely: land. P. 88,1. 11, tram en, properly: to peddle, to huckster; here: to rummage, to turn small goods upside down. P. 88,1. 14, Den, refers to SJlonbenftyein, and is an accusative of time, meaning during which. Faust says that he has watched for the moon many a night. P. 88,1. 21, mtitn, float over meadows in thy glimmer, disencumbered from all the fumes of knowledge. P. 88, 1. 28, beftyranft, confined, hemmed in, locally. P. 88,1. 31, umfteoft, which a smoky tapestry surrounds up to the ceiling. P. 89, 1. 1, auSrat$, ancestral lumber stuffed in--an accusative absolute. P. 89, 1. 4, flemmt, is anxiously jammed, or compressed, in thy bosom. Not "flutters" (Hayward). P. 89,1. 8, ba$inetn. This word is here to be understood as a relative, unto which God created men. P. 89, 1. 17, (c)eelenfraft, then rises the power of the soul, enabling thee to know how one spirit speaks to another. P. 90,1. 6, S$uler, disciple, "acolyte" (Hayward). P. 90, 1. 7, SNorgenrot$, morning red, i. e. the dawn of spiritualism, or the initiation into the secrets of the spirit world. There is no necessity for supposing a reference to Jacob Boehme's book, Aurora. P. 90,1. 12, Stmer, buckets. This figure is taken from an old fable in which day and night are compared to two buckets, one of which is always above, the other in, the well
