German Ideals of To-day: And Other Essays on German CultureHoughton, Mifflin, 1907 - 341 páginas This book contains a collection of essays and sketches which showcase the literary and artistic achievments of Germany in order to provide a picture of the German national mind and character. |
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... soul - stirring strains of Wagner's music , who enter into the world of elemental longings , passions , and strivings contained in such heroic figures as Tannhäuser , Tristan , Siegfried , or Parsifal , cannot help un- dergoing thereby ...
... soul - stirring strains of Wagner's music , who enter into the world of elemental longings , passions , and strivings contained in such heroic figures as Tannhäuser , Tristan , Siegfried , or Parsifal , cannot help un- dergoing thereby ...
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... soul - stirring strains of Wagner's music , who enter into the world of elemental longings , passions , and strivings contained in such heroic figures as Tannhäuser , Tristan , Siegfried , or Parsifal , cannot help undergoing thereby a ...
... soul - stirring strains of Wagner's music , who enter into the world of elemental longings , passions , and strivings contained in such heroic figures as Tannhäuser , Tristan , Siegfried , or Parsifal , cannot help undergoing thereby a ...
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... soul's salvation . Repent- ance seemed to him something entirely nega- tive and unproductive , a gratuitous and useless self - humiliation . Not through contrition and self - chastisement , but through discipline and self - reliance ...
... soul's salvation . Repent- ance seemed to him something entirely nega- tive and unproductive , a gratuitous and useless self - humiliation . Not through contrition and self - chastisement , but through discipline and self - reliance ...
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... soul for true enjoy- ment . For in spite of his unfulfilled desires , in spite of his consciousness of the fragmen- tariness and insufficiency of human life , he retained to his last moment the power of de- riving 70 GERMAN IDEALS OF TO ...
... soul for true enjoy- ment . For in spite of his unfulfilled desires , in spite of his consciousness of the fragmen- tariness and insufficiency of human life , he retained to his last moment the power of de- riving 70 GERMAN IDEALS OF TO ...
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... souls of a few great men ; men faithful to the legacy of the German past ; faithful to the ideal of personality held ... soul- were Kant , Goethe , and Schiller . Kant's ap- peal is an appeal to the conscience . In this fleeting world of ...
... souls of a few great men ; men faithful to the legacy of the German past ; faithful to the ideal of personality held ... soul- were Kant , Goethe , and Schiller . Kant's ap- peal is an appeal to the conscience . In this fleeting world of ...
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Página 99 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 150 - In Italy this veil first melted into air; an objective treatment and consideration of the State and of all the things of this world became possible. The subjective side at the same time asserted itself with corresponding emphasis; man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such.
Página 60 - Statt heißem Wünschen, wildem Wollen, Statt läst'gem Fordern, strengem Sollen Sich aufzugeben ist Genuß. Weltseele, komm, uns zu durchdringen! Dann mit dem Weltgeist selbst zu ringen Wird unsrer Kräfte Hochberuf. Teilnehmend führen gute Geister, Gelinde leitend, höchste Meister, Zu dem, der alles schafft und schuf.
Página 60 - Erden, In keinem Falle darf es ruhn. Es soll sich regen, schaffend handeln, Erst sich gestalten, dann verwandeln; Nur scheinbar steht's Momente still. Das Ewige regt sich fort in allen: Denn alles muß in Nichts zerfallen, Wenn es im Sein beharren will.
Página 62 - States to establish a passage from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, and I am confident that they will do so. I should like to live to see this, but I shall not.
Página 201 - ... others in still different postures and moods — there is not a figure among them which did not represent a particular individual at a particular moment, and which did not, without losing itself in capricious imitation of accidental trifles, reproduce life as it is. It is impossible in the face of such works of sculpture as these not to feel that they proceeded from artists deeply versed in the study of human character, fully alive to the problems of human conduct, keenly sensitive to impressions...
Página 336 - Wenn in der lauen Sommerabendfeier Durch goldne Luft ein Blatt herabgeschwebt, Hat dich mein Wehen angeschauert, Das traumhaft um die reifen Dinge webt; Wenn Überschwellen der Gefühle Mit warmer Flut die Seele zitternd füllte, Wenn sich im plötzlichen Durchzucken Das Ungeheure als verwandt enthüllte, Und du, hingebend dich im großen Reigen, Die Welt empfingest als dein eigen: In jeder wahrhaft großen Stunde, Die schauern deine Erdenform gemacht, Hab ich dich angerührt im Seelengrunde Mit...
Página 144 - The romantic form of art destroys the completed union of the Idea and its reality, and recurs, though in a higher phase, to that difference and antagonism of two aspects which was left unvanquished by symbolic art.
Página 97 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things. If he cannot rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist, and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind, — the burden of truth to be declared, — more or less...
Página 103 - A rule of one art, or a law of one organization, holds true throughout nature. So intimate is this Unity, that, it is easily seen, it lies under the undermost garment of nature, and betrays its source in Universal Spirit.