 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 456 pages
...very properly, restores to the year 1773, as Boie's Annual for 4 1774 contains the Mahomet's song, — all that was written, except the plan. Goethe has...fact, noticeable in the biographies of genius, that •-. very man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, and must... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...nor are horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...nor are horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 548 pages
...nor are horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1872 - 554 pages
...horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that eveiy man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, muat place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 418 pages
...Schafer, very properly, restores to the year 1773, as Bole's Annual for 1774 contains the Mahomet's Song. Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this...contact with the lower world, and must place himself on ifs level in order to influence it, and thus compromises his higher aims, and finally forfeits them.... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Authors, German - 1885 - 498 pages
...Schafer, very properly, restores to the year 1773, as Boie's Annual for 1774 contains the Mahomet's Song. Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this...to realize a great idea comes in contact with the low- I i .-.: OdK » f4** -.... l! . -hi.• ' •s• . ;«•: :*:-$..«. ^V *ff ' B&.''$«&+ t;... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Religions - 1888 - 570 pages
...nor are horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that every man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - Christianity and other religions - 1899 - 552 pages
...horrors wanting." Goethe intended to write a drama upon Mohammed, to illustrate the sad fact that eveiy man who attempts to realize a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, must place himself on its level in order to influence it, and thus often compromises his higher aims,... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1902 - 848 pages
...very properly, restores to the year 1773, as Boie's " Annual " for 1 774 contains " Mahomet's Song." Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this...biographies of genius, that every man who attempts to realise a great idea comes in contact with the lower world, and must place himself on its level in... | |
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Goethe has narrated in full the conception of this piece, which is very grand ; he tells us the idea arose within him of illustrating the sad fact, noticeable in the biographies of genius, that... 
