The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... Goethe in Berlin . Erinnerungs - Blätter sur Feier seines hundertjährigen Geburtsfestes . Berlin : 1849 . 3. Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier . Studien zu Goethe's Werken . Von Heinrich Dünzer . Elberfeld : 1849 . 4. Goethe's Briefe an Frau von ...
... Goethe in Berlin . Erinnerungs - Blätter sur Feier seines hundertjährigen Geburtsfestes . Berlin : 1849 . 3. Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier . Studien zu Goethe's Werken . Von Heinrich Dünzer . Elberfeld : 1849 . 4. Goethe's Briefe an Frau von ...
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... Goethe in Berlin . Erinnerungs - Blätter zur Feier seines hun- dertjährigen Geburtsfestes . Berlin : 1849 . 3. Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier . Studien zu Goethe's Werken ... Göthe's Festival . 189 ing features of the 188 July , Göthe's Festival .
... Goethe in Berlin . Erinnerungs - Blätter zur Feier seines hun- dertjährigen Geburtsfestes . Berlin : 1849 . 3. Zu Goethe's Jubelfeier . Studien zu Goethe's Werken ... Göthe's Festival . 189 ing features of the 188 July , Göthe's Festival .
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... Göthe surrounded by every attribute of allegory , Göthe as Dichterkind ' on a griffin , Göthe as Dichterjüngling ' on a Pegasus , -dinners , polkas , illuminations , and fireworks . Yet it seems that the celebration , everywhere alike ...
... Göthe surrounded by every attribute of allegory , Göthe as Dichterkind ' on a griffin , Göthe as Dichterjüngling ' on a Pegasus , -dinners , polkas , illuminations , and fireworks . Yet it seems that the celebration , everywhere alike ...
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... Göthe . The cherished author of the higher cultivated circles had been represented with very little reason - as opposed to the poli- tical rights of the lower orders ; and with a good ... Göthe on his Age . 191 190 July , Göthe's Festival .
... Göthe . The cherished author of the higher cultivated circles had been represented with very little reason - as opposed to the poli- tical rights of the lower orders ; and with a good ... Göthe on his Age . 191 190 July , Göthe's Festival .
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... Göthe . The peculiar spirit of that age in which his mind was formed as yet clings too much to our generation , to render us truly competent and impartial judges . But the time has arrived , we think , when it behoves us to question ...
... Göthe . The peculiar spirit of that age in which his mind was formed as yet clings too much to our generation , to render us truly competent and impartial judges . But the time has arrived , we think , when it behoves us to question ...
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