GOETHE

His

And

Friends

Woman

BY

MARY

CAROLINE

Author
"

of

Romantic

"

CRAWFORD
Boston

Old
Days

in

Days
Old

and

Boston,"

ILLUSTRATED

BOSTON

LITTLE,

AND

BROWN,
1911

COMPANY

Ways,"
etc.

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reserved

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FOREWORD

Hardly
abused

been
is

crime

head

virtuous

by

to

the

up

as

various
so

all the

taken

sucked

triumphantly

liowever,

When,
of

poet's

these

and

and

as

could

so

Boswellize

His

little

very

his

works,

the

he

he

as

had

passed

tion
fact-founda-

the

it

he

lie

to

declared,

But

volume

one

Dichtung

the

tuted
constiwas

Goethe

been

have

in

"

nothing

which

itself

confesses

autobiography

for

extenuated.

even

is bound

way.

finds

in

refer

to

which

them

in

his

at

career

from

was

scarcely

life;

then,

one

confession

great

wont,
his

genious
in-

less
Remorse-

hurled

searches

Philippics

has

by

"

adjectives

ruthless

one

words!

own

one

poet

his

he

which

his works

whom

that

upon

or

oranges

sweetness

There

guilty, too,

are

with

women

many

life

who

critics

of

has

history

Goethe.

as

category

gentlest

the

among

literary

proved
his

from

citations
is

the

and

"

all

malignity

in

accused

been

in

man

such

with

scarcely

not

great

any

cealed
con-

was

expected

to

regard

we

as

well

as

Wahrheit.
It

the
Goethe

has,

therefore,

following
and

pages,

the

women

seemed
to

to

set

he
V

me

forth
knew

worth
the

rather

whUe,

in

facts

about

than

any-

FOREWORD

body's (even his!) interpretation

personal

extraordinary

surrendered

him

knew

certainly
it.

his

did

He

wild

so

oats

was

quite early, he
the

to

his

the

had
could

and,

by

Goethe
of

standard

being baffled

Faust

his

necessary

beyond

his

to

the

The

truth

our

him.

For,

gifted

man

who

worth, he

preferred

He

he

the

and

for that

than

The

world

and

sciously
con-

reason

we

by far

but

the

Goethe

who

is

of most

of-

us

of

selfleaves
of her

renouncement

highest development

So,

worse

self-indulgence

understand

thinks

and

judge his egoism.

call it

be

to

rather

exclusively

to

comprehension

calls forth

ful
youth-

something

heart

commonly

could

because

Frederica

of

only exemplar

of
self-flagellation

and

regard

superfluous wife he loved

by which

we

to

so

of his

wounded

deserves.

it

was

meant

he

since

devoted

by it, we

than

restraint

every

self -development

to

he

who

world

with

one

such

being selfishlyegoistic.

is the

career

Here

all

period

the

consciousness
df

by

chosen

but

like

help loving but

possesses

young

had

feel that

to

came

life in the

away.

names

The

short

actively hampered

no

his charm.

very

passively hampered

have

that

Even

appearance

not

rode'

magnetism

choose.
a

world;

governs

to

if he

oyster

not

facts.

overflowing lovingness and

such

of

man

"was

of the

character
and

fore
there-

abuse.

is, however,

that
vi

Goethe, far from

being

FOREWORD

bad

by

man,

the

moral

whose

standards

be

can

love

on

the

for

convinced

Retribution
as

because

as

much

he

He

wrong.

in forms

poetic rendering of
life and

Professor

also

Bojanowski,
Weimar

there

came

he

is, of

various

this

due, and

of

the

into

my

vii

very

ingly
madden-

were

little sensual.

so

Goethe's
in his later

Perrin

for
of

his

Grand

while

to

in

help

works.
to

Ducal

kindly cooperation
hands,

be

to

indebtedness

my

the

well

temptation

gladly rendered,

Director
for

himself

course,

greatest

are

and

kept

episodes

Livingston

am

(as

believed

which

Faust

him

again

surface,

of

on

Sin

saint," but

and

acknowledge

Marshall

are

at

which

hereby

to

he

that

the

these

understanding

Thanks
von

of

Part

things

"

often

but

because

was

no

again

on

dwell

to

women

what

from

and

because,

Second

real

however,

him

subtle
The

did

man

to

it

egoist)

an

was,

passionate
beckoned

was

he

as

other

that

always

were

seven

religious training played

and

this

to

made

lady

place

one

crime

he

that

married

the

and

is not

greatest

was

is not

Goethe's

relations

personally

to

years,

Weimar
evil

there

the

him

against

This

which

"

liaison

moral

"

declared,

ten

senior.

part
his

had

proved

paper,
his

years

has

In

with

judged

man,

time.

own

stagnant

Schiller

but

which

of his

was

women

of them

the

astonishingly good

an

atmosphere

of whose

in

was

Herr
brary
Li-

through

there,

much

FOREWORD

Goethe-material
Mrs.

generally inaccessible;

Emma

final

D.

proof-reading;

eminent

Goethe

and

quotation

kind

people

Weimar

from

stranger

her

difficult task.
indebtedness
for

enormous;

specificallyin

"

"

Life

of

"

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for

for

A
the
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used

to

are,

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Mother

for

Company

George
For

from

the
unless

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Calvert's

to

otherwise

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of

pany
Com-

and

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Com-

S.

Gibbs'

the

Lothrop,

translation

voltmie

"

which

Charlotte
the

indicated,

lations
transown.

my

M.

Boston,

P.

ence
Correspond-

part, however,

most

E.

Edition

Alfred

and

to

the

use

Mead

Dodd,

of

wonderful

Library

"Goethe's

cited

passages

Goethe's

in

"

to

here

works

also, due

Houghton

from

course,

I wish

But

numerous

London

the

to

Child;

Shepard

appeared
von

their
"

is, of

acknowledged

been

are,

of

performance

permission

given

extracts

on

and

from

assisted

Bielschowsky's

to

for

suggestions

generously

the

Thaiiks

Goethe;

With

Lee

and

the

other

book.

to

in the

many

the

it has

friend,

Bode,

literature

of the

body

Company

quoted

work

the

Goethe.

"

Button

Goethe

most

Duntzer

Heinrich

so

in

deep obligation

declare

to

the

me

the

to

who

to

helped

valuable

for

overseas

my

Wilhelm

and

privileges

in

has

Dr.

to

authority,

the

My

who

Marean,

to

C.

C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTEB

FAGB

FOKEWOHD

I.

Boyhood

Days

Frankfort

in

1
...

II.

Goethe's

Sister

Cornelia

18
...

III.

His

Leipzig

Sweetheart

33
....

IV.

The

Friend

with

Soul

Beautiful

the

51
.

V.

Goethe

His

and

Beatrice

73
...

VI.

VII.

VIII.

Who

Charlotte,

Cut

Bread

136

Stein

von

.167
.

X.

108

LiLi

Charlotte

IX.

Butter

and

Aja

Frau

In

214

Italy

Angelica

with

Kauffman

256
.

XI.

XII.

Christiane

295

Goethe's

Duchesses

Two

320
....

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

350

Bettina
Minna

376

Herzlieb

Marianne

Willemer

von

392
....

XVI.

The

Last

Poet's

Love

.416
.

XVII.

Weimar,
Index

the

City

of

Goethe

429
.

449

LIST

OF

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAOB

Charlotte

The

Frontispiece
'

Puppet

Theatke

6
.

Goethe's

Father

Goethe

Jewish

ii

portrait

May

by

26

Goethe

CoRNEUA

Two

Inn

the

lo

Frankfort

at

from

Frankfort

at

Quarter

Goethe,

Mother

and

House

views

of

Garden

the

Goethe

where

Goethe

26

and

at

lodged

Frankfort

the

in

house

to-day

27

Leipzig

34

Silhouette

the

34

Schonkopf

Katharine

35

Oeser

Frederika

35

Auerbach's

Keller,

Charlotte,

her

Fraulein

Leipzig

husband

42

their

and

children

43

....

Klettenberg

von

S4

eckermann

ss

Cathedral

Strassburg

View

Goethe,
Frederika

Charlotte

Cathedral

Strassburg

from

Frederika's

Goethe

72

home

and

from

IN

73

82

Sesenhedi

83

Frederika

the

awaiting

cutting

bt

portrait

88

Rabe

89

Goethe

bread

and

butter

xi

no

LIST

OF

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

WeRTHER

LOTTE

and

Goethe

Skating

Goethe

Roche

130

Brentano

131

Lili

and

148

August

Kaio.

149

Scbroter

Corona
Schiller

at

Duchess

Louise

Charlotte
"

Frankfort

at

La

Maximiuane

Ill

149

Court

the

or

176
177

Stein

von

Portion

Weimar

or

the

186

castle

Kochberg,

at

prom

drawing

by

Goethe

186

Goethe's

Garden-House

Goethe

acting

Weimar

at

before

187

Court

the

Weimar

of

190

....

Royal

ladies

Charlotte

the

garden

Stein's

von

Goethe's
Frau

in

house

in

home

at

Weimar

in

Weimar

Goethe

the

191
210

-Platz

211

Aja

Ross

248

Markt,

Frankfort,

showing

the

later

home

Goethe's

of

mother

'^\\-H^r'

249

Goethe

Rome,

outside

after

the

painting

by

Tischbein

260
.

Angelica

Kauffman,

Christiane,
Angelica

portrait

by

260

herself

Hamilton,

from

261

portrait

the

portrait

by

by

Angelica

Reynolds

261

Barbara

Kauffman

268

269

Romney

by

Riggi,

drawing

Maddalena

from

Goethe

by

drawing

.272

Schulthess

Christians
Goethe

Goethe's

from

from

the

Kauffman,

Goethe,
Emma

from

and

Vulpius,
his

son,

272

from

from

drawing

painting

by

by

xii

Hans

Goethe
.

M.

.273

Schmidt
.

302

OF

LIST

ILLUSTRATIONS
FAOB

Garden

Goethe's

of

town

house

Weimar

in

303

....

Duchess

Anna

Amalia

324

Tiefurt

325

Belvedere

to-day

Ettersburg
Karl
The

330

to-day

331

August

336

evening

Madame
The

circle

Bettina

364

Bettina

365

Aknim

365

von

Minna

337

Stael

de

Child

Amalia's

Anna

at

Herzueb

380

Ottilie

von

Goethe

380

August

von

Goethe

381

Marianne

Willemer

von

Christiane

Neumann

Christiane

Vulpius

Goethe,

394
394

the

from

394

painting

by

Heinrich

Kolbe
.

Ulrike

Levetzow

von

416

Schiller

417

Goethe

in

Goethe

and

Room

in

his

Fritz

Goethe's

of

Schiller

house,

438

died

439

garden-house

442

room

"

to

Karl

Stein

showing

Furstengruft,

Goethe

von

Goethe

which

leading

438

study

Interior

Steps

395

Schiller

the

which

Haus

Romische

the

"

in

poet

died

Weimar's

443

446

park
.

Goethe

where

in

and

August

monument,

Schiller

lie

buried,

side
be-

446
Weimar

xiu

447

GOETHE
HIS

AND

WOMAN

FRIENDS

CHAPTER

BOYHOOD

To

the

mothers

of

their

In

the

of

case

whom

loving

called

for

to

in

the
her

of
sake

own

regard;

of

the

her

soon

and

most

appreciative
has

is

with

real

the
is

the

Elizabeth

engaging

figures
1

doing

who

of

Textor

all

was

honour

the

woman

merely

with

in

and

she

as

of

place

it
of

interest

of

same

about

woman

Rath,

sake

sideration
con-

friends,

admiration

took
it

Here

Frau

the

son,

Katherine

For

one

for

Frankfort,

mother

the

renown

inconsiderable.

Goethe's

Among

that

the

personality

save

out

assumed
to

however,

write

seek

is

means

formal.

or

enthusiasm.
wont

were

no

mother's

his

it

world

the

men

women

by

Goethe,

cannot

one

these

been

forced

nothing

famous

because

of

has

sons

FRA.NKFORT

most

tribute

of

to

of

contribution

the

IN

DAYS

graceful

pays

the

Goethe

literary

ventional
con-

rapher.
biogis
his-

tory

and

taste

in

"

and

bring
wish

long

so

if

cried

they

for

looking

without

and

made

every

faces,

wry

they laughed

why

reason

any

ones

good, and

were

or

fit to

been

little

my

teristic
charac-

with

never

I gave

For

they laughed

as

them

whipped

"

child.

up

had

she

that

frankness,

to

together,"

young

added

she

fast

held

always
both

Then

remarked.

once

comrade.^

and

confidant

were

we

rare

friends., made

women

have

Wolfgang

my

other, because

each
she

lifelong

his

had

who

poet

his

of

selection

the

that

wonder

no

mother

his

of

it is

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

AND

GOETHE

or

cried."
The

whippings

This

(she

girl-mother

Goethe

she

by

was

which

spell bliss

colic

afterwards,

and

the

be

not

all

"
"

of

himself
Sie

war

careful

that

and

raid

des

she

the

of

said
Lebens

in

adored
the

of

her
werth

in
"

sweets

family

her

old

away,

which

in

1814, when

(she

was

mother

orders

her

is

pantry

age.

her, that

of

tortures

Goethe's

raisins

"

the

detailed

gave

whom

the

Apprenticeship

on

even

ciple;
prin-

on

securely locked

be

in Meister's

die

sparing

'Goethe

children

moment

should

sweets,

to

servants,

the

when

eighteen

her

autobiographical.

liked

came

means

childish

undoubtedly

she

"

though.

far between

only

was

spoiled

no

at

passage

describes

herself

"

born)

was

and

few

were

When
to

her

they shovild
funeral-cake,

he

reviated

worthy .of life).

fort
Frank-

BOYHOOD

she

as

could

never

directed
festive

occasion.

party

the

on

"

engaged

Goethe

might

of

made

life

him

she

"

Lebens

Von

the

poet

added

at

less

heritage
"

of

highly
of

philosophy

mother's,

she
not

to

sent

the

come

as

his mother

of

the

his keen

qualities which

Frohnatur,

fabuliren,"

'

zu

he

And

the

than

it may

well

as

his

valued

always

Ufe

"

be

paternal

gift of writing

cheerful

Statur,

and

which

was

28,
"

calls her

"

in

bom

was

1749,

and

that

bold

favoured
"

"

From
To

Holt

lady

and

came

serious

mother

joy

in

later

years

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father

And

Richard

some

him

From

Frankfort-on-the-Main,

my

the

Bettina

"

as

"

his

world

at

impelling;

zest

for Life, the

game

story-telling."

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Goethe

and

His

von

large with

sturdy frame,

tasks

gust
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Hutton

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)

the

dower.

Goethe

Amim,

go

Fuiiren;

die

himself.

that

once

to

to

ich die

emstes

Lust

wrote

last

this

on

dying."

most

Miitterchen

Die

likewise

served

could

in

hab'

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Des

She

it

artist.

great
Vom

life and

invited
her

attribute

and, indeed,
a

been

then

her

be

to

were

Goethe

just
well

in
grave.

breathed

Madam

was

love

in her

Having

day

that

answer

her

FRANKFORT

that

of wines

kind

what

IN

endttre

certainly chafe

would

she

DAYS

7
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graphic description

his entry

into

you

She

then

was

married;
remain

young,

old, since
the

you

you

mother

heavy

the

had

the

in

you

of

with

Your

grandmother

he

wine,

opened
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lives ! '

lived

since

hour,'
seventh
This

Then

then

said

the

tray, and

that

stood

behind

eyes,

she

awoke

mother

pit

to

me

in

of

your

existence.

the bed.

enthusiasm

laid

They

When
*

maternal

my

through
appeared

of your

exclaimed,

yotir

necessity

you

the

it

about

and

bathed

into

caused

sign of life.

in continual

your

become

mother

anger

midwife,

year

always

never

and

quite despairing

your

would

nature-home

without

heart

first

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one

consider

you

world,

from. your

and

old, and
you

lation,
trans-

hangings.

of your

did

the

(the

checkered

would

youth

days

hours.

butcher's

heart

mother

your

writes

remarked

your

ill-treatment

quite black

blue
years

and

you

in which

she

entered

driven

had

bed

had

attending

circumstances

world," she
"

Three

bargain.

before

the

seventeen

hereupon

FRIENDS

WOMAN

The

the

hers),

is

too,

of

"

life.

upon

brought

HIS

AND

you

Daughter,
heart, and

to

her

this very

seventy-

year."
wealth

lavished
children

exception

almost
bom
of the

of

maternal

solely upon

love

Wolfgang,

later, all died

daughter
'

soon

in

Eighteen, really.
4

be

for of several

infancy

Cornelia, and

to

came

with

the

she, Goethe's

In

that

Goethe

Wahrheit,

und

tung

fell heir

then

Cornelia

relates

how

father's

their

to

Dich-

autobiographies,

of

chaxming

most

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

AND

GOETHE

he

and

pedagogical

zeal.
there

Happily,

pedantic

parent

able

was

children.

his

to

all things ItaUan,

tour

in

life.

his

south-land

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10

JEWISH

QUARTER

OF

FRANKFORT.

BOYHOOD

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love

Wahrheit.
in the church

episode incidents
14

utilized

in Faust.

for

BOYHOOD

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15

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perfectly innocent, he,

But

with

of

dream

joyous

Wolfgang

Even

beautiful

Goethe's

the

For

been

had
blow

one

love.

young

FRIENDS

WOMAN

what

to

in

shattered

idyl, and
sweet

HIS

AND

me,

sake

babe,

I
of
and

something

poet, however,
with

Gretchen,
Faust

and

II

CHAPTER

GOETHE's

It
he

in

was

another
of

love

with

twentieth

century

in

eighteenth,

the

in

brother,

"

place

her

as

would

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abbess

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and

in
in

be

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in

sisters."

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as

children;

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career,"

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see,

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realize

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shall

we

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she

and
them.

her

died

band,
husat

the

twenty-seven.
maintains

his

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to

(his

parents
true

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recognized,

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to

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to

than

for

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character

convent

affair

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Sainte-Beuve
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tragic,

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herself

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praise

woman

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her

analyze

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misfortune

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to

the

the

woman

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mann,

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during

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out

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whenever

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woman,

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Gretchen,

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one

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whom

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was

CORNELIA

sister

this
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the

certainty,

mother

was

superior

man

at

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of

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and

least
and
his

GOETHE'S

mother

have

we

their

boy,

sixteen

devotion

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effect

of

would

"

began

all she

no

when

jealous
which

he

father,
which

had

lived

and

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these

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Goethe

given

them

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their

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in

the

two

by

their
^

puppets

mother,
grand-

fond

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was

cradle

the

they planned

writes
"

was

thus

natural

the

joyous
of

grind

figures,docile

me

year

the

may

still be

of Goethe's

seen

in

the

plays.

life with
ties.

motive,

position;
Museum

linger long before

first

19

forcible

than

closest

domestic

our

visitors

of

the

by

acted

in Dich-

younger

period

added

from

in Frankfort;
actors

to
was

causes

puppet-theatre

always
himself

poet

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bound

proceeded

house

the

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whole

my

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me,

'

manipulated

strongly,"

me

which

records,

inflicted

they

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tortures

they

her, and

of

out

the

than

both

nurse

her."

together

sister

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tung und

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period.

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upon

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playtime

untimely

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of them

feed

to

pedagogical

and

"

mother

was

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wonderful

alike

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little

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that

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together
had

even

have

she

the

Cornelia's

until

two

watched
the

siiffered

"

the

one

along

than

join

to

relationship inevitably

wanted,"

wished

when,

came

to show

once

close

otherwise

and

seen;

there

lasted

making

CORNELIA

younger
at

which

death.

her

months

lad

the

already

communion,

happy

girl,

SISTER

its queer

of

the
little

GOETHE

father

who

he

because

brazen

end

of

building

yet, who

in

her

looked
life and

eldest

the

followed
; the

"

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brother

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whole.

and

singly
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since

never

leave

the

necessity
further

was

adhere

snatch

enjoyment,

which

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she
in

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she

"

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and

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to

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accompanied
first

with

years.

and

could

interrupted
un-

give

not

wishes.
natural

was

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close

that

mother,

of solitude

hours

so

of

they

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the
to

time

years,
20

sense

as

toil

as

were

recreation

sister,who

entertaining

me

and

moments

my

of

tion,
contradic-

pleasures forbidden

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especially for

house

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themselves

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to

sharpened by

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capable

eyes,

children

circumstances

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and

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to

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with

views, unshaken

and

mother

almost

three

enjoyment.

feelings,their claims, their

their

up

these

of

his well-

consciousness

healthy

his

out

the

and

hand,

family, increased

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in

education

other

to

up

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desiring present

father

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on

tained
main-

attain

preserving

children;

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floating
My

mother

tender

very

might

best

and

first grew

two

at

the

consistency,
he

but

meaning,

within

that

children

well

incredible

regulating

house;

child

and

his

up,

founded

and

sternness,

giving

FRIENDS

cherished

heart, externally, with

a

WOMAN

affectionate

certainly

grave,

HIS

AND

herself

could

could,
with

of longing

"

me

with

distance.

playing

and

learning,

SISTER

GOETHE'S

of

both

moral

reflections

the

enlighten
illumine
the

vale

all these

the

hand

in

their

strange

wished

close

the

and

and

each

have

been

Cornelia
the

loss

episode they
almost

of

her

had

Leipzig

and

butt

her

of

the

father's

near

of their

it may

compensation

as

didactic

to

affair

youth

Cornelia

21

their

up

pointed out,

has

one

after that

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the

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very

brilliant

to

as

nearer

sacred

marriage

brother.

drawn

endured

reading this, that

some

accepted

"

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as

not

rise,

to

clear

to

the

after

true,

immediately

pitiful climax

did

does

and

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that,

other,

forcibly

than

enlightened

less

in

all

springing therefrom,

the

condition,

more

and

sister shared

were

understand,

can

indeed

for

brother

sities
neces-

rather

it is about

aberrations

which

images,

obscure
over

and

ment
amaze-

of mental

sensual

covers

which

relationship keep

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from

approach

to

minds,

in

fog

that

impulses

themselves
which

physical

our

sensual

taken

confidence,

youth,

forms,

and

hand,

of

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this

of

to

common

have

mental

the

as

"

errors

many

of

these

upon

us,

the

intetest

in

clothe

which

well

community,

awakening

themselves

clothe

quite

development

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the

been

might

we

the

powers.
at

had

this

did

so

during

remain

"

that

so

us,

twins,

for

education

and

growth

CORNELIA

was

was

left

other, but

each
had

Gretchen

attained

packed
to

be

impulses, while

its

off

the

to

sole

forced

to

around,

cany

had, also, been

of

attentions
and

violin

wounded

young

Englishman

named

inner

pathetic

little set

of

neighbouring

city.

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lay neglected

among

whom

to

they

birth

they
edited

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to

came

have

worth

rather

.The
was

friend

of

cousin,
sister.

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begin, Goethe
partly
Cornelia
But

ere

to

little better

the

embarked

letters

her
upon

intercourse

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with
forth-

were

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are,

than

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to

stand.
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we

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are

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on

visit

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at

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to

and

come

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to

the

Goethe's

was,

aching

in

Frankfort

sent

were

this curious
has

who,

greatly love

Leipzig.

lonely

addressed

were

maiden

letters, which

is away

her

attention.

Fabricius,

know

by

of

and

letters

tions
prepara-

do, and

to

these

1767, while

they

in

the

Professor

by

able

whom

to

relieve

the

Leipzig

ferent
indif-

in

behind

during

of

from

these

centenary

in

careful

to

came

been

Katherine

summer

left

the

light

Goethe

otherwise
our

effects

halting though

us,

Cornelia

years

published

and

help

many

the

know

we

girl friends

young

sent, but

been

celebrating

for

her

the

had

that

diary-letters, written

of
one

to

played

is derived

time

this

which

ambiguous

who

All

Harry.

life at

Cornelia's

and

the

by

heart

presence

somewhat

was

French

time,

same

brother's

her

for

ached

which

the

at

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

AND

GOETHE

secretly,
indeed,

heart

that

correspondence.
an

end

Goethe

GOETHE'S

home

is at

convalescing

occasional
his

to

much-prized
"

illness,and

an

Cornelia's

qu'il [does she

part,

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opinions.

quand

que

CORNELIA

from

references, on

Katherine
faut

SISTER

of

fr^re

mon

there
him

to

these

loue

are

and

assures

quelqu'un

il

qu'elle?]ait beaucoup

mean

de

m6rite."
in

Monotonous
life led

the

in
father
she
of

ruled

with

similar

of

waters"

and

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other

wholesome

no

source

which

could

she

jouererai

chiefly of

ended

other

and,

intercourse,
afternoon

by

the

punctually

Cornelia
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of

pation
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have

to

appears

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upon

skill.
writes

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when

knew

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previously announced

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friends

did

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papa

show-gardens

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[she

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ces

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le clavecin

que

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scarcely

form

interests.
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is

some

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mild

ctuiously

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town,

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out-of-door

air

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each

un

Frau

even

the

of

end

have

the

position
lively dis-

mother

letters.

occasionally

agreeable

much

would

the

her

her

be

to

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from

the

picnics

denied

was

had

of iron.

of

her

which

derived

in any

approve

at

rod

shown

intelligence and

over

circumstances;

mentioned
not

fine

Wolfgang

comfort

is

extreme

house

to have

seems

the

girl of

this

by

the

who

made

eight o'clock
23

them,

"

to

which

(ten o'clock

was

AND

GOETHE

bedtime)

alternately,

family, and

Busch,

this

dite

same

own

mental

afforded

for

meeting

only

be

to

and

dull

folk

and

and

strikes

one

Goethe's
ball

Conversations
festival

or

afiEKcted with
that

eruption

an

it may

be

ascribed

as

joy

in their

in such

way

the

over

gatherings

after

in

reading
"

that

when

generally

was

influence

with

her

came

face, a thing

the

the

been

seized

Cornelia

on

to

this

quite excited

hand

at

was

thus

felt Frankforters

Eckermann

with

met.

Cornelia

have

to

showed

pitiftd,however,

as

city

like

seem

merriment

Her

in the

given

Cornelia

her

other

opportunity

probably

find

every

or

of the

brother

her

ball.

coming

dite

would

for

occasionally

we

prospect of

chances

one

was

the

Girl-like, however,
such

of

of anything

them

she

bearing.
avidity

the

caHbre

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adequate.

house

where

held,

were

concert

been

Goethe's

FKIENDS

parties
the

at

Friday

every

of Herr

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WOMAN

winter, formal

; in

Tuesday,

salon

HIS

of

so

odd

something

daemonic."
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made

comment

in

daemonic

But

this

behind

and

his

age

in

fates

did

conviction,

to

in

beneath

and

24

to

kindly
tended

turn,

her

belief

bit

as

the

young

towards
to

her,

make

shrewish

pettdance

in

certainty.

felt, even

mean

of course,

was,

own

grown

have

not

self-conscious
and

after

life had

appears

the

increasingly
Yet

brother

element

Cornelia

girl,that
and

old

his

of Cornelia's

is the

her

withal.
earnest

AND

GOETHE

the

was

Possessing the
at the

(and

time

same

eyes),

formed

features
not

to

repugnant
This
to

that

age

each
"

both

To

no

person

as

well

rejoice

in

his

bearant

and

mirror,

himself
be

arched

purest
thick

black
of

her

to

respectively

feeling

approached
in

delight

innocent

take

sexes

tractive.
at-

not

the

she

as

sight

first

and

perceived,

striking

least

at

was

brow

eyebrows

if at

which,

larger.

agreeable

more

to

other.

ugliest

apparently

combination

painful

themselves

making

this

soon

more

when

of

stranger,

she

be the

grew

and

contrast,

it

make

premeditatedly

or

pair

exposed

alone

not

to

feminine

most

prominent

and

time, which

contributed

but

FRIENDS

WOMAN

adventitiously

reaUy

or

of the

fashion

forehead

the

HIS

we

with

captious.

as

may

My

blind

behind

feeling
them

Poor

to

her

and.

since

kindly

his

was

in

Cornelia!

was

she

beauty,

mere

her

consolation

she

that

necessary

right

infinite

to

is forin

regards

disposed

possessed

point;

the

reflection

own

impossible

was

this

kindness

though

even

it

that

has

everyone

sister,however,

playmates

in power

that

hateful;

be

beautiful

maintain

silly on
than

her

most

figure

own

satisfaction

be

aware

the

views

one

understanding

more

his

existence;

an

and

can

so

she

to

sound

could

perhaps
stood

far

without

superiority

to

of intellect."
Have

we

26

not

aU

known

plain but

"
p
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o
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O

iz;

tn

O-

GOETHE'S

clever

girls who,

young

become

at

dance

right man?

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quite

earlier

and

almost

have

proof

became

of

sheet

in all

the

between

with
year

To

and

that

Goetz

in

the

when

and

this
of

that

the

gang
Wolf-

approached

Yet

the

sister

is

of

only

us

was

of

margin
and

1773,

more

The
to

broad

to

might

and

though
height

of

high forehead,
resemblance

unmistakable,

Cornelia

painted by

Goethe

while

each
more

"

an

they

extravagant

portrait

is

that

down

superadded

could

For

plain.

year

the

lovingness,

when

as

come

on

part

between

more

has

the

without,

constantly

more

the

he

borne.

for twins,

brother

particularly

be

from

on

beauty

great

unfortunate.

certainly

is

to

so

himself

pompadour,

the

is

May

pared
com-

in

the

1779.
her

really
apt

replies:

in

not

to
"

one

so

put

Je

who

Katharine,

friend

soothingly

are

he

Goethe

by

sketched

"

taken

she

of

resemblance

was

Cornelia

portrait of
drawn

the

been

and

handsome

violets

along

grievous

sister

twenties,

having plenty of

and

candy

gotten

years

his

of

loved,

have

burden

their

the

and

sake

gladly have

such, too, the possession

well

as

additional
in

the

brother, however

CORNELIA

like her, would

for

quite stupid

partners

of

SISTER

vous

of

letters

her

bad-looking
the

appears

"

de

ne

(it is thus,

27

plus

me

have

Cornelia

that

thing, isn't it), the

prie

to

our

was

friends

sensitive

faire

said

rougir

girl
par

Vos
Si

que

je

n'etoit

pas

Vous,

de

piquee

mais

sais

je
de

exige

manieres,
et

je

penetree

de

monde

"

love.

jamais

pour

que

je

eut

un

qu'un

crus

heuretxx

que

1^

pas

des

fond

du

tout

au

finding happiness

in

Ne

riez pas,

je parle

fait

souflfrir,
pour

de

trop

tout

j'ai renonce

mon

idees

coeur.

II y

je

parfaitement

je suis

mais

seri-

romanesque

Stre

put

ne

mutuel

amour

wish, however,

chere, que

adieu

pas

engagement

sans

sont

vain

06, remplie des

temps,

dit

me

ma

passion m'a

lui dise

ne

Cependant

je donnerois

ever

Vous,

I'amour.

cette

eusement,

of

hope

ditez

Qu'en

qid

j'en suis quelquefois

que

is but

this

all

surrenders

she

satire;

belle.'"

that

Knowing

un

coeur

je parle du

que

et

s'il

ne

enfant,

douleur,

la

votre

pas

Ce

dis aussi

Vous

Hre

pour

trompe

de

ainsi.

regarder

chere

ma

de

ete

exterieur,

mon

pour

bonte

d'oeil.

vue

la

fagon.

auctine

de

prendre

me

me

ne

j'enlaidis^

coeur

de

Vous

en

ditez

le

c'est

FRIENDS

ch^re, j'aurois

ma

vous

que

que

miroir

mon

ne

alors

je pourrais

car

ces

ce

WOMAN

m^rite

louanges
ce

peu

HIS

AND

GOETHE

revenue

de

folies 1^."
In

yet harsher
that

all, it is

sort

she

terms

beauty

is

dangerous

so

of consolation

responsibility of
'

"

it.
That

am

later, in

says,

Yet
ugly
28

to

her

when

to

look

at.

utter

lessness,
hope-

gift that, after

not

to

weigh

have
this

the
con-

GOETHE'S

solation

the

against

beautiful," she
merits,"

is

then

"

happy,

and

person,

inspire

it

how

husband

whom

but

I realize

For

where

would

that

love?

abandoned

romantic

myself, but

love

between

and

we

because

who

life.
was

in

me.

who

long

marriage
ideal

who

woman

the

of

ago

for

lofty

husban4

are

be

lived

before

the

other

man

of

One

of

sister

very

met,"

says

wished,

and

deep

she

loves

when

loveless

at

and

real
"

as

sister, who
29

passion.
good
had

to
riage
mar-

students,

the

can,

which

who

Leipzig,

sufficiently attractive

Goethe,
my

day

intimates

Goethe's

pitying

the

with

interest

presentiment

of

friend's

in him

was

sad

Cornelia,"

Poor

marry

some

circle

inspire

"

say

fulfilled.

soon

his

could

find

Her

ioimd

there

the

she

not

may

by searching,
fill her

only

can

time

this

woman

was

lost

horror,

man

me?
of

and

marrying

attractive

thoughts

of

left to

course

of

never

man

me

union

wife."

Again
her

with

an

self-

charm

no

fiUs

only

its

love

think

have
the

possess

find

moment

render

of

is the

all

only deep

thought

that

be

unmarried;

The

not

to

bitter

yet

can

me,

I do

should

for

about;

I, who

such

in
remain

not

to

be
loses

continues

seems

can

would

former

think

to

as

it

the

probably

ridiculous

conjugal love,

"

she

I shall

CORNELIA

pleasure

admits,

and

revelation,
that

SISTER

"

match

to

Here
as

steadfastly

rejected several
men,

to,

enstdng

The

the

because

she

always

be,

I may

to

he

felt

appointed

follow

to

"

district

^welling

talked

say,

which,"

official

might

wretchedly,
not

at

her

own

had
her

years

that
the

the

says

to

her

be

dignity,

but

all to

But,

Schlosser

and

sure,

it

been

the

unreservedly

on

are

gone

will pass

in the

30

Goethe,

desert.

Her

Cornelia
this

with

inability

to

the

man

same

was

Schlosser

her

that

difference, I foresee:

1773)

in

streak

to

wife

which

had

like

fashion,
there

wiU

render
sur-

whose

birthday,

slipped by

have

in

lay deeply seated

cause

eighteenth

her

nelia
Cor-

destitute, from

was

For

morbid

The

and

stately

expected,

blame;

write

was

society."

of

disposition and

future

ComeUa.

solitude,

his.

dence
Court-resi-

sympathetic

tragically unhappy.

become.

made

be

married

were

one

desirable

place,

(they

to

have

herself

long

soon

meant

good

the

for

must

sure

have

its location, of all chance

As

rather

society for

spacious,

was

of

kind

this

signific
in-

aversion

an

well

waiting

fairly

him

seemed

have

must

and

from

Bailiff in Emmendingen,

upper

had

she

had
as

was

would

getting

of

instead

in

"

was

man

congenial

and

was

but

offers,

engagement

appointment

This

whom

young

appointment

"

good

accepting Schlosser."

into

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

other

herself

allowed

"

HIS

AND

GOETHE

but

be

"

The

dream
with
many

GOETHE

The
show

italicized
that

eternal
consider

words

Goethe's

feminine
the

HIS

AND

fate

clarify this entire

marvellous

did

FRIENDS

WOMAN

not

desert

understanding
him

of his much-loved

32

passage

when
sister.

he

an(

of tb
came

t(

III

CHAPTER

Goethe's
the

in

began

Leipzig

in

selected

period

in

Rath

in

himself

could

he
Fire

and,

He

of

as

particular
continuation

native

city,

just

he

tells

and

"

familiar

with
inn

an

to

look
time

For
of

state

wares

here

things
and

ferred
pre-

in

which

what

this
und

saw

fair,

festival

he

Wahrheit,
before

belonging

me

to

my
I

traders;
...

33

the
his

present

annual

the

grace

called

of

been

tmiversity

him.

by

as

Gottingen,

about

Dichtung

in

us

at

well

as

particularly

was

presented

pleasure."
of

to

the

at

the

proceeded

and

spectacle

the

at

Leipzig

lodgings

serious

have

studied

accepted

as

arrived

would

to

go

he

had

son

jurisprudence

taking

arrived

from

derived,

had

introduction

had

and

to

home

studied

literature

(Feuer'^Kugel),

Ball

letters

Goethe

be

The

him

of

life,

subject

to

was

general

he

when

1765,

The
it

from

away

collegiate

Goethe.

wished

So

strong.

October,

which

department

the

residence

upon

father

which

in

of

jurisprudence.

course

the

but

of

enter

to

by
a

the

first

university

the

"

LEIPZIG

month

of

student

SWEETHEART

HIS

interest, but

me,

given

the

me

that

the

for

lacked

he

rarely

truth

"

in

ease

to

For
the
"

of

social customs

of the

to

lad from

the

to

new

learn

how

society and,
wit

to

know

instruction

charming
took

the

what
that

himself

is of

from

this

which

no

this

he

had

could

first

from
in

offers others
34

qiiite

the
in

he

he

the

to

of life

seemliness

than

rather

gave

refinement

to

prevailed,

Dresden,

with

college

any

there

But

is but

promptly

about

quarter

was

he

of

importance,

more

direction
It

woman.

advice

which

circle

of

and

clothes

modish

Frankfort.

bear

to

in

place

conscious

became

gallantry," and

peculiar brand

whose

well."

me

Leipzig

court

city
high

families,

good

set

in

the

handsome,

possession

he

But

spot.

letters of introduction

social
the

"

from

reflection

by

tell.

all three.

acquire

its

manners,

And

undergraduate.

with

into

any

above
forms

and

over

time, Goethe

first

and

the

to

soon

received

poUshed

perfect

that

entree

also

circle of relatives

Now,

their

in

handsome

went

My

houses.

uniform

had

of whose

was

before

appeared

itself
and

bustle

animated

countries

Russians,

I often

dignified costume

this

and

Greeks, for the sake

all the
and

Eastern

Poles

dresses, the

strange

much

with

booths

particularly attracted

was

of the

inhabitants

the

by

and

attention

my

FRIENDS

WOMAN

market

the

about

rambled

HIS

AND

GOETHE

will

good

had

the

get better
a

Leipzig

gracious,
that

in Tasso:

he

THE

INN

WHERE

GOETHE

GOETHE

LODGED

THE

AND

By

Kraus.

SILHOUETTE.

IN

LEIPZIG.

"

frage

his

chief

who

him

gave

well

how

as

it.

She

an."

Bohme,

Vombre

in

to

accept

read

himself

and

with

author),

her

she

brought

values

poetic

time,"

short

without

he

as

lifeless

me

such

not

at

himself

well

her

with

would

know

the

Leipzig
and

"

right thing

to

be

the
the

and

German

done,

were

ridicule

had

however,

to

ful
beauti-

to

before

her

In

compelled

even

career,

began

"

luxuriating,

writing-men

young

their

was

of

Bohme,

and, after

world

well

may

before.

was

time

Frau

woman,

the

we

who

foot
of

short

Goethe's

in

from

intimately
If you

lively joy."

all

her

drying hay myself

which

that

early

came

the

the

and

down

of

some

writings (which

had

ever

fond

was

properly,

juster appreciation of

at

and

after he had

whimsically,

where

about

toss

had

comments

mercilessly mowed
to

to

meadows

variegated
Parnassus,

him

of

woman

his mind

his

on

telling

he

than

wife

piquet

gracQ
to

up

strictures

to

Mentor

the

invitation

an

also opened

that, by her

believe

of Social

principles of poetic criticism, and

the

Frauen

ziemt.

deUcate, accomplished

bear

to

sich

Frau

was

how

was

high office

lessons

him

accepted

he

for the

professor,

instructed
as

bei edlen

nur

Goethe

Wolfgang

erfahren

genau

lady selected

The
to

du

Willst
So

SWEETHEART

LEIPZIG

HIS

given
was

death, which
he

withdrew

mingle
to

ask

whom

some

more

he

well"

bom

woman.

35

had

introduced

been

Schlosser
this

with

formed

wont

were

in the

Weinhandler
that

mean

the

in

he

that

travellers.

the

that

so

lavished

in

clear
"

say:

there
in

his

Goethe
is

Germany

clerk

Life

or

chop-house

wide

bachelor
or

hotel

which

it

wine

who

there

goes
36

her

the
the

The

dines

Goethe's
"an

keeper's
inn-

think.

us

very

Goethe, going

between

England.

previously

distinction

of

one

Goethe

have

to

of

family,

whom

call

at

to

cultivated

means

this

Works

became

in

not

landlord,

and

had

no

seem

makes

difference

and

or

.does

Instead,

to

who

would

and

soon

this

(at

he

by

was

Lewes

Henry

both

was

Frankfort

good

those

"

but

affection

the

as

Schonkopf,

one

lively

Katherine,

daughter
George

was

daughter

"

comrades

table d'hdte

to

inferior

social

These

occasionally let bedrooms

Gretchen,

on

discussion

words.

belonged

transferred

now

and

and

connections

Schonkopf

79.

these

wife

His

who

woman

kept

he

senior

saloon-keeper

of

use

who

poetic

of

house

Hauswirth;

bought)

be

might

whom

the

either

was

Goethe's

conversation.
at

and

Schlosser,

seniority had

Briihl, No.

ordinary

implies

of

among

meet

to

lived

who

set

staple of

the

George

years

advantage

literary

FRIENDS

brother-in-law.

ten

was

WOMAN

by

his

became

afterwards

through

HIS

AND.

GOETHE

family.
dining

to

on

For

custom

English student,
an

eating-house,

simply

to

get

his

pleasantly

pieces

writing of her

"

suggestion.

the

"

daily

her

saw

was

declares,
the

under

Autobiography

She

he

sprightly, loving,"

in

Annchen.

FRIENDS

WOMAN

this

out

handsome,

young,

of

HIS

AND

GOETHE

name

hindrance;

without

u/"

she

helped

she

brought,

boarders

in

visited

well

merited

its

played

brother

Peter

and

r61es.

At

outside

the

play, also,but

terrible

were

nothing,"
Then

her

coidd

such

the

'

company,

which

Schroter

Corona

playing,

Barnhehn.

bear

lose

the

forms

she

another

was
on

had

one

jealous
"

and

"

which

there

gained

My

passion
it

last

at

truly loved

member

this

38

with

lovers*

be

played.

Goethe

the

devotedly

hitherto

the

the

to

which

nay,

occasion,

piece in which

Annchen's

got

that

her.
of

fair,

delightful naivet6.

I felt

to

the

in

in

us

circumstances;

r61e

evenings

cause

with

first time

all

In

other

each

between
Goethe

not

assumed

tinder
up

the

the

theatricals

each

adequate

scenes

records

for

and

and

wn

without

"

during

cast

soon

noonday

occasionally

and

maiden

which

house, which

accompany

loved

they

of

little

private

pretty

first

to

piano,

gave

the

of the other

"

the

on

the

reputation."
flute

the

wine

club

guests,'except

good

company

Goethe

that

enjoyed;

least, the

at

select

our

few

by

which

meals

evening

warranty

Goethe

whole

the

indeed

was

was

the

prepare

and

drank,

to

of

heroine
acted

the

is

grew

capable
took

even

amateur

sought

theatrical

in Lessing's

Sergeant

Minna

Werner.

HIS

everything

could

not

But

it

SWEETHEART

in

possible,

for

LEIPZIG

order

agreeable

be

to

the

renounce

again.

her

late.

too

was

of

hope

...

winning

had

her

to

lost

her

really."

of

his

Katchen
affair

which

and

there

soon

in

were

Let

will

if

be

the

On

Hermann
had

She

and

and

excuse

went,, but

Hardly
I

the

to

asked

had

not

was

I been

message

Barnhelm].

for

the
She

said

to

for

to

go

peaceful

quarter

Obermanns

if

of

she
about

I insisted.

no.

39

Doctor

see

Schonkopfs'

to

Breitkopf

Fraulein

I went

three.

at

first time

the

I knew

there, also, but

were

there

in order.

the

to

in

so?

her

decided

so

furious.

me

I love

Ah!
I feel

Behrisch,

makes

Obermanns';
I

myself.

one!

loved

see,

must

dinner,

back

came

of

control

she

Why

life I wished

my
no

gone

You
when

after

hands

bite.

to

My

on.

everything

Sunday,

If my

what

regain

ever.

Heavens!

sentence,

one

...

moment

very

One,

ravings

the

mad.

love

about

Behrisch.

is

know

get

for

letters

from

am

in

was

damned,"
I

to

can

I will tell you

"

of

we

he

like

"

pen

mine

Heavens!
But

be

violence

the

sounds

1767,

Love

that

his friend

to

follows:

me

see

us

it in

time

chains, I should

made

have

in

sent
lo,

"

from

gather

may

he

madman.

she

we

November

dated
of

the

passion during

with
the

suffered

greatly Goethe

How

Breitkopfs',

the

of

frame

mind.

hour, when

an

had

not

Minna
She

said

some

[von
that

AND

GOETHE

might

flew

last, angered

spoiled

She

the

open

creatures

strange

me

to

understand

society

than

for mine.

gives

some

In

anything.
him

to

am
"

for

and

kept

she

of

thanking

for

me

when

he

for your

not

give

him
to

amount

grateful

am

teU

to

What

without

that

you

the

up

entire

rewarding

hot

day after.
cold

down-stairs

and

cold

WeU,
blood.
for

and

coming

her

conduct,

This

and

all

that, Monday

kept

day

Behrisch, don't
Heavens!

something.
40

"

home

expect

This
The

Monday,
I fell into
the
the
me

evening

maid

she

which

night,

at

me

so

me

brother

terribly through

me

she

girl

My
for

me

Obermann

and

letter

the

affection, treated

evening

racked

read

understand.

not

help noticing it.

not

me

had

my

Fraulein

that

fever, which

it in

'

to

me

him

at

mann
Ober-

more

forcing

her!

to

here

cares

opportunity

did

instead

offence

with

he

anger

an

such

gave

Goethe

if it does

my

Woe

follows

and

me

changeable

is

even

wrote

Fraulein

as

"

Obermann

that

and

it

could

me

Fraulein
me

coldly

He

spite of

be!

to

ran

to

to

yours.'

After

read

; it

is Herr

you

giving

ever

assured

to

message

it

gave

that

going

was

requests, she

my

are!

Hardly

why.

knowing

that

I arrived.

note

men

FRIENDS

hoped

pleasure,

my

broke

by

happy

How

over.

Obermann,

Fraxilein

to

note

WOMAN

and

there,

stay
At

leave.

HIS

came

night
whole
to

teU
sent

back

HIS

the

with

that

news

mother.

this

all my

at

news

ill.

when

That

was

what

is at

the

run

like
the

blood

boxes.

who

to

I reach

I looked
"

down

beside

little

very
me,

in the

gallery with

with

rage.

Sarah

[Sampson].

But

was

palpitating.

Now

him,

as

did

so.

the

"

comer

the

mother.

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I
on

were

he

could
that

leaned
41

in

Ryden,
me!

Fancy

thought

that
head

my

Miss

playing

were

not

box

and

forward

hear

or

see

my
so

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glass seeing

opera

an

Behrisch,

eyes

my

Behrisch

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Ha!

posture.

burst

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from

; he

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chair

her

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fellow

poor

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was

then

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me

"

far

as

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affectionate
up

She

box

her

comfiture
dis-

mind,

my

one

ticket

see

I asked

me

and

new

rescued
two.

she

made

cannot

lose

lend

to

foimd

box.

girl.

now!

But

"

how,

and

her

had

he

that

take

glass.

side

my

I didn't

myself

Ha!

and

was

That

seat.

get my

that

saw

I knew

found

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at

theatre.

at

play!

loved

it be

dress

I should

thought

she

her

and

the

at

them!
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weak

are

eyes

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"

my

chill

one

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the

play with

forgive her.

know.
to

home

politely as

the

them?

standing

confusion.

that

How?

must

nm

was

fire.

was.

with

gallery.

the

going

it

madman

through

on

was

knew

the

to

gone

terrible; but

My
as

she had

she

play

tremble!

SWEETHEART

just passed

play

me

to

had

time

know

LEIPZIG

heart

that

the

girl who

ittle

Now

something

said

lie; I
Df

gave

the

for

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house.

than
and

will

to

such

it.
her.

see

abated.

for
us

young

tiell to

to

become
:

say

of

image

quarter

of

"

copy
n

;o

Die

this

Laune

experience

it

Annchen.

iealous
\nother

Verliebten

des

Goethe,

In

this

and

play, begun

Amina

he

has

me

muddle.

they

It takes

In

vain

does

woman

'

is

made

no

the

in

world

Eridon

this

turned

soon

into

love, celebrating

his ill-starred attachment

his

42

go

heaven."

unhappy

play

at

"

of

night?

easily be found

more

Characteristically, however,
'

this

I shall

name

yesterday

to-day makes

me

and

of Minna

hour.

an

Frailty, thy

pects
pros-

him

is all in

reconciled.

What
.

good

toward

rehearsal

frailty would

man.

out

ran

again! "...

up

at

'

Shakespeare
the

day,

next

for

only

were

me

I should

To-morrow

brain

My

on

tmhappy

name

coldness

her

night.

sun

alone

longer

weak.

very

and

more

I pass

shall

teeth

and

talent, such

just

and

thought

Perhaps

the

Yet,
were

am

Good

if the

Oh

"

know

How
.

he

chair

came

neighbour

advantages,
.

my

fever

moment

much

so

the

over

the

my

Now

nothing.

gnashed

you

silent.

keep

I dread

with

me,

to

...

man

leaned

glass

my

FRIENDS

see

Suddenly

and

full force

could

her.

to

WOMAN

he

him.

watched
with

her

by

sat

back.

stepped

HIS

AND

GOETHE

represents

sprightly

time, and

the

sweetheart.
reminiscent

AND

GOETHE

had

(and

many

so

with

and

she

play, and

he

respect
after

sought

love

her

to

counsel

mark

tier the

of his

continued
of

portrait

hastily sketched

on

too, he .dedicated
But

he

the

New

Schonkopf

to the

Kanne,

Goethe's

y^ears

wooing

of

the

had

and

unable

philandering
bring

dealt

to

birth.

suffered
to

which
a

much
see

his

sent

Cornelia,

with

the

the

To

her,

melodies.

at

in his

introduction
Gottfried

who

once

of

with
self,
him-

lover

Johann

Kanne,

from

the

four

was

fide

bona

house,

and

Wolfgang's jealousy
love

return

close, encouraged
44

on

her,

Goetz.

by

of

daughter

pretty

years

relationship

1768, by

senior, began

she, who
was

of

by

to

of

with

occasion,

one

sister

close

establishment

Saxon

carried

mented
tor-

her.

to

Goethe's

Year

he

of songs

unconsciously

was

in

collection

to

several

much-loved

love

death-blow

Katchen

soon

For

devotedness

proof-sheet

made

never

The

his

when

listened

on

in

over,
More-

he

and

of his

as

write.

sympathy

her,

his

interests

and

Leipzig

with

he

father's

well

many

all times.

from

which

her

as

talk

her

at

regtilarcorrespondence
as

work

jealousy and

or

departure

his

been

had

they could

always
by

always

Goethe

of which

common

of

too!) throughout

of his

companion

darling, the

FEIENDS

women,

had

Frederica

life.

long

WOMAN

uplifting friendships

and

liealthfiil

HIS

to

anything

except

Frankfort

would

Kanne's

attentions.

HIS

Even

the

wretched

acknowledge
real and

hopes

of

The
to

inevitable

end

much

his

beer

carried

much

for

marked
had

only

assistance

But

saved.

sick

very

strong

now

over

year,

was

strong

Annchen,

as

of

his

enough
he

whom

parting.

follows:

"

am

To

to

call

had

however,

and
he

journey

left

home

you
45

aid

his

life

without

was

continued

to

was

to

Frankfort.

he

remained

and

the

Medical

for

ardently

undergoing

refers

in

will forgive

he

StiU, he

invalid.

often

he

and
which

September

until

this fact
sure

his

to
room.

write

to

respect

illness, Goethe

next

not

he

coverings, proved

long

comfortable
to

in

his

boyhood

far from

self-indulgence,

over-strong,

of months

the

bear

to

in
a

and

of

hours,

hemorrhage

in the

couple

Late

1768.

Rousseau

enough

man,

enough

Back

pains

for

of

Leipzig climaxed

never

promptly,

came

in

scanty

of

slept

who

to

abruptly brought

violent

beginning

student

fellow

of

the

strength

had

soon

asceticism, during which

bed, with

by

the

of

constitution

seized

when

which

periods

precepts

hard

and

attacks

his

as

folly.

night

coffee

the

on

of

of residence

summer

and

out

sleeping

price

he

to

giving

was

increased

less,and

in health

by

recklessness

long

ere

Katchen

man

grew

years

on

alternated

be

His

forced

was

this

to

happiness

suddenly

too

that

breakdown

an

SWEETHEART

Goethe

deep love.

the

pay

LEIPZIG

one

me

to

the

letter
that

the

and

down
have

to

love

and

shown

will

arise

which

two

years

and

often

always

was

hoped

which

gave

you

good

often

will

you

did

not

have

of

for

miss;

what

for

not

occasions
who

for
who

family,

displeasure,

still

but

it is to

whom
least

at

all the

I need

man

constantly

your

and

should

do

now

of

you

comrade

lamp

thousand

cause

the

forget.

part

was

saw

have

never

remind

half

you

you

me.

thank

I shall

hood,
neighbour-

last time, how

Thus

then;

must

the

door;

the

again?

remember

to

in

was

steps, but

For

which

and

you

indeed

the

done

FRIENDS

the

at

friendship

me

beg

mount.

to

come

ought

you.

to

went

courage

I have

WOMAN

below

even

was

burning

of

leave

take

did not

HIS

AND

GOETHE

shall

be

miss

you."
Often

the
the

to

of

the

her

and

"

on

whom

when

they

in

your

"

to

this

Show

parents.

the
the

write

receiving

as

with

window."

And

beloved

as

and

father
them

Madame
the

beyond

letter

fort
Frank-

the

to

stove

warm

desk, Peter

addressed

are

pictures

the

from

sent

addressed

were

place by

my

frequently end,
to

by

the

at

Goethe

he

sofa

the

comer

Kitty

which

Schonkopfs

family,

sitting
in

letters

stove,
even

maiden
aU

have

the

real

...

my

they
letters

spoken

in

all honesty."

Yes, those
of

youth

were

anxious

unmistakably
for

46

mate

which

love-letters
found

their

HIS

In

less

from

And
than

of

himself

Annchen,

from

Fraulein

hers, who

hears

the

at

of

Schonkopf

He

news.

My

learned

have

what

my

due

were,

if you

can

dear

I bear

you.

doctor

and

commend

readily, but
the

to

forsaken

least
he

not

has

love

reflecting
subject.

upon,

much-

Writing,

loves

it

is

to

the

the

your
.

most

heart-rending

lover

who

cannot

unfortunate

so

other,

yes,

it is to

be

the
cast

devoted

to

less

speaking

at

other
out

him,

to

as

and

hope,

particularly
4?

you

readily loves, forgets

nearly

the

was,

friendship.

first still cherishes

hate;

joy;

your

regards

his

Horn

to

yourself

to

which

expire.

altogether

was

1769.

joy

is not

June,

seen

my

most

felt what

once

that

Goethe

my

to

one

Oh,
.

the

one;

dreads

that

heart
even

the

attention

command

picture

which

one's

see

still

is

readily.

most

sight

that

and

what

me

time

letter

and

heart

susceptible

The

ist

your

Present

love

great

her

writes:

happiness

your

friend, of

in

then

From

"

feelings

imagine

can

Friend

dear

departure

informed

has

"Frankfort,
"

was

is forsaken.
his

Goethe's
and

fort.
Frank-

rate, he

any

time

the

Kanne,

in

it is he who

is also

Dr.

to

engagement

pick-room

please note,

a' year

Leipzig

friend

Goethe's

affair of

this

in earnest.
In

SWEETHEART

Leipzig from

to

way

LEIPZIG

"

of

shuns

of

such

you,

has

AND

GOETHE

distasteful

grown

command

find

we

look

declaring

from

writing

to-day

FRIENDS

do

you
for

expressly

not

letter

no

from

me

that

short

one

again, I
I

should

had

Time

was

Now,

my

cient

should

when

think

of

When

side

one

nothing
hear

once

so?
.

regards
Were

to

I in
show

such

happy

scenes

your

the

be

mother.

it in my

of old.

last

shaU

Farewell,

Leipzig

I should

you

looks.
But

years

take

my

You

may

no

friend.

i8

half.

you.

you

not

Give

my

sulky mood.
at

your

remember

existence.

and

can

happy,

are

I beside

were

I
to

Do

seat

you.
stiifi-

For

pleased.

in

to

matter

you

to-day

years

I maintain.

agreeable

dear

you

otherwise

you.

that

my
am

I would

feel my
two

to

be

see

Three

provide

would

from

I to

talking

cease

ago

changed

so

nothing,

to

dence,"
coinci-

something

be

were

him

year

become

letter

you.

to
not

of

that

; it is

have

fails

that

altogether happy,
believe

could

curious

may

that,

swear

time

things

it would

We

"

longer remember

no

sworn

fill

of

prevented

has

It is

last

I wager

imagination

to

"

health

in his

taken

illness

the

face

year;

it is.

than

the

has

continues,

for

you

she

often!

letter

ing
26, 1769," thank-

August

only

her

to

saw

ridiculous

interest

that

this

"

dated

the

and

recall

If

me.

need

one

Kitty for

and

WOMAN

October."

Yet

ago

to

it, you

before

in

HIS

side
some

you,

O, that

Kitty,

I
I

how

could
swear

HIS

to

you,

LEIPZIG

dearest

my

SWEETHEART

Kitty,

I should

that

act

more

wisely."

is restored

body

also

He

tells

in

dream
be

to

later

months

Fotir

health,

to

his

which

Goethe

found

yet

taken

23,

1779)

to

Strassburg,

that

he

has

he

Schonkopf

again

tmless

"

continues,
And

When

and

you."
still

call

quite

clear

the

Kitty

is more,

doctor's

name

well,

that

ever

with

the

his, this

and

neckerchief,

I should

doctor

French

degree

miserably small

then

at

the

"

only
of

I could

wife.

as

between
49

with

lover,
one

may,

less, makes

if,on
still say

have

been

one

true

the

all;

have

bringing
Mile.

be, also,a doctor, and

[he would

letter

my

he

hope

What

and
Strassburg],

difference

name.

comprehend

since

letter, none

its close.

Elitty

see

I mention

inconsistency

go

Leipzig,

estimable
can

existed

cherishes

towards

S. !

I have

you

not

to

to

to

the
You

my

her

fan

be

have

girl,"this

estimable

always

proves

mind

other

some

Goethe.

"

obstinately

day,

or

will

with

That,

under

same

his

desire

no

(January

declares
up

"

had

has
This

returning

I mention

know

you

acquainted

you

and

I shall remain

that.

he

still the

are

he

of

has

he

nuptials

made

instead

that

You

for the

now

yet healed.

married.

Whereupon

place.

explaining

"

her

his

though

is not
that

Kitty

false alarm, though,

that

his mind

beloved
he

writes

S.

what

taken

after

all there

Madame

Doctor

his
is

C.

AND

GOETHE

[Kanne

is

K]

Madame

and

interchangeably

marry,

G.

us

Kitty,

"

Our

the

In

two

house;

have

desire?

more

back

am

happy

Kanne.

So

yearning

and

that

under
in

the

Mais

ce

she

Six

of my

ney?
jourI have

Then.

dost

what

town,

thou

for

Madame

long,

so

later, after

plus Julie,"

he

mind,

beloved.

50

had

on

the

wrote

above,

bond

had

no

Frau
his

of
him

drawn

he

to

this

Doctor

Stein, happening

called

in

be

to

definitely the

von

he

not

was

become

years

correspondent, having
well

have

after,writing the

has

hope which,

n'est

not

however,

spell of Frau

Katchen's

snapped

was

Leipzig-wards!

sure,

ances,
acquaint-

of your

again.

months

lady, for, two

learns

be

wife."

Schonkopf,

Goethe

would

Heart,

money.

To

What

you.

house

handsomely

all

if you
one

the

divide

taste.

me

If

house.

rooms

like

Kitty

will

as

for

court

years

ten

now

is most

whoever

...

Frankfort

really looks

Well, then,

me.

and

with

arrangements

whole

and

have

getting

after
it

We

parents

my

furnished

"

spelled with

Doctor

excellent.

are

between

FRIENDS

WOMAN

here
I

HIS

fallen
to

be

Doctor.
Weimar

doubt, Rousseau's

AND

GOETHE

rely

which

now

in

of

opening

her

infinite
thus

of

mountains

much

did

began

to

the

vehemently

be used

was

physician
but

the

At

averted, and

and
last

the

though

the

remedies
the

text

"

to

she

upon

the

5).
that

So

she
"

demonstration

by which
The

in

wonderful

52

as

which

Fraulein
medicine
which

secure

the

dead

finally administered,

patient

pious

first rested.

XXXI,

home

threatened

and

using

yet plant vines

sight

old

joyous confidence

hasten

very

violent

was

despair

eye

lately profited.

to

her

species of magic salt, to

had

he

and

her

remedy

new

had

tried

random

demand

to

in

(Jeremiah

to

which, when

immediate

better.

"

7)

bear

to

the

was

shalt

Samaria

Klettenberg

night,
an

Thou

of

at

which

her

to

this help her

Wolfgang

usual

need,

upon

comfort
"

the

away

utter

Bible

passage

led:

went

agony,

in her

Of

by

soul

Kletten-

von

home

Cornelia, unable

Rath,

the

of

crisis

Goethe's

(December

at

none

Frau

oracle

bound

birthday

which

brother's

an

von

assistance

in

of Fraulein

bedroom

relieve.

to

her

plan

on

his

pain

availed

the

the

needed

and

that

to

Cornelia's

internal

was

of steel

On

attacked

of

As

energy.

to

came

were

(1768)

arose

bonds

berg.

Works

and

Faith

Both

faith

so

and

latter."

of the

with

FRIENDS

readiness

former

the

sight aided

WOMAN

mother's

my

upon

HIS

worked

change

for

suffocation
could

not,

of

the
was

for many

FRIEND

THE

he

in bed

sit up

days,
was

and,

iUness

after

himself

almost

this

During

family

and

which

five

dyvag

had

books.'

When

schdnen

into

copied
Annalen

and

criticism

is

Psalm

wither.'

For

it

Klettenberg
still

should

blessings
wast

to

added

Her

of

1:3,'

did

me

to

53

shine

My

shall

also
to

not

dear

my

memory

and

blossom,

bring

dear

my

son,

preservation

."

for it.

and

God's

leaves.

to

"

words:

Thou,

the

mother

time, her

for the

thanks

thousand
seems

einer

Theologische

occur

unfading

these

of

influence

not

of

Meister

his

the

leaf

generations.

by Providence

from

and

un-

Soul)

Beautiful

long

so

soul

Bekenntnisse

His

green

grow

dissemination
and

the

following

certainly

after

of

pages

the

mendous
tre-

least

at

Wilhelm

in

his

in

found

one,

conversations,

that, after

destined

blessing

form

of these

review

of the

that

life and

her

Goethe

and

letters

friend

close

death, in

her

who

youth's expanding

the

(Confessions

Seek

Fraulein's

the

exquisite

earlier, exerted

throughout
after

thrown

of his

Klettenberg,

von

been

years

expression,

Goethe's

stage

largely instnimental

upon

continued

time,

the

that

was

had

been

influence

at

came
convalescence, be-

of

Fraulein

had

confirmation,

it

birth

who

hour

an

again.

of

Wolfgang's

from

weeks

period

spiritual nature

SOUL

acutely dangerous
few

of

quarter

past the

soon

BEAUTIFUL

THE

WITH

through Faust,

also.

AND

GOETHE

Fraulein

real

The

HIS

ideal

the

this

tend

death

view,

two

have

fall, iiiipliesthat

to

been

"

of them.

In
"

he

says,

the

felt

lives

in

the

to

seem

have

influence
their

was

Fraulein
"

But

Meister

original of

continues,

the

Confessions

her
"

"

two

Fraulein

offer

one

Vermischte

who,

the

to

and

against

out

always

though

there

of the most

sort

man

refer

of

nobling
en-

who
were

Schroter."

Klettenberg

is admittedly

Soul,' in Wilhelm

published,"
wonderful

Schriften,\o\. VI.,

very

of their

of this

Corona

Beautiful

54

ties,"
personali-

same

whom

life

ing
render-

circumstances

von
'

Goethe's

character

Klettenberg

though

the

The

formatio
in-

her

life I have

two,

much

the

upon

friend.
von

to

exerted

of

stars, shine

outward

actual

facts

in

Goethe's

of

attracted

especially

different

Hke

which,

deep-blue ground

the

the

of beautiful

galaxy

Vam-

one.

Klettenberg

von

only slightly coloured

asstmiing

considerable

Fraulein

concerning
happened

hands

diminish

in

astray

one,

light since

virtually

are

whose

into

Ense,

von

far

go

trait
por-

faithful
to

come

the

heighten than

to

not

that, in essentials, the

hagen

have

but, since

that

remarkably

rather

shall

we

is

which

documents

Goethe's

time, from

in

fairly agreed

seem

Confessions

in the
as

this distance

at

not

may

beautifully painted by Goethe;

so

commentators

and

FRIENDS

Klettenberg

von

easily be distinguished,
the

WOMAN

p. 33

et seq.

Von

Ense

evidences

'

FEAULEIN

VON

KLETTENBERG.

ECKEEMANN.

FRIEND

THE

have

that

we

even

in

foreign

of

this

but

delicate

these

serve

read

for

as

that

the

and
with

of the

regarded
the

Wilhelm
much

leaves

rest

Meister

which

painted

as

there

them

to

depict
but

martyr
has

to

still

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55

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56

26

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58

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59

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says,

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to

with

bed

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at

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she

relations

oppressed

and

"

the

hand,

found

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in

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nearest

soon

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was

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to

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society and
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day,

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people

durst

of

things standing,"

left

SOUL

him."

to

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I, however,

lasting happiness

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than

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"

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"

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conscience

my

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would

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definite

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him."

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oath

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attracted
and

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his
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to

speaking the truth

and

him

to

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felt

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an

and

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himself

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out

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case;

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tell her

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von

would

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conscience, he
was

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von
"

authority already quoted,

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find

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woman

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begged

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kingdom

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women

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his love

declare;

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"

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wife

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teacher

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its

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69

touch.

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Narciss

herself

fight

force

those

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the

above

all

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with

herself

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before

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for

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spiritual aspiration and

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blind."

as

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and

goods

fact

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beautiful

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never

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were

be

worldly

and

bridegroom."

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deaf

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to

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"

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the

"

lies
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illumination,

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to

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FRIEND

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know

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; it

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demonstrated

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one's

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own

best

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me

and

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as

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is the

Saint, this Beautiful

further

satisfying,

of

Confessions; "to

Klettenberg,

von

seriously

mingle

to

repentance."

this Fair

could

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she

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assumes

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capacities.

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compulsion

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put

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to

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self-sacrificing

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SOUL

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friend

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"

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needed

had

the

daughter,

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inspiration.

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devoted

in

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all-

goodness.
of Goethe

pasture-ground.

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having

of

years

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land
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twice.

remark:
self the

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piu:e

soon

doctrine

free."

71

as

one

and

has
love

understood

of Christ

one

and
feels

AND

GOETHE

felt itself soothed

such
to

life,and

"

of

and

for
a

WOMAN

uplifted by

the poet in the

that

give thanks
nun

HIS

the

FRIENDS

contemplation
man

friendship of this

woman.

72

never
"

New

of

ceased

land
Eng-

CHAPTER

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GOETHE

It

was

youth

saddened
illness

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as

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man

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already
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look,

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"

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his

own

through

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perceived

this

Dichtung

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73

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his

long

visit

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the

we

may

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then

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height
ings
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on

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"

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home.

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believe

to

picturesque

it

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well

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to

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hotel

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get

out

glances

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at

1770,

with

first

may

diligence,

musty

streets
to

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brink,

Goethe

admiring

2,

legs

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set

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handsome

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to

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a

love,

degree

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was

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attracted

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by

the

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AND

GOETHE

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'beautiful

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south

side

where

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and

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to

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handsome

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this
74

street

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enter-

youth

of

him,

help

of

things and

in that

appeals

arranged

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table d'hdte
at

proved

the
to

was

purpose

powerfully

so

the

on

long

this

for

which

movement

and

to

though

University

80

fine

passing
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him.
the

number

at

were

developing literary sense.

and

Rhine,

constant

was

being interested
colour

broad

dwelling place."

divert

ostensibly

sun,

magnificent trees, all having

assigned

lodgings

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meadows

of

of

windings

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now,

as

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to

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the
.

spot,

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not

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on

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me

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FRIENDS

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Kramera

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GOETHE

happy

decision
Dr.

was

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heart

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the

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at

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polite deportment

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friends.

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faculty for getting close

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to

and

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of

accomplishments.
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taught

had

sauntered

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balls

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already

were

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The

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of

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poet

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and

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winter.

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had

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pleasure-ground

no

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and,

to

he

dancing,

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days

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of the

quite

by

circle," he

of

to

assembled

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people

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and

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"

joyous

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father,

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to

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of

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to

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"

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a

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who

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handsome

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help

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instruction.

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in

tickets, for which

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cultivation."

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Goethe

to

him

daughters, both

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befell is told

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well,"

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practise myself

well

which

the

in

length

great

FRIENDS

WOMAN

catastrophe

sentimental
at

HIS

AND

GOETHE

did

told
not

the

Lucinda

love

time, Emilia, the

76

house

her

and
that

in

she

in return."

younger

sister,

GOETHE

attracted

so

lessons

'

cease

and

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of

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listen.

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do,'

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time

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to

than

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me

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become

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the

times,

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already who

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my

well,' said

you

of

expectations

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had

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lack

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possible for
me

to

myself.

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situation

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lords, and

advice

fortune-teller

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emphatically.

more

this

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you

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passion

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me

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him
"

by

BEATRICE

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already pledged

though

for

AND

manner.

hand.

towards
the

last

I would
my

neck

GOETHE

kissed

and

AND

my

bosom.

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this moment

the

sister, in

fast

to

between

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and

suspicion

seemed
"

She

spnmg

vehemence.

thinking
I

have

up

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of

you.

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words

you,

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neither
she
both

grasped
hands

she

have

78

turned

and

down
into

but

her

she

was

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as

Lucinda

but

me,

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not

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to

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me

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herself

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me

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self
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had

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and

time

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clasped

let

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take

to

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friendly

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me,

Emilia

face.

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only

her

and

open

position for

Lucinda

my

walked

immediately
me

into

this

myself

before.

of the

comer

in

which

sisters

for

room

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foimd

thus

away,

the

and

her

night-dress,

be

not

remained

said something

herself
the

Lucinda

earnestly

and

her

And

moment

flew

heart, pressed her

two

me

I embraced

becoming
shall

and

And

time.

FRIENDS

side door

You

my

cheeks

my

to

'

of him.'

leave

but

light

cried,

and

out

to

WOMAN

tenderly.

most

me

pressed her
"

HIS

to

With
head

pressing

GOETHE

AND

representation

the

that

marriage
they

had

and

as

was

sent

of

to

joyous

most

ions,
domin-

her

horrible

most

constimmated?

ever

hear,

in

the

perhaps

ghastly spectre

we

FRIENDS

WOMAN

first setting foot

her

on

queen,

young

HIS

is

It
this

meet

lady,

lovely,

the

at

if

as

tiers."
fron-

...

Afterwards

foreshadowing

time

there

old
of

of

Goethe's

which

arches

poetic

soul

her

streets

offer

by

her

"

the

and

dignified,of

was

in

beauteous

her

female

carriage,she

forth

such

of contrast

through

to

throng

which

there

old

an

Plainly

jesting

the

in

would

still

still

man,

it

as

visible

with

throng

been

most

pass

preserved

German

character

and

French

fashions

(rigidly

in

charming

as

have

must

queen

Paris, for Strassburg

"

her
which

train."

variety than
the

when

be

respecting
her

maidens

spring.

princess.
to

with

spanned

of

Goethe,

seemed

progress

garlanded

lofty mien,

meet

and

of

rows

the

at

captives

triumphant

nosegays,

yoimg

attendants

poured
In

the

But

made

beauty

that

wrote

dark

lovely fifteen-year-

flowers

the

vividly remember,"

recoiled.

the

and

with

strewn

bordered

to

had
of

in

this

queen's destiny against

envy

grace

saw

and

waiting

young

whose

who

through

the

only

was

princess
all

remembered

omen-lovers

spite of

80

the

followed

much
French

on

much

her

more

cities
way

to

-oi its old

importation
by

the

upper

of

GOETHE

classes), the
hair

their

maidens

in

in

abroad

tying
a

but

false

to

and

his

This

"

bearing,"

carrying

to

this

his

And,

friends

The

in

and,
exhaustive

which

Salzmann
all these

interest

to

youth

who,

affixing
propped

the

morning,

the

false

contributed

time
"

and

I got

arm."

my

his

to

of

desire

of

to

81

also

of
of

names

at

and

do

all that

cello.
play the violon-

ing
grow-

g^ves

them
the

who

us

an

were

Gesellschaft

before

founded.
of

are

Stilling,an

successively

been

accustomed
He

Goethe

years

Jung

polite

constantly

was

four

or

to

several

some

wards
to-

swordsman

learn

friends

much

gentle ^nd

more

excellent

first that

having

of

of

betray

frequenters

three

and

remain

to

should

by

had

Among

us:

him

fashion

he

began

or

which

to

the

in

from

an

description

students

in

Autobiography,

the

either

bag

under

of these

number

himself,

society

hair

"of

as

and

prompted

did, he

went

himself

became

He

to

declares,

he
hat

my

period

rider.

for

and

Goethe

the

restraint

me

wore

overheating

lest

This

making
in my

from

gestures

ornament.

by

early hour

an

still

back

the

him, took

obliged

from

keep

to

violent

bourgeoisie

in

magnificent

queue.

also

well

introduced

powdered,

up,

the

perilous brevity."

appear

had

up

of

BEATRICE

petticoats described

desire

Salzmann

HIS

long plait down

one

picturesque
his

AND

special

uncouth

charcoal

AND

GOETHE

burner,

tailor,

of

this

Goethe

him

handsome

youth

of

also

Weyland,

near

from

Strassburg

he

country,

and

journey
and
it

the

who

was

the

As

aU

sixteen

in

his

dress

withal,

occasion,

disguise himself

as

student.

Accordingly

the

poet

they

left

the

combed

inn
his

rehearsing

where
hair
their

primly
parts

the

over

82

their
ears.

the

back
horse-

parsonage

Drusenheim

Goethe,
rather

and

should,

donned

his

somewhat

man

shabby

miles

October

on

go

neared

they

daughters,

the surrounding

visit

figure of

of

man
clergy-

golden

they should

incidentally

quite

now

fashionable

at

of

decided, in- the spiritof mischief, that

was

also

was

boasted

attractive

splendour

daughters.

who

Goethe

to

that

that

proposed

things
anon)

as

company

two

now

with

bathing

were

of

more

village about

and,

him

the

neighbourhood.

and

Drusenheim,

lived

the

whom

Alsace

spoken

his wife

who-, with

days

in the
often

had

Weyland

to

Lower

may

ridictde

talk

(of

as

for

glad
Lenz

of

worship
from

to

bound

Jung,

him

of

connections

family

almost

Gesellschaft

native

now

earnestness

defended

and

the

the

was

quality which

same

felt

was

Herder

spiritual.
were

who

and

In

sect.

Klettenberg, and

von

imderstood,

fellows

FRIENDS

schoolmaster,

the

easily be

of his

WOMAN

fotmd

Fraulein

to

and

religious

member
man

HIS

this

on

theological
old

clothes

horses,

and

Then

after

two

started

GOETHE

From

AND

the

painting

FREDERIKA.

by

Kaulbach.

GOETHE

walk

to

AND

the

across

parsonage,

Only

meadows

the

old

pastor

in

cordially and

soon

join the

make

of

good

and

wondering

the

and

and

its
but

dilapidated,

fields, but
Weyland

"

bit that

again they all waited

she

Presently

full

national
and

skirt

furbelow,
Her

apron.

lovely

golden

neck.

Moreover,

saucily
began
himself

and

chatted

on

had

she

The
he

ill at

was

volubly

of

had

with

unprepossessing

tact

white

and

black

such

him,

as

into

student
83

the

task

and,

to

nose

he
of

guy

meanwhile,
and

the

result, from

the

this, threw

self
her-

cousins

tmcles, aunts,

her

saw

made

white

and

eyes

Weyland,

ease.

and

arm

delicate

Frederika, observing

womanly

short

her

Goethe

not

then

Frederika."

on

blue

minute

like, completely excluding

conversation.

of

on

merry

in,

quietly dressed

hung

drooped

braids

that

wish

to

hat

peared
ap-

and

tight bodice

straw

r6trouss6.

and

to

already

not

"

for

consisting

costume

taffeta

came

watched

simply

came,

daughter

served

were

and

mfe

had

talk

once

the

"

Frederika

Refreshments

retiimed.

the

elder

away

to

at

so

Presently

the

too,

them

left alone
and

the

of

rest

welcomed

was

impression.

he

interests

parish

the

having slipped

Goethe

"

soon,

home,

at

was

"

others

him

with

the

Sesenheim

to

old-fashioned

an

family being

in

BEATRICE

picturesque farm-house.

very

to

HIS

of

entertaining

their

common

GOETHE

AND

they

amazement,
on

for them.

give them

herself

the

at

ancient

Prayer

"

she

the

began
"

remark,

harpsichord

songs."

Swiss
her

then

voice

merry
"

Ei

ja,

he

and
to

him

just

exactly
In

immortalized.

story

of

this

tenderness

daughters
gone

at

away)

Olivia, the

is
Parson

off with

fault

us

of my
the

into

go

and

Alsatian
and

went

soon

my

the

night,
only delight.

ei,ja,ja, ja."

been

reading
with

the

family

where

the

Autobiography,

(one had

almost

told

the

being
84

with

elder

already

constantly
identified

seemed
has

the

is

that

Goldsmith

that

which

field
of Wake-

Vicar

like

poetic charm,
home

as

thee,

Beatrice-love

and

broke

my

they

dark

as

I love

me,

enchanted

was

so

doors

forest

ei ja, ei ei

had

Goethe

"-

hear

After

carolling

was

believe

And

of

out

from

come

shall

Maiden's

place.

the

let

teacher;

my
you

So

she

it is not

sing badly

of

nor

and

air

open

If I

soon

But

sing.

to

seated

performed
"

not, the
and

play

she

and

time

he

ought first

demur,

I doubt

particular

that

when

she

in that

put

sichord;
harp-

wovdd

he

instrument,

pieces, including,
of

that

and, without

song

the

on

played, and

begged

father

several

that

\lo\

her

Here

lying

was

if he

she

getting

themselves

Music

did

he

FRIENDS

fotmd

him

asked

that

confessed

WOMAN

soon

capitally together.
she

to

HIS

of

exquisite
the

three

married

and

referred

with

the

to

as

good

'GOETHE

HIS

AND

Frederika,

with

recognized

him

at

of

once,

begging

forgiveness for

the

before.

day

And

falling
the

winsome

the

whole

jest

on

few

his

by

it

But

And

only

The

which

others

chagrin of

"

Dear

if I

can

the

first

trust

glance
"

and

You,

good

and

show

some

favour

of

and

for

the

gentle
to

one

as

which
after

1770,

14,

elder

AH

hope
our

then

who

hearts

loves

new

you,
you

his
is

the

in the

runs:

so

for

mine

in

call you

to

of this

I know

sister

however,

one,

of eyes,

86

again

many

Goethe,

I dare

"

all

farewell.

say

following day.

This

the

awaited

come

October

language

charming

write.

to

by Frederika's

read

to

with

gaiety and

should

had

the

Friend:

the

had

letter

her

and

his studies

he

he

later hour.

new

yours,

that

Sesenheim

biimed

were

two

love

in

deeper

he

course

sent

the

of

Sesenheim,

aflfabiHty,his

Frederika

he

that

if they, had

at

maiden

soon

surviving

from

departure
that

of

between

passed

too

arranged

was

long.

ere

and

soon

as

as

days

and

golden-haired

however,

him,

was

hour

an

cheek,

years.

deeper

family

he

well

as

of

poetic gifts. Strassburg and

his

in

for

hour

every

this

her

on

and

course,

quarter

stayed

he

so

morning

talking together

other

each

known

In
and

laughing

were

of

dew

the

FRIENDS

WOMAN

did

friendship
will
will
so?

answer.

you

not

GOETHE

"

to

there

you

another
I

dear

Dear,

conscious

would

what

I may

by

true

here

in

much

winged

as

it

be

to

for

in

you

truly feel the separation from

you

that

steed

can

of paper

scrap

as

noisy Strassburg,

quiet, if

your

and

quite

unrest;
a

say-

wherefore

Thus

inward

side; and

your

consolation

write.

to

it is

but

exactly know

certain

something

question;

no

of

BEATRICE

I have

whether

gladly be by

as

me

be

can

write, and

am

HIS

friend, that

matter

now

is

AND

your

friend.
"

circumstances

The

if you

easily imagine
and

how

longed

thoughts

lively nor
"

At

shorten
of
the

marked

that

pain

my

remain

to

can

parting

at

behind.

mine

Weyland's

backwards,

conversation

our

you

so

you

neither

was

copious.
the

end

our

route

of

had

every

love

and

and

on;

of

in

characters

the

midst

to

us,

convinced

tale

to

only needed

we

princesses.

our

in

overtake

to

being fuUy

for

reason

to

came

thought

we

ourselves

threatened

constancy

doubtless,

Wanzenau
foimd

and

which

storm

the

Night

morass.

journey home

our

forwards,

went

understand

can

of

have

of

the

[An allusion,

they had

all

joyed
en-

together.]
"

in

Meanwhile,
my

which

hand,
charmed

the
fearful
away

scroll
of
all

which

held

losing it, was

the
87

constantly
a

perils of the

talisman,
journey.

GOETHE

AND

now?

And

it

guess
"

At

you

last

we

been

had
to

see
"

not

joy

those
is

long

be

from

away

the

mother

not

eat.

it is

as

gives
.

You

be

never

seemed

I
my
now

to

or

inclined

not

with
to

vacant

so

of

charming

our

and

time

my

would

forget

that?

slight heartache
thanks

wiU

you

quiet, dear

of the

not

little

play

to

child

whom

to

apple it

and

I would

believe
sweet

me.

And
it

no

new

must

To

your

88

city
joys,

Strassburg
I

now.

when

the

is

longer feel

so

friend

Yet

is.

hope,

brance
remem-

together

little

vividly
could

I will

rather

keep

you

often.

And

to

sincere
dear

remembrances
sister many

willingly give

so

the

cotmtry

does

No.

many

that

yet

better

write

and

parents.

what
.

it medicine

chimera

your

when

amiable

as

hours

how

dear

still

to

me

good,

your

as

please

many

it

doll instead

quiet,
be

coddled

our

bring

once

love;

and

it will

by

at

give

good

distasteful

would

how

soon

of seeing

hope

when

we,

you

we

bustle, contrasted

dimmed

project

were

indeed,

the

is the

And

her

Meanwhile

and

road, was

little heart, be

Dear

with

which

first thought,

our

sorrowful,

little

heart.'

can

you

it.

sensation

love.

we

'

say

it, either

utter

believe

the

on

delicious

and

"

will

not

FRIENDS

again.

How

heart

dare

WOMAN

arrived, and

our

you

again

Oh,
or

HIS

you

dred
hun-

again."

GOETHE.

From

the

portrait

by

Rabe,

in

the

Wallraf-Richartz

Museum,

Cologne.

AWAITING

FREDERIKA
From

the

painting by

GOETHE.

Kaulbach.

GOETHE

few

days

underwent
the

time

constantly.
in

him,

he

friends

concealed

this

secret

"

surprise

"Did

him
them.

not

said

and

so?

say

he

he

as

and,

they

and

go

this
and

surprised.

Her
had

of

over

not

is," he

he

him

welcome

jealousy

were

the

to

told

to

to

in

cotild

over

landlord
home

and

he

going

resolved

come

other

Though

arrived

the

to

deHciously

Sesenheim.
he

terest
in-

dear
his

was

approached.

would

his

and

Fierce

Here

him

Frederika,

to

gone

But

with

letters, books

after

he

and

and

near

before

had

was

eyes

concealed

which

at

expecting.

were

"

his

Herder

when

morning

ladies

whisper
had

night

young

seized

guest

from

particularly

they

guest

had

those

again

was

until

the

that

friend, Herder,

upon

Meanwhile

already

parsonage,

he

as

constantly

he

wait

not

Goethe's

passion

him.

November,

BEATRICE

operation

from

now

went

was

this

just

alchemy

sketches

HIS

of his illness Goethe

But

tormenting

it

after

difficult

during

AND

heard

erika
Fred-

loving

heart

the

named

even

hour!
The

Frederika
too

by
to

went

their

soon

the

went

and

themselves

off by

rapt joy

to

"

if

early he
for

being together

at

distant

the

promptly

and

Sunday

was

of the

sotmd

worship

they

day

next

church-bell

Vicar's

"

sermon.

reluctantly.
89

and

walk.

All

broken

was

callingthem
Of

Frederika

course

was

AND

GOETHE

HIS

WOMAN

FRIENDS

and

parson's daughter
as

the

of

prayers

time

her

by

Goethe,

feared

the

For

he

were

feature

were

very

limited

scrupulously
ardent

and

which

been

and

sisters

"

goldne Kinder

the

girls had

probably

that

the

it

this

and

time

that

inasmuch

and
that

as,

90

he

made

ihr

ride

he

was

Duentzer
erika
Fred-

gave

by

putting

airs.
months

Goethe

bald,

Christmas

he

well-known

constantly

grow

At

which

first three

highly probable
Easter,

at

was

two

spite
paid de-

be

evening

an

parsonage,

correspondence

the
to

the

his

little commission

some

him.

the

to

to

to

had

poetry

ich komme

other

the

upon
at

to

the

During

"

we

little poems,

soon

"

had

He

so.

Two

visit

of songs

book
words

own

(1771)

laid

do

he

though

addressed

are

discharge

to

again

believes

his

and

"

Sesenheim

from

to

of winter

the harshness

barter, but

love.

preserved,

refer, one

time, kisses

letters, gifts and

to

ever-increasing

have

that

to

his

upon

which
forfeits,

Frederika,

wanted

he

last

sharp knife.

of

of

kiss

to

not

that

of

games

meditmi

care

doubt

cannot

thrust

the

of

pressed

social life of

the

of

the
In

curse.

common

good

taken

like

now

Hps murmuring

memory

been

And

well.

sweet

the

lips had
heart

duty

her

service

the

his

into

struck

her

side, saw

woman's

knew

of

between

the

new

the

two

affectionate.

more

went

in

that

to

Sesenheim

year
tinued
con-

It is
for

neighbourhood,

did

if he

Yet

Strassbiirg
Goethe

was

he

dear

had

background

than

beloved

his

of

such, indeed,

And

For

been.

i:
that

of

much

was

ladies
"

us,
a

likdy
in the

One

Hamlet

aloud, the

drew

her

breath

deeply from

flush

passed

similarity of

the

play occurred

to

her

and

his

love.
have
of

son

an

almost

was

And

hers.

she
the

please

to

time

and

time

to

cheeks."
to

that

mayhap

the

tells

girl,he

young

position

her

of

visit

it must

when

her

over

the

understand

to

read

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the

evening,

seeing
trying

one.

see

with

he

transient

of

more

position

not

they

Strassburg

was

his

intelligent

of this.

implication

he

compared

as

too

this

easily

citizen

nobleman

and

to

since

where

(Prufung)

as

Frankfort

important

of

can

inasmuch

house

idyllic

test

we

and,

the

own

relative

broader

speaks

as

daughters

opportunities

her

he

Autobiography

of

many

against

one

two

her
rich

Frederika's

him.

to

came

all that

Sesenheim

to

go

habituS

an

guests,

were

now

visit

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

brought

presently

mother

his

not

Sesenheim

in

counted

HIS

AND

GOETHE

Very

of Ophelia
read

she

the

lines
"

It

Goethe

For

Goethe

and

Hold

it

fashion

has
was

enthusiastic

earlier
in

and

to

his

with

one

another
92

favour,

toy in blood."

remarked

been

love

letters

of
trifling

the

that,
he

woman,

about

his

when
wrote

turbulent

GOETHE

with

letter

and

adding

the

is

Salzmann,

however,

waverings

concerning

in

May,

bad

friend

1771,

for

the

For

going
see

the

to

how

cough, by

are

this

of

and

the

beautiful
have

happy.

very

from

his

of

letters

Sesenheim

at

of

knows

for the

some

weather

purpose

he

just

with

the

staying

curing

well

strength

at

am

what

he

necessary

it will

very

bright rotmd

look

out

of

as

well

not

am

I shall not
for you

the

to

But

depart.

soon

me;

poorly, and
"

to

exercise, is pretty

about

joint
93

be

and

very

and

"

tolerably well;

now

hope

it will

and

continues

writes,

present

I think
I

he

of treatment

means

[Frederika]

everything

God,"

place

are.

you

not

of

long

so

reduced,

things
one

that

struggling

honour

leave
for

you

write

weU

while

had

recipient

love,

on

it.

do
"

is

and

do

to

chief

the

fidants
con-

society

him

ostensible

it is clear

cough,

has
to

his

he

charming

this

sent

he

which

the

made

did

former,

country

house,

most

and

him

stirred

the
that

that

he

But

Salzmann

to

the

the

of

and

neighbourhood

in

days

daughters

of

saying

few

pleasant people

greatly

and

affair,sending

1770,

her.

true

because

ones,

to

this

14,

amiable

letters

less

was

adored

Crespel

spending

been

this

case

Franziska

in
October

BEATRICE

his

love

his

sent

of

make

of

many

he

chiefly

HIS

Frederika's

In

emotions.
than

AND

say

the

that

little
makes

nothing

of

AND

GOETHE

conscia

Yet

about.

box

would

you
have

been

send

it to

like

address,

I danced

Whit

for
Schulz

secured

had
fast
since
have

yet, if I could
than

better

all.
,

when

changeable.
from

me

His
deal

Adieu.

than

we

of

carrier

it.

mezzos
inter-

any

Herr

The

Amt

drawing-room;
and

the

we

fim

was

feverishness
You

too.

stepped

in

the

You

shall

to

dancing.

that

is like

and

and,

ought

happy,

head

me.

till twelve

without

am

brewing

Love

me

would

cock,
weather-

gusts

are

hear

soon

again."
conscience

as

My

is

storm

to

Just

afternoon

Me

whole

that

time.
care

to

my

better,

say

sent

some

see

his

forgot

The

than

faces

musicians,

been

pound

[Frederika's sister]on

lent

it has

there.

wiU

two

arcade,

me

Write
.

better

drinking.

good

some

then,
been

And

and

eating

furious.

and

for

in the

two

Reschwoog

von

get

sweeter

the
he

follows

and

straight off

night,

at

know

eldest

the

from

Monday,

o'clock

be

with

(you

see

to

Friday:

on

to

to

that

country.

were

for

occasion

accustomed
my

^
recti,

eat) packed

to

give

SchoU, early
"

if you

sweetmeats

girls

what

FRIENDS

all it is the

after

nice

of

WOMAN

alas!

not,

Friday, and

on

me

and

mens,

HIS

he

lingered

illness,the
'

continued
on,

cruel

Cf. Virgil,Aen.

i,

to

trouble

him

delas^ng, because
blow
604:
94

mens

which

he

sibi conscia

of

felt he
recti.

good
erika's
Fredmust

GOETHE

give her.
he

when

By

AND

he

June

HIS

has

got

his letter of

sent

BEATRICE

write

to
"

My

two

or

Here

cough

continues

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and

fresh

of
"

door

air

is

often

am

but

tell you

diem

defending had,

this

found

time

he
real

in

other

when

one

to

town.

be

can

breaks

off,

why

reason

curious

as

burst
out-

knew

about

the

to

often

Today,

about

thank

you

perfectly.
95

this

to

grasp

I wanted
the

meats
sweet-

Goethe."

you.

which

poet

our

is here

fact, already been

Sesenheim.

inapplicable

fails

for

read

happiness

our

adieu.

I love

of

matter

to

ethics

Adieu,

that

at

of

could

who

it and

about

philosophy

wanting
quite

fair, for him

well.

word

to

carpe

doctrine

indulges

professor

many

and

and

in

am

help what

indispensable

so

propounds

write

The

hinge.'

come

of the

speak

the

Here

"

vexed

is

to

least

than

alive

cannot

fair, so

so

learning which

none

half

"

he

lectures

and

better
and

certainly
only

at

to

myself edifying

which

prompts

eudemonics:

enjoy it.

and

is

yet

then

world

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the

reckoning

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delays.

twixt

one

trusting himself

he

events

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helped, without
not

all

though

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breathe.

cannot

is at
'

I sit

well.

respects

the

word

nothing.

and

his friend

to

than

away

earlier

fortnight

necessity of saying something

him

further

no

to

For

That

tried
it

is

love-affairs,he
Goethe,

as

well

by
as

AND

GOETHE

suffered

Frederika,

letters

of

end

the

needful

the

to

"

better

know

and

without
in

rustle

the

been
that

And

then

saying.
but

"

"

"

his

this.

Even

at

himself

man

before
the
'

tower:

here

deal

for

my

me,

it

Greek
time

edge
knowl-

translation.

know

you

because

not

the

Greek

without
older:

there

learning

am

my

thee,' so

during

that

Homer

weeks

winds

over

turn

increased

so

read
four

know

I have

am

thee,

Turn

must

I almost

weathercock

rains

and

window,

the

Yet

day.

It

now.

unpleasant evening

the

that

I do

is

much

things.
dear

parents.

God

bless

my

dear

sister.

God

bless

my

dear

Actuarius.^

And

all

good

suspects
home

had

from

as

ever

these

penetrated

he

closing
to

his

lines

could.

Meanwhile,

Salzmann.

96

that

Sesenheitn

determination

his

'

Goethe."

Amen.

souls.

stiffened

had
soon

read

All this I shall

"

than

over

my

and

to

only

or

bless

from

time

cannot

God

One

as

is

is like

you

he

not

am

vine-leaves

good

many
"

and

whole

for

finely;
have

within

church

on

goes

or

it

vagula

the

on

week

when

the

animula

has

and

this

through

resolve:

coming

am

FRIENDS

understand

to

fourth

the

all

One

Salzmann

to

WOMAN

keenly

afterwards.

long

for

HIS

to

letters
retreat

depart

besides

"

work-

AND

GOETHE

ing

his Homer

at

which

he

make

his

old friend
to

came

later

and

"

write

he

what

will

me?

of

dreams

of

myself

when

thou

'

didst

Are

when

make-weight!
throws

fate

of

joy
and

'

"

Zugabe

as

is not

fly in
may

the

world.

at

amber

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get.

97

as

ask

near

I feel

The

an

which

ness.
happi-

every

had

it,

happier

for.

boy,

of

for which

not

to

to

planted

I had

brought
I

and

"

seems

often

whit

and

it grew

nought,

to

the

courage

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not

[Zugabe ^]
us

are

horizon

wished

for

sport;

it bloom

this

has

balance

in

Are
'

is

who

they are!

one

one

in this

blossoms

one

'

my

time.

long

fairy gardens

are!

roimd

which

people

friend, it requires much

seeing

The

it for

make-weight!

the

cherry-tree

the

world,

upon

the

what

down-hearted
little

the

all fulfilled?
feeds

but

peculiar, and

pleasures.

I feel that

into

is

seen

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the

Dear

be

'

yearn?

attains

one

faces

heart

these

not

friend, and

dear

the

of

eye

time

against

thy childhood
my

might

about

now

neighbourhood,

round

Well

intend,

I have

than

years

and

through

wavers

me,

delights.

do

is

he

when

intend,

of my

charming

most

fond

"It
I

condition

beautiftil

service

basket-weaving!

back.

bodily health

The

still in the

an

"

retrospective visit, eight

intending

The

more

found

Salzmann:

came

BEATRICE

painted the pastor's coach

learned

to

that

he

HIS

the

the

joy

wait

English equivalent

of

AND

GOETHE

the

then

year;

birds

fruit

And

cherry

me

the

prepared

not

to

the

give

fellow, pardon

of

for
after

himself
have

to

to

see

dew.
milI

own,

me

free

me

Seriously,

soon

for

be

have

kind

so

as

brings

this

louis-d'or;

for

long

time.

so

it into

the

the

the

twentieth

holidays, he

following

written

dear

Goethe."

midsummer

The

Write

Adieu,

on

letter, and

Your

this, perhaps

been

the

of my

injunctions.

away.

the

was

everything.

just before

June,

tore

here.

strict

me

Immediately

set

kindly put

bearer

wish

you

myself

please, and

me,

I had

then

garden

it

year

who

woman

before

the

trees.

to

firmly fixed

give

had

if

remittance

become
to

and

Farewell,

share

neighbour,

I have

yet, when

ripe but

and

Another

greedy

shall again plant

send

largest

single cherry.

FRIENDS

beautiful

the

caterpillars,then

"

WOMAN

grew

devoured

had

tasted

HIS

the

on

letter

pears
ap-

of

eve

his

departure.
"

My

close, it is just nine.

eyes

of
lashed
as

head

if my

find

scrap

until

wholly
that

of bed

out

see

bright.
am

early today
Uke

were

of paper
you

Revelling

things.

but

with

plans.

this

night;

It

seems

I cannot

"

blue.

Be

rangement
ar-

even

satisfied

...

again.
I

yesterday

room

my

Delightful

am

grasping

Within
much

too

after
98

my

heart

awake

shadows.

not

And

it is not
to

feel

yet,

to-

GOETHE

is

It

suffer.
of

much

the

he

than

Yet

steadfastly

point of view

and

it has

my

wish

all that

is in

been

harmonious."

It

by

highest happiness,

affair
of

poetic gifts,who
to

us

win

have

her

believe

Frederika
*

love.

quite

as

in

well

See Grappe's Rheinhold

boyhood
develop

up

pletely
com-

existence

his

goal that
nunciation
re-

"

of the

unhappy

Goethe

Lenz;

Leben

of Frederika

much
if he

see

could

himself
^

would

Werhe,

had

p.

lo

have
with

succeeded

himself
und

love-

youth

feather-brained

as

100

by

stated

be

worthy

his

friend

Goethe's

that

Frederika.

temperament's

was

biographer

Lenz's

when

brokenhearted.

hearing
to

to

own

my

woman,

determined

way,

character

renunciation,

confidants

from

to

this

almost

Lenz,

her

a
"

my

make

noble

was

Rheinhold

was

seems

not

Goethe's

of

One

From

first great
a

in
up

best

can

because

which

loved

deliberately stigmatizes

purpose
to

me,

was

his

made

Goethe

and

more

the

artistic

"

Meister:

much

he,

regard

defence

his

quoting Wilhelm

he

with
the

Frau

he

by

long
be-

wrote

measuring

where

to

him

That

thought
never

he

and

"

seen

weakness

own

held

he

is

Goetz,

in

loved

"

not

came,

Weislingen
his

had

enough.

for

could

later

years

he

that

she

deserved,

not

test

great

FRIENDS

that

eight

himself

despised

felt

"

tenderly if

very

WOMAN

Frederika

that

beautifully

of

He

her.

Stein

HIS

perfectly plain

another,

to
von

AND

done,

et seq.

GOETHE

but

to

have

to

than

been

fotuid

soon

fellow

and

Frederika

recently
And

glad
been

that

became

the

with

jealous

her

place in

value

did

lightly

love

und

Wahrheii

together

in

Once,

emotion.

the

von

is left

was

years

him.

the

their

happy

often

overcome

which

had

her

saw

His
of

portion

days
with

stretched
and

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the

ever

his

(Sept. 25, 1779)

pleasant friendly evening together.

Stein

Sesenheim

and

left it eight years

friendly

which

her, he

to

they passed
Frau

the

writing of

piteous farewell

most

could

nor

given

dictating

in
he

described

are

had

she

while

that

Dichtung

had

and

back,

is all there

the
us

towards

fact.

else

easily forget Frederika

tells

To

drew

not

secretary

and

"

had

story.

Goethe

between

heart,

he

her

to

anyone

the

found

also

love
she

nor

with

fiu-ther

is

when

he

yoting

because

violent

neither

that

him

Goethe,

made

soon

insanely

fill Goethe's

with

was

Goethe's

terms

he

That

talk

to

much

he

certain

to

tmdeniable.

the

after

friendly

on

such

youth!

That

Sesenheim

to

be

to

mind.

more

declares

Lenz

he, poor

of unsound

got

fanuly is

which

And

case.

nothing

he presents

in

frequently

departure

"

be

to

went

whole

letters

the

BEATRICE

HIS

his assertion

support

convincing

AND

manner.

he

then

found

there
ago.

The
101

was

second

"

wrote:

the

rode

family

welcomed

daughter

as

in the

loved

AND

GOETHE

others

than
and

faith.

when

it

of

old

the

I stood

that

I felt

to

in

rekindle

the

into

me

arbour

not

me

and

composed

frank

myself
away

and

comfort,
One
Goethe

evening

and

of the

talked
in

had

this

of

know

that

old

friends

with

they

entire

September,

about

are

It

that

of

the

at

peace

whom

Rheitihold
102

of

We
and

were

yotuiger.
at

called
re-

if I had

people

can

world
with

Frederika

frankness, that

was

as

looking

so

was

I had

days

all

old

led

one
every-

which

painted.

of

to

spoken

departed

and

comer

down.

had

conscious

thought

She

happy

friendly faces;

me

justice

love.

songs

me

more

once

old

and

leaving behind

the

inquired after

of those

there

such

threshold,

her

sat

The

night

mained
re-

moment

the

of

only six months.

the

with
the

on

Neighbours

vividly

as

stiU

traces

from

we

I found

lightly

slightest attempt

there

pastime

hearty

stayed

think

cinders

carriage

many

been

the

night and

ago!

week

found

the

everything.

passed

do

not

moment

behaved

I must

and

lovely moonlight
and

bosom

my

she

generosity

made

at

what

me

quite relieved.
she

life;

her, vinexpected,

before

that

say

her

more

passion

much

so

leave

iUness, and

exqtiisitedelicacy and
that

given

her

teU

to

deserved, and

to

her

cost

episode

that

over

forced

was

nearly

than

I have

whom

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

days better

in those

me

HIS

dawn
now

with

me."
and

moonlight

Lenz, who

had

GOETHE

been

AND

HIS

secretly plotting against

it is to

Lenz

that

concerning

Frederika

there

is,however, absolutely
first

was

he

meant

dined

be

to

larger than
coffee

took
the

of the

had

be"i

Yet,

maiden.
his

tale

that

Catholic
"

his

inconstancy,

of

Lili

it

this

'

In

When

by
that

Frederika.

Frederika's

the

had

been

got

whitest

whole
paper.

brought
Goethe

Another
life is

an

When

Foreign Classics for English Readers,

103

by

orphan

and

malicious

He.

bpok

edited

father
by

Mrs.

child
to

prevent

to

betrayed

her

beyond

betrothed

open

palliate

to

foimdation

became

had

he

Goethe

the

down

Hayward

interested

those

sets

says

up

sweet

records

he

he

by,

gone

of this

"

no

away

seduced

up

of

then

bore

which

in

occasion

"

he

bill

the

father

days long

this

resting on

having

said

marriage

For
on

of her

was

abandoned

book

on

story

and

sister."

her

very

that

be) and

hands

injudicious partisan

some

fact

the

in

white

Frederika

priest;

by

the

the

emotions

poignant

the

in

by

Sesenheim,

to

which

in

what

Frederika's

to

jessamine which,

tended

philologist,who

it should

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parish.

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death) made

successor

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(grumbling

inn

of

germ

"

pilgrimage

thought

the

of the

care

sprig

he

with

the

at

Frederika's

pious

meditatively

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after

years

the

basis of truth

no

put into print by Nake,

(nine

1822

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both.

attribute

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story

them

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very

in

BEATRICE

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printed
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Oliphant.

AND

GOETHE

1787)

and

she

she

April

died
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to

by

her

sweet,

was

wont

of those

did

right

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the

her

experience

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element

it wanted.

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though

story
she

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So

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her

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before
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reicli dass

Frederika

death,

Messenheim
the

Unsterblichkeit

of Goethe, p.
104

104.

"

the

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have

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er

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her

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sympathies.

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monument
"

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did

companion

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parson's daughter

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she

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poet's genius by narrowing

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years

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sets

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associated

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far

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brother

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brother

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and

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WOMAN

sister Sophie

her

in

Rothan,

at

HIS

fiel auf sie

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of

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Goethe,

in which
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GOETHE

had

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experienced

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with

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of

life,of the

in

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life.
of

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her,

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Good-bye."
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in the

Love

lives

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can

gave

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of

for

white

me

with

what

may

her

lover

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lines:

while

life in memory.

keepsakes o'er, the

my

once,

time.

come.

stillness for

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few

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me

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me

quote

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refused

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spirit of

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with

ribbons
blue

background;

curl of his brown

he

books

himself

forget-me-nots
and

in my

locket

hair, so beautiful,

fine.
105

this;

loving lips of

ftilness

verses

some

emotions

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novelist

panionship
com-

little of

the
he

serious

become

knew

sympathy
the

and

Frederika's

the

love,

exquisite

to

not

of habit

with

emulous

upon

to

written

tenderness

"

to press

well-known

in

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soar.

of

the

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wanting

are

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souls

to

vigilant,

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woman,

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little,and

little of

feared
the

"

form

dignified through

other

kiss he

Frederika,
with

makes

become

to

each

knew

for

man

the

(no

paint

of

knew

two

loving rivalry

and

could

subtle

itself become

teaching

he

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late

aims

BEATRICE

takes

fondness.

until

love

and

tenderness

protecting

and

HIS

peculiar tenderness

that

when

AND

"

ah!

share
art."

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derful
won-

have
said

.AND

GOETHE

HIS

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sigh

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when

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Follow

shall

fuU

Goethe
it

that

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cared

for

too

right

who

her

and

declares, she

not.

to

be

the

her

husband

for

him

for

had

her

say,

and
leave

to

he

that

less

care

if she

to

on

goes

poem

her

would,

him

"

none

made

own

my

if I blame

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glad

is

think

to

was

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reproach,

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room.

the

well, the

was

was

her.

dare

me

hand;

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means

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sighs

my

them, their kind

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him?

blame.

or

knows

that

from

has

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they

hold

and

that

me

of him.

then

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she

angers

praise

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see

loose

thought against

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for when

pitifullyabout

me

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down

for company
I break

pity

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hear;

eyelids dry

my

them, swallow

ease

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tears

keep

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WOMAN

once

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life

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live

again,

over

"...
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choose

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desire

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at

emotions
truth.

such

miss

the

reads

Frederika.

than

sting

torturing memory.

one

he

the

vision, ay, the dream

love."

For,

more

and

least,

inconstant,
and

than

bear

to

though
loved
one

very

keen

analyst

And

Goethe

I think
was

whose
106

feminine

she

nothing

gloriously for the

woman

of

hits
if

time

life touched

the
not

being,
his

CHAPTER

WHO

CHARLOTTE,

is

There

VI

but

question

no

BREAD

CUT

that,

if not

much,

suffered

quite

passion

for

Charlotte

Btiff

passion

for

Frederika.

Yet

and

fancied,

by

his

as

Sesenheim

proofs.
it

his

in

"

if the

interest

glance
order

which

at

blotted
Yet

real,
of

at

very

Charlotte

by

out

the

his

to

present

mind

the

as

poignant.

of

has

been

Then
to

him

the

108

give

higher

is

cursory

in

Chamber,
ment
mo-

adorable

Charlotte

Imperial

Chamber!

said,

Wetzlar
and

prosaic

unfavourable

The

history

time,

to

gave

Wetzlar

at

Imperial

arrived."

the

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the

read;

it, he

receive

me

vincing
con-

duced
repro-

might

me

may

allow

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history

fairly

two

exceedingly

it

was

inspired

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to

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will

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the

at

to

this

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passion

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looking

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this

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all

his

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autobiography

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no

in

that,

paragraph:
of

which

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his

that

that

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book

second,

and,
it

in

from

as

time,

from

more,

experience,

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the

at

deep-seated

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not

AND

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only.

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home
the

CHARLOTTE,
less

shotild

we

Goethe

with

Charlotte
who

WHO

be

it

person

by

wrote

have

the

emerged

of the
about

it applies to

Werther
I

which,

what

I'homme

desire immens6ment,

mais

Goethe

had

though
had

always
through

trying

will.

strong

to

often

Thus

in his head

of blown

instead

by

out

illustrates

able

to

come

his brains

with
a

he

desires

strong
was

because

faiblement."

il veut

he

once

Aujourd'hui

say:

experience like Werther's

an

just

"

exactly

Now

improved

Goethe,

to

writing

Guizot

affair.

not

man

sion,
love-pas-

considerably

and

am

all

at

through

system

Werther

loved

who

balanced

whole

confuse

to

book-hero

and

of

reason

not

spirit, not

weighed

and

BUTTER

AND

all this

the

diseased

epigram

an

in

For

"

"vfr'orked it out
about

BREAD

careful

Werther.

was

could

CUT

of borrowed

set

pistols.
"

certain

three

the

Goethe,

his

as

purpose,

of

knowledge

might

of

son

very

thought,

father

with

Homer,

Pindar,

genius,

habits

his

else

whatever

occupation

practice, but

study

to

here

came

by

old, only

years

heart

there

spring

the

In

to

suggest

him."

Frankfort

from

jurist, twenty-

rich

father,^ with

gaining

of
the

secret

some

mination
deter-

etc., and
of

to

thought,

This

do
and

sketch

of

written

by

in

Goethe
none

other
'

Wetzlar

than

Goethe's

background
the

Kestner,

father

was

was

original

of

really only well-to-do, not

109

Albert
rich.

in

to

Btiff, Steward

Herr

survival
sixteen
the

eldest, t"ut, being

than

her

than

Httle

Buffs

young

Just
the

who

Goethe

as

maideh

sentimental

loving.

real

The

so-called, and

feeding

and

She

sisters.

model

of the

forever

enough

that

made
she

K's
In

had

to

to

have

turn

them

play

of her

found

the

management
110

other

of

from

all

not

quite

free

very

little culture

washing

and

brothers

young

had

eyes,

So

there
so

as

and
was

is

is

no

large

neat

tality.
vi-

mtdtiplied

far

of

unbounded

duties

attractive

was

blue

for

Kaiser

present
she

easily.
and

nine

died

the

She

work

quaint

Werther

patience enough

off

more

served, indeed,

appearance

her

for

was

happy

which

how

matter

not

Charlotte

agreeable expression and

an

always

seemed

was

have

being beautiful.

No

she

three

the

clamorous

might

exalting.

without

figure,

her

was

infancy.

perfectly

dressing and

had

the

to

to

whom

Charlotte

was

had,

coming

sentimentality,

enervating

she

Werther

not

was

had

clearer-headed

and

outlived

had

of

curious

Buff

acting mother

been

home

Charlotte

stronger

Goethe's

before

town,

the

Order,

sister, Caroline,

senior

year

whom

(!!) of

children

betrothed

was

over

mediaevalism.

German

of

he

Teutonic

of the

secretary

was

and

presided

girl, who

charming

Kestner

Bremen

legation at

the ducal

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Werther.

of

Sorrows

The

HIS

AND

GOETHE

she

energy

possible
evidence
a

brood

CUTTING

CHARLOTTE

From

the

BREAD

painting

by

AND

Kaulbach.

BUTTER.

WERTHEE

From

the

LOTTE.

AND

painting

by

Kaulbach.

CHARLOTTE,
of

anything
how

WHO

that

was

of

seeing that
of

Like

rather

managing

and

all

young

people

and

he

bread

and

his

"

It

was

witnessed.

old,
a

were

that

Goethe

own

partner,

She

robe
was

for

on

woman's

to

had

called

to

who

"

we

so

the

take

Charlotte

as

well

party

her

friend

entered

the

cutting

costume,
and

sisters.
in

Werther

us

describe

the

scene

it, looking in:

saw

the

may

with

he

shows

by

detained

little brothers

her

first became

was

As

Lange.

some

arranged

Goethe

out

go

ardently

ball, which

Kestner,

picture

famous

most

Six

charming

about

height,

of simple white,

holding

spectacle

children, from

running

lady of middle

in

is capable

Lotte

that

her.

unable

butter

doorway,
Werther

tax

its mistress, in ball

found

Kaulbach's

as

For

mothering

Imperial Chamber

cousin, Fraulein

house

and

little

was

was

with

his

the

at

was

with

official business,

and

who

man

maidens

of Whitsuntide,

acquainted

along

it

of the

in celebration

it

of

miracle

remarked.

once

slight

no

German

true

dancing

thus

well-nigh

house

BUTTER

resiliency.

loved

and

is

AND

is

kind

rare

youngsters

strength

"It

it all," Kestner

he

brood

BREAD

burden.

does

she

CUT

rye

eleven

hall

the
with

cutting slices for the little

111

ones

and

two

ever

years

surrounding

lovely figure, dressed

trimmed
loaf

to

I had

in

with
her

pink ribbons.
hand

all round,

and

was

in propor-

AND

GOETHE

tion

their

to

in

task

ran

courtyard
carriage
Pray

for

to

strangers,

and

Charlotte

was

their

giving

for

me

keeping

for

the

arranging

some

made

forget

and

had

they do

like to

not

I uttered

some

soul

was

absorbed

and

I had

into

her

drive

by

out,

fetch

to

room

the

facts

in

that

Lotte

ner,

unlike

the

Albert

from

the

ball

years

the

are

betrothed

was

clever
Goethe's

young

told

but

Secretary of

senior,

had
112

the

already

whole

manner

in
not

also

ran

The

have
But

the

story

yet

know

And

few

she

Werther.

story, did

came

me.'

fan."

Kestner.

the

but

supper;

when

may

in

come

before

my

her

and

did

to

of

but

voice,

different

Goethe

actuality:

return

as

to

but

anyone

gloves

away.

waiting:

myself

the

substantially

and

This

air, her

ball, and

important

away

it from

her

drive

children's

my

the

the

survey

duties

compliment

her

to

trouble

household

take

indifferent

of

meal;

retired

to

ladies

scarcely recovered

happened
two

me

Some

to

the

you

dressing and
leave

thanks.

gentler disposition,
the

in which

and

me,

see

forgive

his

hands

enjoy their evening

to

once

each

manner;

outstretched

with

turn

her

performed

She

affectionate

shouting

at

away

others, of

whilst

appetite.

his

awaiting

boisterously

them

'

and

age

FRIENDS

WOMAN

graceful and

claimant
and

HIS

not

hours

Kest-

stay
ter.
la-

Legation, eight
met

the

poet

AND

GOETHE

fashion

WOMAN

troubUng

without

him

to

HIS

himself

convention.

or

FRIENDS

All

about

reputation,

constraint

is

odious

him.

to
"

them

well,

In

principiis

to

strive

of this

he

after
he

doesn't

is not

has

people.

On

certain

unbosom

himself

their

on

is

already

far

as

I have
He

and

he

enough
with

regard

not

go

seldom.
that.
to

respect.

after

different

and

to

the

church

Sometimes

114

will

content

sure,

says

or

he
he

to

is not
the

is not
seems

he

ideas
that

weightiest.

subjects, sometimes

contrary.

he

definite

that

however,
to

other

from

be

to

caprice

or

leaves

one

believes, indeed,

even

He

certain

he

still

what

things

truth

as

but

pride

Scepticism,

observed,

prays

many

something

say

of

out

others

few;

convinced

does

for

questions,

he

and

only beginning

fundamental

strives

he

stands

is not

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himself

ideas.

fundamental

case.

to

own

hates, and

is

he

great

are

manner

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him.

this is not

of making

with

and

system.

blindly worship

for the

outward

has

with

there

children

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high opinion of Rousseau,

orthodox, but

calls

and

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sex

definite

bizarre

women,

female

the

For

others.

himself

disagreeable.

less, with

the

none

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bearing

him

make

might

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in

things

several

entertains

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deal.

great

and

loves

he

Children

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yet the

sacrament

hypocrite
in

repose

just the

WHO

CHARLOTTE,
"

He

in

form

it.

in

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for it.

things,

thought

and

been

has

had

the

so-called

describe

to

is

he

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smitten

next

day

"

it:
has

Lottchen

Her

glance

especially

and

Goethe
am

indeed,

by

soon

himself
no

means

non-Christian

it

take

of

to

came

study
fact

he

the

On
"

was

long,

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feel.

called

at

as

word

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meeting,

had

and

inquire

to

evening of

an

us

the
how

cing.
dan-

strenuous

obligingly tells

all about

fixed

his

attention.

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not

tiful.
regularly beau-

at

elucidates

has

except

too

him.

naturally,

was

in

he

chief

added:

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is

but

knowledge

that

attractive

very

deal, learned

sciences."

said

feeling

the

man."

after

had

in

arts;

it will

be

Kestner

good

values

Kestner

but

her

with

herself

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butter

also

he, very

found

she

and

remarkable

very

Charlotte

So

of

to

truth, yet

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kind

deal

better

more.

draft

sent
pre-

books;

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him

great

of

fine

rough

usually

truth,

the

bread

not

good

still

with

of this

there
is

do

to

of

lot

belles-lettres and

margin
going

read

reasoned

has

after

already done

but

life and

demonstration

has

many

strives

reUgion

future

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the

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great

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in

BUTTER

AND

theologians

our

believes

hjigherthan

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Christian

which

of existence.

state

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the

venerates

the

CUT

once

as

bright

so

this

that

point

o"rff-Christian,not

as

one

even

(nicht-Christian)."
115

spring morning,

day, for

in

She

of

she

loves

his letters to

dan-

Lavater:

""-Christian, but

am,

AND

GOETHE

wit.

than
came

to

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her

under

her

saw

now

this time
where

house

by

the

his

children

arrival
and

promptly

picking

fruit

able

genius
Shortly

after

was

evil

an

way."

to

the

course,

her

seen

pleasure;

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aspect,

he

in

"

determine

whether

evil genius which

his

he

yet

spent my
the

happy

time,
ones.

good

him

drove

genius.

days in Wetzlar

The
116

me

the

children

genius

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out

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could

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days

good

Wetzlar.

to

as

never

his

"

to

such

was

was

wrote,

certainly,

wont

was

He
it

sent

he

departure

joyfully

occupation

beans.

up

in Lotte's

hailed

big sister

useful

some

cutting

And

have
At

the

and

always

was

genius when

pertshause.
wish

had

took
to

of

constantly

was

where
at

or

to

his

or

Goethe

on

put him

quite

and

she

day,
He

dancing

another

Lottchen

wholly

next

often

quality."

domestic
From

friendship

because

inquire after her.

of

custom

our

(this he

gay

herself

The

lively girl, fond

betrothed.

beyond

so

gave

moment.

to

humour

was

it is not

more

it, but

the

called

Goethe
as

about
of

the

rather

she

of

beauty

melancholy);

times

him,

the

for

"

excessively

was

other

quite fascinated

pleasure

know

not

later; and

He

at

trouble

wit,

testify anything

to

is, though

no

feeling

unforced

hours

other.

each

her

did

few

public

in

her

and

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Natiire,

noticed

He

cing.

HIS

-were

all adored

not

better

riously
glohim

CHARLOTTE,
and

he

stuffed

him

over

and

and

did

lessen

"

did

Werther

fortune

had

been

amatory
least

in

than

like

me."

interesting

to

quote

far
ventures

people

as

happy

with

whom

Goethe
her

was

wavered

both

in

of

show,

yet

while

the

researches
who

this

inclination, when
117

the

which

devotion
to

appears

between
she

her

gave

friendly interest.

warm

own

man

lotte
Char-

Yet

(there

as

the

fiance, Kestner,

fascination,

Absolutely
my

makes

the

is

entirely lacked.

and

woman!
so

age

all

tion
attrac-

him."

him?

though

in

many

public betrothal

no

who

what

"It

love

moment

Steward

so

tacitly pledged

was

old

he

all the

love

and

family

the

"

it is

that

"

not

them

keep

to

people,"

for

mother:

own

sympathy

indeed,

which

would

indeed,

I know

have

secretary

Kestner),

remarkable

"

that

honest

As,

occasion,

beauty

she

which

him?

Buff

for

never

Goethe

them!

son.

Wolf

her

excellent

and

spoiling

crawl

fairy-tales

them

help

them

them

for

the

BUTTER

let

and

associated

nearer

have

thing

Goethe's

Charlotte

he

hair, told

must

with

closely

much

as

AND

goodies,

But

one

of Doctor

Did

is

love

on

of

BREAD

burden

say

remark

to

of

not

connection

the

kind

him

it is that

and

his

Goethe

love

Wetzlar

is

with

complained.

to

came

he

them

Charlotte's

physician

CUT

pull

every

happy.

In

WHO

did

only
into

not

woman,

Goethe's

succumb,

dangerously

to

at

fascina-

AND

GOETHE

ting

poet made

young

of hers

this faith

great

attraction

friend

Born

town
"

to?

Goethe

Kestner

as

be

screen

I discovered

he

That

trying

"

out

walk,

us

he

her

to

on

sitting out

"

came

to

in

there

untouched.

away;

spoke

occurred

up

front
He

in

of

she

in

felt

similes.
118

this
I

August,

punished.

the

evening,"
returning
treated

was

The

next
"

walked

threw
with

day
found

he

his flowers
and

they

be

evening,

door;

the

egoist

it and

he

house,

in

might

him,

Goethe,

in the

call late

the

girl."

of

of

away."

went

soon

use

ance.
acquaint-

to

Kestner

the

to

to

moment

our

middle

When

me

unkindness

fourteenth,

diary,

"

them?

the

"

last of

the

can

were

should
indiscretior|,
the

added,

deceive

extraordinary

have

the

What

she

considerable

just how

that

extraordinary

an

told

this

came

the

Lotte

indifferently and
when

it.

his

in order

charms,

be

about

Kestner's

from

fact

manoeuvres

her

lavish

her

when

separate

flirt,if

for her

that

Lotte, and

will

common

Once,

her.

Accordingly,

runs

never

that

agreed

the

Uke

not

you

doing her

was!

he

kissed

he

to

was

seems

prove

troth

Once,

to

and

him

I should

I consider

find

to

lay.

his attention

precisely in

was

plighted

Goethe

that would

But

it

earnestly, "If she should

to

securely

FRIENDS

But

own

presume

answered

prove

that

for

Kestner

were

more

her

gossiping about

it lead

and

WOMAN

love.

to

called

was

If I

HIS

were

them

Goethe

CHARLOTTE,

WHO

the

through
remarkable

had

all sorts

finally laughed

o'clock

till twelve

streets

that

night;

was

full of

he

seeing that

which

imaginations,

of

leaning

at,

BUTTER

AND

BREAD

conversation,

and

anger

CUT

against

in

wall

we

the

moonlight."
Kestner,

Obviously
His

freedom

and

it

men

from

was

other's

each

in

much

Certainly

there

be

found

of

character

more

hope with

no

all his

none,

him

enable

has

he

And

way

qualities

make

of

by

which

he

could

what

to

forced

strange

to

seem

'

Written

he

119

as

love
Kestner.

to

to

but

taste;
encourage

admire

scenes

estimation

friend;

yet

I considered
transform

her
fered
suf-

of mind

remarkable
my

to

affection.

and

peace

when

by

cherish

did

his

must

worthier

can

could

dangerous

so

in

this

pride failed

feeling

various

admire.

Goethe
and

him

His

rose

found

raphy
literary biog-

inborn

that

so

amazement
creatures

Lotte

him

him.

always

but

of

were

in

suppress

treat

yet

there

Lotte
not

to
one

acting towards

greatly;

I often

to

of hope,

budding

and
to

how

to

two

analysis than

to

completely

knew

Lottchen

honestly

Although

regard

philosophy

especially

woman,

"

noble

the

they

generous
*

As

better

else

nowhere

can

triangular situation:

cherish

no

another

one

person.

truly

was

Goethe.

forgotten by
know

to

remarkable

jealousy

petty

never

came

also, was

and
was

into
the

GOETHE

and

strongest

and

for, while

of

thought
and
a

in

of

other

One

under

he

gives

from,

young

woman

known

I consider

But

in

and
still do

account
"

desires

bind

relation

is this

pleasure,

in

the

when

above
like

from

man,

several

years.

addition, that

declared
without

her,
This

honourable

lasts

all

feeling

acquiescence.
an

am

than

stands

man

gives it, receives

expressly

with

so

he

to

there

have

perceive

to

preference

complete

such

case

so

the

Lottchen

to

the

quite enough

my

able

situation.

honourable

she

but

especially when

the

on

that

when

this

only

not

endure

not

invaluable

engagement
an

her, and

this

light

which

others, makes

be

not

feeling conquered

been

from

extract

under

my

conflict."

further

no

thought

might

latter

never

same

still further

throws

I could

The

I have

the

happy

for

struggles of

hand

hand

other
her.

losing

Lottchen

shadow

that

the

pained

was

many

one

Lottchen

make

me

self -sustained

most

"

general

the

on

FRIENDS

matters

within

arose

his, on

as

other

there

to

great

in

"

WOMAN

In

affection;
power

HIS

mankind.

of

him,

AND

chen
Lott-

ourselves

and

oaths

and

any

asseverations."

So, though
considered
difficult
on

they

each

other

situation

moonlight

not

were'

to

nights

very

be
in

really
much

bound

all they

at

bound.

Surely

ethically clarified by
midsummer.
120

All

poet

through

GOETHE

did

AND

quickly

not

of

his

he

wrote

birthday

examination

he

that

is full

climax

dined

the

evening,
Goethe

had

he

but

mind

led

their

after
feet

his
was

Death,
and

playing

habit, spoke
of her

mother

whether
next

and

world,

she

into

the

was

skirt

of her

that
should

Goethe's

Lotte

turn

recognize
mind
122

had

serious

talk

dress
But

dear

leaped

tention
in-

in his

was

to

Life

at

her

as

was

while

thinking,
that

he

his

sitting

Beyond.
was

of

unusually

who

the

that

this

that

Goethe,

of

Charlotte.

friends

fact

the

leavetaking

to

also

had
in

and,

resolved

happened

the

He

visit

to

his

to

less, the

with

really

take

to

without

morning

conversation

Lotte

channels.

he

which

"

lO.

inn

firmly

nothing

the

is

refused

garden

together

next

said

None

knew

shows.

have

to

has

the

went

away,

go

he

He

September

at

two

appears

would

that

however,

September

"

on

came

Kestner

with

self-

true

For

moment.

Lotte
him

with

little excursion
The

of

day

episode,

of

letter

pique because

of

him

Wetzlar.

at

painful

the

his

as

evening.

peculiarly

Sesenheim

the

keeps postponing
suffering,

the

later

years

flee.

must

during

As

two

with

was

himself

in

friendly ushering

recalling

this

found

FRIENDS

and

always

was

and

he

summer

that

year,

Charlotte

to

WOMAN

forget

twenty-fourth

His

now

HIS

it

ing
wonder-

one

in the

suddenly

CHARLOTTE,
the

to

WHO

distance

three

CUT

that

he

hostess's

hand, and,

"

We

be

other
"

if I

to

it.

not

again,

kissed

his

be.

may

'

forever

recognize

shall

we

Farewell.

his

feet,

we

say

betray

home, exclaimed,

for

out

these

between
to

his

to

BUTTER

'

We

ready

am

should

shall

not

each

see

again."
To-morrow

for

order

form

were

bear

to

be

set

other

in whatever

but

able

he

as

AND

soon

quickly

each

see

other
go,

In

jumped

shall

each
to

would

living friends.

emotion

BREAD

this

which

likely,"replied

very

probably

was

the

had

poet

the

not

made

Lotte

occasion

first

solemnity

serenely,

of

upon

going

home

bed.

to

Such

their

was

Goethe

dashed

gone,

Kestner,

gone.

Give

died

nothing

say

The

but

with

you

'

A.

At

farewell.
I could

Kestner's

is

firmly
agreed

and

this

of the

next

moment

can

If I had

tarried

have

restrained

not

to-morrow

"

ran:

Goethe

123

und

I surely hope
Werther,

p. 44.

to

shall

"

head!

for Lotte

note

is

he

was

had

conditions

the

alone,

am

poor

my

(they

"He

note,
I

note.

room

mation
should, if possible, give infor-

asunder.

you

Now

myself.
leave.

to

this

conversation
first

me

longer

moment

enclosed

the

lines:

receive

living about

torn

reaching his

On

following

you

your

the

to

the

when

but

whoever

life) has

off

Lottchen

composed,
that

separation.

return

AND

GOETHE

only

God

but
heart
last

time

yet

you

to

you,

I should

see

going

am

which

and

the

may

But

door

'

is gone.

packed

of

in

you?

cheerful
are

it is

Yet

as

under

happier

than

all
a

for

fate

done

writing,

that

that

in

dear
but

all,
I

am

away

I cannot

day

and

the

divide

why

But

am

other
an-

know

you

days and

others;

Let
will

you

For

have

"

add:

excuse

my

circumstances,

124

he

boy

breaking;

to-morrow

hundred

again.

you

gone.

people.

often

may

am

which

these

to-day

to

It is my

so.

always

my

to

is

day

write.

to

dearest, best

reality add

to-morrow,

as

been

I have

the

to

the

serve

alone

shall

see

able

and

nothing

I have

happy

going
from

children

saw

more."

forgot and

who
now

Tell

was

hour

an

which

am

I shall

any
he

to

and

never.

Lotte, and

up,

the

how

"

is

write

which

as

And
'

happy

you

hand

father

last time!

the

was

of your

room

dear

your

heart.

quarter

Lotte,

and

to-morrow

The

to

there

me

below,

here

chance

with

last time!

night's sleep

pictures

heart, but

the

was

spirit led

me

gave

my

time, and

last

the

What

It

I leave

I cannot

After

among

the

for

in your
not

all

for

weep.

remain

Not

world

return

never

to

me

you!

it

that

to-morrow.

of this

I kissed

I shall

I knew

in my

was

thought

more

when

away

it moved

Lotte, how

conversation?

that

FRIENDS

WOMAN

when.

to

all that

say

knows

listen

to

HIS

after

jest.

Lotte;
do

not

Be
you

be

WHO

CHARLOTTE,

read

eyes

Adieu,

change.

have

only

game

we

under

September

Goethe
me

went

said

with

that

about

Coblenz,

to

note

and

and

felt deep

"

So

was

if he

taken

was

very' ill-mannered

sent

"

she

longer

of

journey

Merck,

'

it, I have
I

sent

is

He

[Buff]

Frau

by

Lange

maid:

Goethe

to

good-bye.'

'

It

leave

Lottchen
teach

not

the

gone,'

Hans

gone.

you

came

also

and

after

did

"Why

that

Goethe

'

Doctor

saying

But

morning

word

send
of

it.

say:

really

good-bye

say

books

Soon

since

long

Doctor

the

sent

your

'

better?

tottchen, in
had

to

reply:

the

Herr

were

without

way

back

nephew

occasion

He

for

the

it would

dejected.

me

In

saw

quite

had

this

'

that

ask

not

expected

soul.

to

morning

take

unprepared

knew

and

should

I had

office.

came

in

he

that

o'clock.'

ten

at

This

had

should

the

There,

military paymaster,

in my

the

from

"

He

he

notwithstanding,

home
this

the

diary.

taking leave.

time

off suddenly.

set

I was,
felt

where

him,

expected
but

this

his

books.

some

never

of

stage

find,

we

without

away

note

1772

ii,

shall

in

"

this

at

consult

to

adieus!

attitude

that

happy

am

believe

you

thousand

Kestner's

For

Lotte,

that

BUTTER

AND

BREAD

I, dear

indifferent, and
your

CUT

order

Goethe's,

there.
.

to

be

to

Every

his
one

125

sure,

sent

house.

of

the

box, which
He

was

children

no

was

GOETHE

'

saying

tears

was

gone,

We

spoke only

came

she

as

days later
and

had

neck

way)

fled,
the

magnanimous

few

tears

literallyas
bread

and

wrote

an

as

butter."
did

immortal

of

desired.
of anything

she

it

not

book

walk

novel

and

"

from

not

owed

more

shoot
about
126

terial
ma-

came

he

For

has

betrothed,

having

on

gone
must

lover

wept

situation, has

"

himself
a

"

self
himhfc^jiftiown

the

there

getting

that

Lotte,
to

of

mere

and

Kestner's

and

"

fell

together."

for

end.

Secretary

He

life out

adventure
now

scribable
inde-

an

emotion

metaphorically
Yet

was

the

who

sister,he

writes.

of

would

duty,

in Frankfort

be

propensity

amorous

still

which

well

Goethe

he

Schlosser,

me

for

out

yoimg

magnanimous
the

glad he

Goethe's

to

amount

chapter
his

was

as

reading,

was

to

upon

For

distinct

of every

this

what

squeezed

hero

possible

out

him

fellow

went

the

(with

greatest
"

"

almost

we

were

poet-man

his

calling

good

and

If Goethe

she

She

covild I think

engaged

the

Later

'.
.

Yet

happened

poet himself.

my

me.

neither

Kestner

joy,"
upon

give

Goethe.

and, while

eyes.

him,

there, while

the

from

note

not

recently become

found

the

her

noon
after-

the

In
...

him."

else than
Ten

'

departure,

could
of

FRIENDS

gone!

the

his

into

the

WOMAN

is

Lotte

about

sorry

HIS

Goethe

Doctor

brought

I
was

AND

be

cutting
just

cause
be-

but, instead,
who

did.

WHO

CHARLOTTE,

Perhaps

this

Thackeray's

is

CUT

BREAD

good

as

place

BUTTER

AND

as

to

any

deliciously hvimourous

version

quote
of

that

book.

had

Werther
Such

words

as

Would
She

Charlotte

moral

Till he

man

more

wealth

Like
Went

this is not

development

in

well

enough

is with
than
was

and
to

with
that

The

the

-Goethe

butter."

Frankfort,

and

of
such.

as

That

well
is to

butter.

What
as

say

127

in

he

plot-

Werther

it

For

concern

the

our

novel

may

rather

actually happened

Charlotte

his

hammered

of the

outUne

Sorrows

itself.
as

body

person.

people pictured

novel

out

shutter.

on

here

serve

real

the

his

seen

accurate

an

bubbled,

and

it troubled.

by

her

her.

ogled,

and

cutting bread

Though

hurt

to

well-conducted
on

Indies,

sillybrains

was

before
a

of

pined

Charlotte,having
Borne

butter.

Werther,

was

his

her?

lady,

passion boiled

blew

no

and

married

sighed and
his

And

first he met

nothing for

do

he

And

how

for all the

Would

So

was

utter;

never

cutting bread

was

And,

for Charlotte

could

know

you

And

love

went

Goetz

"

cut

bread

quietly back
von

Berlich-

GOETHE

AND

be

life

social

the

he

sure

did

and

Wetzlar

of

place

not

Lotte's

of

silhouette, he
it still

and

visit

"

calls

You

bodies

why

hand,

the

many

become
Two

take

good

and

adoration
human
child

creature

of
"

in
whom
The

cult, it will be

incidents,
'

Goethe

und

her

there
Kest-

worship

to

was

her.

If bones

touched

their

preservation,
touched

who

led

arms,

and

adoration:

woman

careful

you,

you

you,

by

perchance,
of

Charlotte

the

asked
has

seen.

however,
Werther

of

have

creature

as

which

"

(in August,

for

care

the

goes

the

to

nurse

I shall

favour?
a

childhood

rags

bury

duly delighted,

is

the

the
you

bom

much

lifeless

1773,

shall hang

how

deserve

carried

and

baby

fully
care-

and

imagine

and

not

"

ous
vari-

14,

to

comes

burst

that

saints

of

April

passionate

this

out

can

and

me

he

Charlotte's

from

1774)

first

him

after

day

place

the

When

is named

ners

the

in its

hangs

till I die."

but

does

Kestner

intends

he

wedding,

says,

it he

to

the

occupies

Sunday,

Palm

After

back

wandered

keeps

he

of

longingly

too,

and

room

which

about

informed.

day

his

in

obeisances

the

silhouette,

To

home-town.

least, he

at

pretty girls

think

to

soon

was

the

in

busy

his

cease

once,

honour

printer, and

the

of

Charlotte's

there.

FRIENDS

WOMAN

wholesomely

himself

interesting
and

for

shape

into

ingen

HIS

helped

by A. Kestner, p.
128

to

213.

crystallize

GOETHE

mother's

Rath

agility.

and

and

with

considerable

good

enough
Goethe

like
Maxe

well

her

the

an

of

her

made

grace

this

writes
is

story
been

very

plumes, just then,

for

been

the

ing
interest-

an

Her

interesting daughter.

Roche, and

curiosities

of

those

be

may

of

in

known

to

lish
Eng-

Sternheim.

Dr.

Gutermann

of

betrothed

in

seventeenth

her

All

students.

Augsburg,

demanded

that

preparations

indeed

marriage

when

children

the

to

interested

Sophie

Miss

like

who

year

physician, Bianconi, of Bologna,

father's
for

had

Brentano

an

Memoirs

Italian

to

his

have

novels, especially that

daughter
had

as

La

literary

out

Sophie

and

sun

Bettina

But

peacock

Roche

Sophie

up

The

all that

It would

true.
on

La
as

was

as

be

the

admired

take

to

in

throw

to

Roche.

mother

search

skated

reservation.

put

Maximiliane

look

he

Maximiliane

has

to
to

La

name

while

One

FRIENDS

WOMAN

bright-coloured cloak

shoulders

Frau

the

HIS

handsome,

his

over

AND

one

been

had

Bianconi

denly
sudall

should

be

brought

up

in the

the

daughters

the

father,

as

Roman

following
then

was

Sophie's father,
furious
coni

the

Sophie

at

this

the
the
a

was

church, instead

mother

zealous

the whole

the

mixed

but

at

sons

was

BiaA^

forbidding
matter

of

riages.
mar-

Protestant,

broken-hearted,
130

and
in

custom

stipulation and,

house, declared
herself

Catholic

an

she

end.
none

GOETHE

From

SKATING
the

AT

painting by

FRANKFORT.

Kaulbach.

MAXIMILIANE

LA

ROCHE

BRENTANO.

CHARLOTTE,
the

less

refused

To
her

WHO

to

divert

in

marriage
only

and

into

Roche,

who

undertake

the

for

her

writing,

in

was

school

was

journey

England

then

wearing

together,

here

do

with

"

Werther
She

is

and

bien

now

sweetness,

supplicating

eyes

for

her

de

glad

to

An

found

was

her

of the

quaintance
ac-

mental
senti-

private life also

when

in

out

was

life.

to

taken

she
to

made

Miss

see

the

service

joyfully morbid
which

Though

is
it

in

rather

of

hour

given by
has

is worth

passage

really
"

In

of

the

is

his

had

Diary.

Goethe

but

made

1786

herself

account

her

it

because

"

"

in

her

leaders

was

(he

Hofrath

Goethe

two

striking

Bumey
to

the

of

time

and

but,

thrust

experiences

In

found

son,

father

willing

prevailing.

to

Charlotte,

Queen

Miss

then

being

soon

him

arms

of the

one

visit

to

Hearts

love

sentimentalist.

Burney,

the

at

sent.
con-

of Wieland,

with

reconciling

unhappy

she

she

of

sent

pastor's

only

not

father's

home

her

waiting

task

and

this

-penniless)

was

her

Sophie's

impossible

the

BUTTER

poet.

of

AND

was

the

rebound

then

seventeen

outlet

the

being

she

as

possession

unfeelingly
La

mind

Biberach,

at

on

the

without

celebrated

so

easily caught
itself

BREAD

maxry
her

grandparents

afterwards

CUT

ing
noth-

quoting

tone

with

of

ing
touch-

Sorrows."

passee
of

favour,

yet has

dovelike
and
131

an

voice

gentleness, looks
"

air and

demeanour

GOETHE

thought herself,
her

of

heroine

in

the

tr"s-ch"re,

famous

oOl

"

un

Madame

then

his
and

of

prudence

himself

the

for

adventures,

de

in

their

piety

to

looking down

their

of

and

various

an

union

his

g6nie!

132

et

d'un

tre?
rencon-

aimer?

vous

actress;

her

own

her

fan,

their

first

ment,
attach-

Uterary
from

fame

motives

of

change

transformations

conduct;

Ma
aven-

mutual

voluptuousness,
with

be

amant

son

upon

talents, his

friends;

loss

M.

not

ses

related

She

of their

her

bad, in life and

they

ga."

tout

gradations

breach

de

oti I'avez-vous

recital.

body's
any-

bien!

d'un

"

commenc6

extraordinary

to

with

Eh

peu

nounced
an-

dinary
extraor-

fallen

c'dtoit

Burney,

Roche,

the

the

name;

from

to

La

began

interview,

"

un

ch"re?

peu

most

they would

story.

qu'il a

est-ce

contez-nous

that

done

ma

la Flte

connected

so

can

youth

replied that

plus extraordinaire

bien,

had

Roche

his

contez-nous

le
Eh

feu!

that

author,

Miss

the

in her

Madame
had

early part,

chere

Thomme

had

La

and

romance,

has

favourite

of the

attractions

adventures

intelligible without

ma

had

Madame

their

Wieland,

she

she

suppose

life,the model

friend

her

life and

lot.

can

of fascinating."

that

tures;

FRIENDS

WOMAN

favourite

that

short

nothing

all her
own

readily believe

were,

HIS

tenderly caressing. I

most

the

AND

acter
char-

consoling

in
his

various

from

marriage

good
with

CHARLOTTE,
M.

La

WHO

Roche,

mother

was

their
of

circumstances.
A

lady

to

find

for

turn

to

letter

introduced
event

of

to

to

herrings and

Roche

allowed

meiz, who
the

agreeable house

of

these

have

to
to

go

herself

family:

It

be

regrets.

trying

terrible

scenes

Goethe

is
the

harpsichord

and

the

already

Mama

the
133

La

M.

by

Du-

have
have

and

an

seen

jocularity
magnificent
There

know

but

she

of

her

burden

friend

children, and
with

barrels

to

not

the

under

sad

fortune, and

their

I do

us

who
a

their Dulnesses.

amuse

overwhelmed

plays with

dame's

to

was

shouldst

enduring

here

let

amid

the

idle talk

the

against

It

himself

Thou

in

called

score

that

but

concerned.

persuaded

for

visit.

"

seems

be

but

by Merck,

friend

our

In

way

was

that

the

nothing

to

she
are

his wife

to

of the

we

on

expect

she.

was

as

to

visit

not

daughter,

that

cheeses.

merchants:

been

may

he

written

head

dinners, and

Nor

Maxe,

of

emotions

should

we

second

particular advantage

making

she

attendant

tenderest

information

considered

her

when

all

something

friends,

Goethe
me

hear

marriage

first-hand
a

her

books

off her

intimate

And

meeting,

mother.

shall

we

the

her

by

in

married

it is with

of

devoted

very

she

BUTTER

children, and

lavish
and

chapter

which

AND

subsequent

three

thus

conversation

later

BREAD

' '

in

CUT

of the

family;

accompanies

bass-viol.

M.

MaBren-

GOETHE

although

tano,
him

of

AND

few

there

came

Herr

Brentano

"

it.

its

pleasure

to

Goethe

that

from
at

you

the

issue
were

that

print, and

before

from

if

me

you,

shall

the

have

let

had

hear

proved

overstrained,

until
134

It

in

is

nothing

even

reply

angry

Let

that

writing

I must

my

can.

as

Accordingly

"

heart.

wife

have
in

1774)

"

you

me

his

and

case.

ones,

every

weeks.

husband:

dear

of
four

had

the

not

Werther

they would
he

as

the

firmly

finish

in

writing (October,

come

house

Kestner

sent

my

of which

to

in

the

-ensued

diversions

was

reading it

published; forgive

till the

again.

manuscript

Charlotte's

I pray

it

of

upon

there

the

of

mood

it

because

result

off from

naively

once,

it may

nothing,

quent
fre-

however,

put

wife

out

the

however,

was,

rebuke

as

author

in

to

"

autumn

assuming

find

we

should

and

chose

his

enter

himself

completed

Such

he
for

just in

following

much

which

to

was

shutting

copy,

is fond

pleasant relation.

Kestner,

no

flung himself

publication
a

he

wedding,

this

to

moments

never

he

end

Goethe

terrible

he

kind
The

violent

of

determined
Now

Italian,

an

that

the

after

was

poet

young

jealous for

weeks

friendship
certain

FRIENDS

positively

interpretation

the

WOMAN

house."

the

and

rather

wishes

and

Only

HIS

your

by

write
ones,

done, it
me

from

to

is

hear
you

sions
apprehenmeans

of

CHAPTER

VII

LILI

"

LiLi

last,

loved,"

truly

"

Eckermann;

agitated

since

for

old

the

none

after

happiness
this

love

had

it

painfully
style.

my
fourth
find

this

that

love
Let

in

"

never

so

epoch,

at

of
love

the

it has

future

some

Dichtung
is

delicate,

und

something

it is

the

so

poet

the

and

him

near

time

affection

My

in

now,

Yet

agitated

dttring

in

Goethe's

been

"

even

happy

had

as

asserts.

in

hear

to

have

of

for

her

something
of

representation
an

influence

time,

you

Wahrheit

upon

read

the

you

will

different

very

from

novels."
turn

us

have

something

When,

volume

which

heart,

own

my

that

peculiar,

that

Lili," he

for

about

so

"

love

to

trivial

literally.

too

interesting

the

eighty,

at

twenty-five.

when

taken

distinctly

and

said

was

is the

which

superficial
this

she
declared

inclinations

were

be

add

day

one

the

course,

cannot

less

discussing

the

Of

and

age

aU

also

can

Goethe

heart

my

comparison."

first, and

the

was

One

to

the

evening

Lili

episode
friend

136

in

the

entreated

raphy:
Autobiogme

to

go

LILI

him

with
of

an

It

was

little

eminent

spur

We

the

enough

to

she

"

obliged

was

and

constrained

the

After

of

it I moved

first

my

made
to

I did

mine.

closely
turn,

but

had

the

was

ments
move-

were

tin-

saw

I took

something

me;

her

that

she

it all in

was

good

graceful
137

to

merely

we

for

position

observing
part since
look

at.

have

managed

She
her

that

me

also

should

kept

civil

some

it gave

of

close

the

uttered

talent.

reply and

wards
to-

conversation,

pleasure

her

stepped

At

and

with

with

clever
I

near

there

playing

meet

further

what

tellingher

very

and

be

might

and
in

to

nearer

acquainted

make

only

I stood

bearing;

commenced.

acquaintance

me

finished, she

without

somewhat

compliment,

the

manner

piano

already

had

quartet

which

grace.

that

make

to

was

the

saluted, however,
a

numerous.

easy.
sonata

end

the

her

in

childlike

something

sitting

was

and

and

form

the

on

immediately,

fadUty

her

observe

at

piano,

decently

spacious

down

sat

of the

end

lower

the

at

but

company

considerable

with

played

house

him

chamber

middle

the

in

the

of

daughter

The

family.

stood

piano

entered

everything

do

with

I went

ordinary

the

"

persuasion.

refonned
to

house

in the

given

I loved

as

usual.

floor,
of

but

moment,

ground
room

of the

of the

as

be

to

merchant

dressed

concert

already late;

the

on

to

me

as

very

I, in

Meanwhile

my

GOETHE

gazed

as

we

an

attractive
of

about

AND

at

the

must

confess

when,

on

seemed
of

friendliness

The

here

visited

D'Orville, who,

large banking

this

source

time

nearly

family with
an

four

excellent

standpoint.
he

business

chief

But

contracted

soon

mother

often.

possession
of

admirer's

of

Frau

she

had

on,

To

win

was

not

habit

been

Kom

could

girl

the

in mind

she, in return,

feeling deeply

the

magic

charm

be

that

and

girl had

and

in

worldly

the

visiting her

was

but

not

of his heart

138

Lili

only

this

the

which

wealth.

from

for

partner,

market

the

strong liking for

nee

widow

silent

with
of

The

1775.

Schonemann,

her

Goethe

personality.

to

Elizabeth

Day

family

for

the

some

vividly described,

seventeen,

sons.

it

as

the

on

of the

thing

(Anna

Lili

Year's

still carried

years,

at

though

with

the

intervals."

New

that

was

stand
under-

to

me

fail,therefore,

simply and

on

displeased

request

not

with

so

occurred

probably

suitable

But

again, while

me

the'

I did

manner.

Schonemann),

in

but

gave

see

vented
pre-

evening.

anything

join

meeting

first

the

that

to

moving

performance

her

was

soon

to

visits at

my

was

they hoped

daughter

twelve

and

approach

that

The

gentlest kind.

company

feeling

of

conscious

was

taking leave, the mother

that

house

of the

further

FRIENDS

WOMAN

another

one

power

any

repeat

HIS

gave

of her

her

taken
dence
evinew

LILI

Already
touched

her

it she

heart.

this

heart,

Now,

it

every

inward

told

the

me

too,

deny

not

certain

them

that

herself

point,

had

been

flowed

powerful
charming

with

the

cared

her

in

youth.

of and

about

as

she

she

made
the

them

with

could

139

to

herself

which,

we

had

attraction
not

which
been

scholars, clergymen
the things dear

could

of

letting
at

exercised

by

last
this

it in

that

These

me.

and

the

at

came

for

childlike

entirely her own."

me

had

Lili

nesses,
weak-

she

in

pure

surrotmdings
He

closures?
dis-

in turn
so

such

hour

quiet

ptmished

from

of

Little
.

thus

on

been

was

her.

mutual

remarked

that

"

girl, he

social

of life to
among

forth

to

peculiar faculty

ing
interest-

talk

among

often

of the

we

my

in this view

morally

could

attracted

by them

this

move

had

knowledge

were

prattling

too, but

that

Yet

breath

of

had

again. By

me,

nature,

up

for

tells

of

strength

coming

imited

was

confessions

for

she

important

gift on
she

how

thought

were

the

gift of attracting others,

go

to the

But

knew

she

On

long before

history

time,

same

mine

not

was

before

called, and

and

had

none

Autobiography

then

without

matters

but

The

credit

was

way.

It

"

me

Lili's conversations
in

however,

in love.

gave

as

suitors

many

happened:

writings people
human

had

actually

was

how

us

Lili had

him

and
and

Goethe

felt

patiently put
were

as

accustomed
officials
who

the
to

who

respected

GOETHE

what

had

he

there

for

laced

the

the

literary

lion

not

least

Lili,to be
when

he

sure,

he, too, should

evening
homes

was

dance
from

he
she

the
"

to

go

out

had

been

could

led

thus
lines

She

She

for

love.

look

in, ere

has

drawn

follow

her

visibly, as

Cruel

maid,

I must

Uve

Ah, how

against my

her
as

charms

she

would

great the

Love, when

bound

we

see

wilt

Frauengestalten

will.

change

thou

von

140

me,

have

set

Adolf

me,
me.

to
me

me

free?

"

Stahr, Vol. I, p.

her.
the

me

enslave

the

in

skill,

or

circle round

fast

me

Cf. Goethe's

strength

she

fashionable

through

him

chafed

But

quiet hour

of the

to

has

were

insisting that
to

but

magic thread

defies my

Holds

"

he

him

tions
poetic aspira-

with

That

him

deep humanity.

ready

choose

not

as

capture

steadfast

opened

he

home!

dances, they

another

or

and

was

attitudes

somewhere

himself
one

he

honour

his

sincere
himself

at

the

to

his warm,

to

over,

which

Though

with

make

and

him

do

snares

her

dress

Buffs

Schonemann

might

him

gave

wanted

always

must

the

imderstand

to

rest,

the

or

receptions and

able

the

what

for

wore

lay

sympathize

to

or

he

even

guest for their

in the

liked

was

people there
and

the

as

different

For

accomplish.

to

coats

How

Though

he

s, where

FRIENDS

WOMAN

households

such

assumed.

as

HIS

able

been

were

Schonkopf
not

AND

220.

LILI
"

Not

yet,"

set

free he

he

ever

had

been

who

for years

and

had
is

It

had

and

maid

Goethe

upon

to

the

the

betrothal

previous love-affairs,had
saying
she

word

interviewed

introduced

the

talked
walked

the

of

thing

over

with
the

the

this

and

he,

forced

in

aU

his

out
With-

(to

and

consent

wrung

then, having

also,
and

evening

one

tmsuspecting

had

he

Schonemann

Frau

room

whom

this in mind),

with

kind

to

which

in hand

parents

some

peremptorily

in

babyhood.

parties chiefly concerned

not

into

way

which

though

straight

woman,

successfully avoided.

Goethe's

her

them

from

to

her

situation

to

Schonemanns'

from

the

than

Mademoiselle

of the

LiU

see

being

came

now

certain

friend

loved

took

there

energetic business

been

known

old

fair

of

closely bound

more

For

an

qtiite amusing

brisk

be

to

Easter

Heidelberg,

Instead

answer.

before.

for the

of

made

indeed,

was

Frankfort
DeU

love

said

"Join

lovers:

hands."
"

the

I stood

opposite

After

mine.
into

was,

but
a

seemed

to

appeared

now

so

to

stiU

speak,

arms.

offered

Lili and

Autobiography,
slowly, placed

long breath

other's

each

before

she

in the

poet relates

hesitatingly,

to

we

fell with
If

...

my

her
"

my

and
her

hand,"
she,

not

hands

in

great emotion
loved

one

had

beautiful, graceful, attractive,

me

worthy

double
141

and

superior being.

person;

her

grace

She
and

AND

GOETHE

loveliness

were

HIS

dignity of character,

her

in

every

as

long

interest

perceived that it

he

get

"

her

this yoting

few

weeks
SteUa

in

should

day,

be

have
into

man

somewhat
he

that

to

really

was

before

his

betrothal

(under

the

guise

fool

condition

Goethe

would

chafed

allow

to

stifles

of all its courage,

not

was

much

so

found

nor

between

longed

to

take

to

all

shuts

wife.

desperate

myself

in,

me

of
to

powers,

my

/ must

he

was

him

her

when

to

(he
he

the

while

be

the

in
142

that

and
he

had

he
LUi

letters

to

in

been

Lili's
not

was

man

her

tions
friendly rela-

truly

But

that

us

saw

it

household

declaring

tells

because

again free.

the

really resented

put

either

own

All

efforts

he

establish

to

his

be

of

it

was

impossible

he

LiU

proud

always

society);

that

which

through

was

him,

with

into the free world."

paces
he

in

as

known

little woman,

already

times

This

soul

out

It

that

Only

fettered.
my

I beheld

own.

share

had

only goad

exclaimed

Fernando)

robs

but

worthiness
trust-

rejoiced in it

DelE

must

several

fast.

had

be

her

I should

clever

bond

him,

bound

it and

of which

better, she, being

show

self-reliance,her

remained

Mademoiselle

if

slipping

before;

as

Ihved."

as

But,

her

way

this, I understood
capital the

I felt

that

mine,

now

FRIENDS

WOMAN

ready
making

was

would
the

that

have

Countess

GOETHE

Lili's

in

to

to

with

Carnival-Goethe,
few

you

sometimes

who

"

But

with

brown

detects

the

his

whom
who

the

the

his

forms

ascends

ideal, but

he
a

to

you,

your

ence
pres-

beaver

gray

coat,

already

freshening February

world

wiU

his

air, to

soon

now

working

to

household

asking

of all that

no

the

according

beloved

what

at

in

to

boots, who

and

of his friends

paper;

ever

write

reopen,

in

himself,

sometimes

power,

feelings of youth in little poems,

gray

he

present
forth

strong spices of life in various

the

and

wide

express

innocent

again

in

in

living, striving and

to

the

have

cannot

is another,
necktie

spring
dear

ever

seeks

silk

frivoHty paying

because

you,

to

quite tmbearable.

there

now

thence

lately stammered

forgets

by

dissipation,

from

of

you

feelings,who

feels himself

he

card-table

the

and

by

chandeliers,

varying

interest

who

gloomy

at

in

Blondine,

pretty

head

from

and

sconces

concert

all the

my

finery, illuminated

and

eyes,

yourself,

to

otherwise

coat,

consistent

company

ball, and,

court

laced

people, kept

pair of beautiful
from

picture

splendour of
of

FRIENDS

WOMAN

can

tolerably

all kinds

driven
a

HIS

you

in

unmeaning

amidst
a

If

Goethe

foot

the

"

sake:

dear,
to

AND

his

goods

neither

does

and

will

on

last.

144

chalk

right

Because

or

nor

upon

left,

working
will

leap

playing will leave

his

step higher, because

fighting and

dramas,

neighbourhood

with

the

times
some-

he

LILI

feelings
is

from

whose

suddenly
to

develop

to

in

themselves

mind

you

are

early morning

summons

it
who

absent,

never

feels

He

activity.

to

to

write

who

and

you.
"

Moreover,

where
I

you

think

if it

it would

are,

of

you

And

nearness.

through
'Tis

all

make

feel

to

and

indeed!

to

but

me

as

"

surely

remain

unalterable.

"

hand-kiss

one

when

equality, love,

hurly-burly,

"

me

difference;

no

nothing

remain

so

whirl

well,

disclosed

were

Farewell.

"

Goethe."
None

of

Goethe's

entirely

Augusta

von

had

him

in

and

course,

immensely

he

felt

her

either

the

perl

my

hand?
And

that

there

write

How

constantly
The

now!
danced
among

which

again for

out

was

of

was,

tion
introspec-

easy.

Because

necessity of

showing

wasn't

happy

happy
as

She

if he

morbid

to

so

with

her.

saw

writing

was

I not

never

self-consciousness

constant

letter

that

as

letter, however,

found

he
a

he

conducive

we

was

call to

the

such

first

who

youth

should

Why

you.

this

tmder

have

we
"

her

for

"

is

women

sentiment

mere

Stolberg

happy,

in

of

thing

asked

friendships with

or

March

this

of

to

you?

have

so

I have

6, 1775:

why

lay

often
been

down

reached

thinking

twenty-eighth

of

of

ruary
Feb-

the

close

the first in the

145

of
room,

the

carnival.

walked

up

and

GOETHE

down

surrounded

home,

talked

much

on

is the

morning,

to

What

such

at

your

eyes.

Good

while

writing.
To-day
always

must

too

it is

distance

I wish

Adieu.

You

do

you

man?

of

get better

as

since

me.

in

repose

came

I left it and

to

is overstrained.

date;

as

I tell you,

kind

I think.

joy and

position

heart

I should

head

but

you,

present

is the

much

shall

hand,

your

thought

the

next

Remain

sixth of March,

write

The

my

What

vain, my

then

you.

tell you

God!
I

and

write

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

you

Love!

rest

night.
In

with

me?

cotild

Great

me.

quite

know

of

going

was

I cannot
not

HIS

thought

and

love

AND

great

pleasure.
"

Good

erecting
and

I have

and

then
"It

but

building

no

another
I

obliged

to

it is

you,

not

chin,

the

day;

I have

drama

have

146

thought

these

nose,

of

you

written
die!

for

lips,

whole!

has
scene.

Soon

of

head,
fore-

dear
the

To-day

you.

I shoiild

now

way;
door-

intellectual

nobility

drawn,

again

the

thanked

yet

pure

of the

love, thank

my

write

firmness

well-defined

wonderful

I did

sweet

I had
This

sister

my

garden

under

standing

not

silhouette.

Thank

remain

that

your

the

going into

was

to

me,

you.

Much

Thought

this

to

are

awakened

I will write

raining hard.

you!

this

word

who

carpenters

there, have

over

in bed.

rest

is night;

was

The

dear.

morning,

been

If
I will

LILI

send

you

and

drama

to

to

The
the

and

and

Lili, he
The

frankness

which

period, made

Uke

calls

Jacobis)

is

of

writes

uncle
"

with

stress

is

Frederika.
whom

Fahlmer,

Johanna

the

Stella

But

is like

his

Stella,

and

this.

only

few

friends, the

of his

of Femando's

character

to

her

but

wife,

this

March,

1775,

Schonemanns

at

Bernard.

This

drew

against

him

was

the

time.

One

of

shows

that

he

the
one

his will."
147

letters

an

he

these, dated
is the

beautifvil estate
of the

after

her

think

of

some

woman.

until

would

one

from

standing

older

an

Fahlmer

Fraulein

met

about

make

to

necessary

episode,

long

Offenbach,
the

also.

for

storm

aunt

loves

in

Goethe,
his

the

was

by

Frederika

(because, though

the

not

Wetzlar

aunt

deeply

personages

Cacilie

that
"

Tante

coloured

had

Goethe

Lili

than

which

it

whom

"

senior, she

his

years

of

Lili

relations

Goethe;

conceal

to

probable, indeed,

Goethe

the

effort

is Stella

into

now

chief

characterized

no

more

It is

he

Frederika.

Cadlie,

Swift's

still loves

three

..."

project himself

to

clearly: for Fernando,

for

much

the

sit opposite

alluding

situation

able

he

could

heart!

is here

that, though

of

undoubtedly

was

that

thinks

are

Lili;

he

that
in your

Vanessa,

fact

prototypes

play

which

to

of the

reason

it out

abundantly

felt

Goethe

Wotild

work

of it

germ

Stella

to

written.

one

you

places

of
to

guest
Lili's
which

GOETHE

"

"

In

seen.

three

day, too!
be

! !

Take

"she

occasion

how

better
the

himself

free

of this

violently

off.

to' visit

he

him

the

made

perhaps

"

always
the
that

he

this

time

to

going
that
"

Herder,

ago

and

fashion

he

with

the

sorrow

flung

ball

of
out

go

nearer

firm
the

again

came

them

with

his

father

had

settling down
he

friends
and

the

against

it

to

said
at

was

the

the

wall

thought

earth, but

148

the

May,

significant admission

footing

on

himself

Switzerland,

away

sister

women.

corning
and

the

made

into

grow

of

to

of his
his

wrench

takes

which

some

visit

to

play

was

and

"

Stolberg

visit before

To

happiness
joy

should

of life.

shuttlecock
time

country

he

middle

to

to

will

their way

on

Italy,

was

same

certain

angel

an

Friedrich

resolve

he

business

the

desperate

meant

on

which

unless

and

Frankfort

to

Sim-

this

his mind

up

in

when,

So

at

On

to

that
as

attachment,

Christian

Counts

two

made

spite of him,

in

already-

beautiful."

less, he has

-marriage

she

heart, it will

your

beautiful

as

knew

Lili.

see

Lili

of

dear

has

later letter

says

to

he

she

to

girl
In

he

was

than

None

hope

both,"

soul

sympathetic

the

her

which

of

me,

in

new

telling

act

hours

for you

good

and

after

Stella, one

like

FRIENDS

WOMAN

wonderful

confides,

he

would

HIS

is much

There

Aunt,"

AND

haven
in
am

wide

of

the
in
sea.

and
short

tic
domes-

gentiine
miserable
Thus

GOETHE

AND

LILI.

GOETHE

AND

made

he

Strassburg

during

the

from

Stein.

Goethe

in the

retinue

him

of

"

how

the

the

world

is

makes

who, when

talk

could

of

herself

She

assumed
fact
with
love

whom

Goethe

at

so

the

kept apart
No

sooner

by cold
was

one

suited

to

stem

sad

Autobiography

that

back
150

how

the

effective

the
none

time

or

him

as

truth

they

than

sister

tmhappy

and

that

calculations
he

sees

through

he

lovely girl.

in marriage
be

to be

seems

see

Emmendingen,

at

sweet

would

telling just the

was

this

Wolfgang

really

was

of

than

tinhappy

matter

to

by Goethe's

her

he visited

married

her

She

Still another

made

was

lose

to

under

it

if

general impression- she

most

was

that

of the

the

little else

if he

be

would

Lili

poor

until,

soul.

sees

was

prevent

him

wrote

this

she

yet

of gentleness."

one

ComeHa,

he

von

who

glorious spectacle

while

"

Frau

not

it caused

itself in

mirrors

love,

against

move

be

showed

shadow-picture

Then

it is and

as

of

medium

It would

world

this did

words,

sleep.

of

At

famous

lady's husband,

her

own

the
who

that

Dtike, but

over

his

nights

portrait:

in

of the

trust

may

three

them

this

met

poring

from

we

had

of

Hanover,

silhouettes, among

ten

jotirney.

this

acquaintance

physician, Zimmermann,
him

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Goethe

befell

also

thing

HIS

same.

and

she

Yet

the

of the

women

fell in

another

Lili.

was

when
"

were

he
two

He

wrote

lovers

of reason."
he

knew

that

his

LILI

longing for the

diminished

his

by

from

her.

when

she
her

from

girl had

He

period

could

desk

own

not

and

so

him

find

we

Frankfort

in

stay

now

the latter place, to the

at

than

self-imposed separation

of

in Offenbach

was

rather

increased

been

writing
Countess

Augusta:
"

One

word

that
I

hand-clasp.
I

shall

writing-case

these

Oh

that

discord.

What
the

of

room

delicate

yet

the

I trouble

days

the

of

I!

I wandered

thousand

child,

as

night,

on

the

terrace

think

of

you!

So

I and

everything

I find

table,

the

yonder
"

N.

as

in the
with

all!

is better

Here

in

by

no

bright

off

for three

than

months

the

far!

for

become

perch.

I look

Main,

writing.

pocket-handkerchief,

At
and
and

snaky knot

and

And
.

as

Fritz

you
a

...

across

and

now

simple

as

the

on

itself in

entangles

And

senses.

then

And

air, absorbing

open

all my

parrot

by

atmosphere

no

be

oppression!

unhappy

In vain

Offenbach,

in

confined

straw

about

sittingagain

this

angel, whose

an

How

should

notes

me

one

objects

new

pretty

tell you

Fritz
.

jilted!]

[Fritzhad just been

am

soul
.

have

I could
makes

"

this

and

tears

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you.

little

girl who

faiilt of hers, with

to

Before

you!

to

free, only

be

may

nothing

say

only

and

penned;

can

her

name

heart

my

here

on

necktie,

and

girl'sboots.

the

dear

B.

To-day

we

are

going
151

to

ride.

I hear
...

AND

GOETHE

her

voice.

the

next

HIS

She

stay.

may

have

room.

FRIENDS

WOMAN

will

ready

get

described

to

the

spiritsby
find

around

looks

whom

Write

"For

to

The

to

asked

to

Adieu, Gustchen.
One.

few

to

see

later

Frau

he

has

Stein.

von

and

and

They

tmchanging

goodness;

indulgent

are

shall

we

soon

of LiK

What

sensitive

from

have

the

all this

woman

consciousness

her

follows:

as

of

continuance

amiability;
tion;
conversa-

good-will;- faithfulness;
he

How

accurately

from

her

shadow-picture

opportunity

an

(from

tears."

lady's character

this

read

resum6

self-sustaining

firmness;

generally with

conquers

the truth.

be

discovered

object; self-satisfaction;affectionate

innocence

difficulty,

no

to

adds

He

the physiognomist

thinks

amiable

Firmness;

have

Lili

that

riding habit.
we

has

he

that

declares

and

"

and

sends

he

qualities he

"

the

letters!"

my

confides

letter, in believing this

the

silhouette) in

he

her

in

is over-strained

days

of the

one

Lavater,

angel

an

read

we

as

no

pious again,

been

Hke
he

that

day,

next

looked

let

sake

1775.)

3,

recently

She

me.

her.

the

away

surprised

was

Restless

The

me.

God's

(August

missed

I told

drive

to

Lili

sight.

they had

writing.

was

order

of

sense

here;

me

in

me

how

you

...

it aU

in

while?

Was

be

would

that
152

to

her

very

lover

decide.
she suffering, as

likely
wished

to

suffer,
himself

LILI

of her

free

and

been

have

away?

of

had

read

his

strikingly long absence

fact, the
This

like

that

case,

they told
further

They

nothing

in

anyhow

what

could
to

that, if the

with

America
Had

these

this

that

Offenbach

together
Ewald,
beautiful

the
the

the

free

been

poet

much,

bore

declared

with

great

of

Augusta

he

wrote:

tears

153

of

the

marriage

ready

was

their

to

own

marriage

go

at

friend, Pastor

his

love

mony
cere-

they attended

and

exalted

"

clinatio
in-

them

between

situation

sweet

to

when

an

glowing

Strassburg days!

follow

experienced
side

to

abandoned

and

Goethe's

the

roving

whispering

that

at

this

deeply loved.

For

of

had

suffered

so

to

own.

uncertain

before

performed

wedding

cruelly, solemnly
Through

she

man

free.

their

very

she

home

September.

moment

Countess

even

is little doubt

have

would

was

point of

families

two

objections

at

been

two

there

the

She

from

himself
of

covert

she

relatives

in

set

in his

Lili, though

removed

to

betrayed

back

magnificently.

be

Her

was,

lay

also

had

Prederika

not

it

to

seems

concluded

the

that

was

Goethe

determination

what

future

of

had

and

that

out

There

all this

pitiful.

embroideries

and

kind

girl named

herself

with

common

position

trying

was

pointed

effect that

Through

he

her

poetic genius.
the

book

her

me

short

nothing
Goethe

To

loved
was

very

one.

in the

in

all

gazed

To
most

life.

my
on

the

AND

GOETHE

the

and

world

he

look

pray,

about

the
love

well.

as

costs!

! !

betrothed

due,

even

less

to

see

himself

stretch

no

of

Schonkopf
course

the

large number
Michaelmas
of

write

what

her

of

the

he

and

did

father

with

money

it

feels

least

society

mere

an

daughter

as

doing
was

coming
of

had

with

his

to

guests

fair.
of

he

forced

Again
the

in

fitted up

apartment

on

the

talked
The

wife.
him

to

to

and

again

house,
154

daughter
part of his
Katherine

at

home

the

Lili had

Goethe

afresh, just

to

prove
ap-

incongruity

Schonemann

brought

her

woman

could

imagination,

to

fitting

the

in

be

to

provide

not

which

installing this delicately reared

home,

time, by

Mama

us.

Goethe, though

trinkets

marry

His

of fortune, in

of this

the

no

Lili, considering her

by

my

much.

us

girl,had

rich

establishment.

ancestral

tells

easily

so,

it and

between

for

fashionable,

And
.

sentence

much

of

something

most

it.

Pray,

"

to

her

buy

of

nothing

last

This

is sacred

this

But

know

must

the

day

just like

out.

for

Fair

horn

Next
is

heart

My

only understand

You

elegant.

most

the

Finery, jewelry,

! ! !

mi!

"

was

forest
'

in, innerside

at

you

the

me

guests.'

wedding

outside

the

stocking,

about

soionded

Fahlmer,

Johanna

to

wrote

the

FRIENDS

everything

distance

noisy glee of

the-

WOMAN

and

moon

in the

soiolful while
and

HIS

city by

play

the

Goethe

this

of

the
r61e
was

LILI

obliged

hover

to

probably

was

in which

he

surround

which

she

this

at

letter

and

his

was

he

and

time

is

the

the Bear
loved

real

shown

September
he
love

he

is to

he

one

in

for

heart

that

and

saved,
Let

he

the

and

Half

jumping

"

in

varied

So

great

bear

She

lured

from

And

made

him

With

other

out

The

now.

and

his native

done?
rude
wood

live in unity

beasts

that

155

tamer

and
a

the

light

I
of

of

on

was

me."

this

markable
re-

it.

trow,

unlicked

been

that

made

be

something

this enchantress

has

wild

Lili's

my

with

bed
"

wrote

I did

menagerie,
as

what

And
A

no

past,

afternoon.

the

fine, and

There's

of

not

remainder

the

sionate
pas-

Once

have

yet

himself

he

as

past three

'

would

nineteen.

Offenbach.

week

out

days

which

consciousness

follow

five

costume

of the

mental

letter, of his

this

for

something

and

in

was

journal-

September

ball at

terms

however,

open

of

circus

his

the

during

his beloved

sudden

letter
"

animate

of mind

covering

to

masked

tells of

that

us,

social

distress

Lili, sometimes

to

he

day,

in

the

It

Menagerie,^

all the

Augusta

talking,

particularly good
next

Lili's

long rambling

fourteen
is

wear

confides

background.

among

Goethe's

Countess

Sometimes

the

wrote

physical peregrinations

from

was

in

queen.

deep

to

that

now

figturesas

which

How

gracefully

be."

to

morning
give

LiU

AND

GOETHE

little

"

this

play

put

of

going

now

at the

the

playing

am

Saw

pleasure.

dinner

evening

who

people

and

are

with

me!

little

writing

now!

table

from
for

"

Offenbach.

The

few

brothers

your

Rowed

at

two

to

learn

faro

and

good people.
to

eaten

poison;

everything
comes

in

to

it

fore.
be-

and

the

night

dark

banks.

and

all this

into

whilst

destroying

was

girlof

is

water
an

like

them.

hour

rat

who

its inside

156

with

has

hole, gulps down

every

ever3rthing eatable

fire.

or

good night

say
a

; I have

hotir

another
to

good

made

the

whom

singular

dozen

Played

away

When

Faust, passed

God

on

night.

at

dull.

she

I sit down

now

rtms

o'clock

myself.

row

to

is

with

moist, swallows
its way,

you

you;

down

dreamed

And,

Through

you.

and

up

sympathize

I wrote

just what

are

set

the

little to

there.

Amid

often

of my

company

who

by myself

whim

tell

in

from

10

scene

love

could

fellows

young

wrote

Dined

creature.

well,

Lili

see

again sitting at

by indifferent

idly, made

hours

17th,

to

writing

It

the

between

gone

I felt

got up

which

strangers.

to-morrow.

evening.

am

after

concert

of me,
I

Simday

has

day

on

to-day.

still twinkles

Main

not

the

fond

so

Adieu
.

in

very

is

It

in order

will go

Seven

Offenbach.

and

the

at

nor

about

friends

among

Offenbach,

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

visitors,wandered

fool

sheet

the

up

HIS

week

bums
ago

with

that

tinguishab
inex-

to-day Lili

AND

GOETHE

indifferent
remain

to

to

true

As

course.

again
to

her

in

these
was

so

she

can

never

her

now

words

this

it is

endured

on

presently, and

very

love

"

all sides

adds

shall

we

that

"

was

will
he

leave

actually

probably
the

never

end.

tell her

did.

On

that

Fahlmer

terribly this week,

he

that

wiU

he

was

Tante

likely

affairs

that

that, since

he

Whether

that

fact

writes

He

his

not

that

influence

him,

also

all about

of

one

he

but

Reticence

never

he

speaks

asserts

fiancee

to

all.

he

time

mother's

her

for
or

24. he

resisted."

his

told

imder

and

all

But

has

he

this
Duntzer

belong entirely

September
"

words."

much

expressed

but

their

following day

the

On

theatre

seven

once

know.

the

"

seven

she

will."

things take

let

be

But

hopeless.

become

and

could

she

when

heart, and

my

they

only

Gustchen,

Oh,

moment

and

Lili at

sees

the

me

FRIENDS

WOMAN

free of it.

were

for

tremble

yet

Would

nothing.

HIS

it

cerning
con-

Goethe's

faults.

Fate, however,
into

Goethe's

him

on

young
on

this
wife

their

very
Court.

should

way

which

hands,
occasion,

to

tu-gent in his wish

It

hold

made

was,

himself

August

Frankfort
and

Goethe

158

to

on

set

the

that
out

played
easy

for

and

his

October
Duke

should

therefore, arranged
in readiness

have

very

Karl

Weimar,
that

to

matters

also.

passed through
back

often

seems

12

was

come

to

the

poet

from

home

LILI

in

few

days,

call

for

him

Goethe
had

appear

but

confinement
himself

front

she

he

heard

could

word,

grating [the

vain

through
resolution

her, and
have

hear

my

the

catch
the
to

not

the

outline

me

to

in

down

were

in
the

at

the

and

piano

the

himself

song

drawest

tells

he
it
it

leave
159

with
so

my

dear

she

but

the

by

saw

that

got up

I tried

in

graceful figure

her

to

convex

floor] would

but

Nothing
away,

for

word

the

as

through

curtain

pression
ex-

more

plainly

close

the

in

us

with

groimd

of

her

burden

about

fotmd

forwards;

and

myself

tear

determined

it

ctutains.

thick

to

the

sung

fell upon

as

ear

on

backwards

walked
to

I could

had

she

wrapped

"

gave

was

room

stand

he

"Wherefore

own:

she

pressed

which

shadow
and

ever;

After

allow.

he

the

at

will?

"that

I had

for

it

in

again

could

longer,

help thinking,"

Autobiography,

he

curtains

his

my

not

than

himself

wandered

her

was

sang

against

me

and

The

which

"

cloak

of Lili's house.
but

show

no

noticing

windows

thou

house

Without

streets.

to

when

friends

all his

adieu

to

care

the

said

carriage

that

easily imagined

more

evening,

one

in

up

had

not

to

be

would

chagrin of

The

and

passed

may

He

naturally did

Frankfort,

had

Kalb

von

carriage.

new

week

to

Chamberlain

described.

than

and

with

when

failed

when

"

really

renounce

presence
a

firm

the

spot."

could
The

AND

GOETHE

also

few

with

in

of the

still there

cherries

with

the

enough

generous

to

trunk

all

packed

left the

town,

he

would

to

Italy.

After

proposal

October

30,
"

south.
we

read

the

in his

straightening
maid
in

out
a

he

up

if

time

"

have

to

his

son

have

to

of

best

his

Markt"
"

the

shop

an

"

Whoever

Lili

plumber's boy
and

greeted

of

No,

rain ; this
the

has
160

the

coming

said, there
such

his

of

morning

direction

(where

early morning

only

accepted

the

on

ofiE in the

set

prophetic

thought I,

the

make

early

Kom

diary,

in the

manner

when

and,

1775,

On

as

hesitation, Goethe

some

father's

better

eat

however,

was,

supposed

was

ancient

an

by taking his long-deferred trip

situation

awkward

and

hated

folk

that, inasmuch

say

his

had

He

Kalb

who

expect

must

month

von

common

faces.

their

in

flung

stones

they

Great

the

sotind

the

quoted

when

that

effect

the

to

of

of Herr

glee and

full of

was

end

news

this

tions.
inclina-

poet's father,

The

carriage.

proverb

no

came

In

amorous

the

passed,

ment,
com-

youth's

the

was

cause

admits.

he

as

his

balanced

aristocrats,

would

"

he

after

"

another,

days

new

town

him,

many

more

and

arrived

the

weighed

sense

common

or

left the

as

FRIENDS

WOMAN

reappearance

have

to

instance,

his

that

consideration

supposed

HIS

was

of

the

resided),
noisily

neighbour's
greeting

Ah,

day.
once

memories

was

was

should

LILI

nobody.

envy

Lili,adieu, Lili,for the second

"

adieu!
How

Goethe

going

is

Italy

to

left

Frankfort,

Karlsruhe;

the

land

of

DeH

by talking
He

the

for

he

and
her

to

willing to lend

than

to

Goethe

With

Frederika."

very

service

good

chance

with

urged that

his

journey

most

who

would

had

moiselle
Made-

of

heart

aching

his

in

anxiously

home

ease

he

arrive

been

the

from

reached,

was

not

to

to

to

who

gaining

Italy.

strenuously.
161

that
On

and

him

appealed

at

him

appalling
that, if he

girl,there

entrance

she
the

more

was

"resembled

she

to

him

to

between

match

this attractive

Not

she

behind,

moiselle
Made-

talk

to

care

explained

of his

brisk

the

by

because

Delf

Palatinate.

of the

Heidelberg

great emphasis

himself

unite

missing

acquaintance

deal

length Mademoiselle
would

his

to

hand

her

good

that

was

left

had
a

girl of

another

and

heard

he

did

she

he

maiden

the

several

Lili.

about

and, though

he

as

for

post-house

wanted

of

this

through

cordially received

was

about

had

Heidelberg

final pages

and

cavalier

of

objective point,

for which

carriage

Then,

waiting.

he
pass

when

there

note

that
must

so

his

all instead

in the

Heidelberg

was

friend

Weimar

For

was

One

after

delightfully told

Autobiography.

reasons.

Weimar

to

got

the

left

time,

was

into

would
contrary,

For, in Italy he

the

fere
intershe

could

AND

GOETHE

his

mature

"

"

Delf

plans,
do

to

for

before

the
with
to

Weimar

follow

she

foimd

If it is

that

mind

to

give

hoiir

to

the

the

new

burg, day
waited
had

he
and
a

to

hasty

for
gone

his

him;

then

by

dismay

had

and

She

not

162

from
do

leave

not

for
very

time

some

read

and

explained

was

had

waited

from

Strass-

guide
come

hour, just
sake

found

me

away

for

of

me

proposing

express,

letter;

comes

went

of Mannheim

way

up

to

after

the

the

Then
.

was

for

coming

it

and

happened

which

round

by

appeared

missing

day, hour

after

Delf

invitation

letter.

My

landau,

it before

thinking

had

blowing

light

myself.

all which

letter

me

of

conversation.'

naturally enough.
for

when

horn

Here's

an

our

remained

opening

without

disposed

by the

Surely

it says.

call to

reluctantly.

'

me

sleep, but

hands,

exclaimed,

what

an

in her

letter

her

of

to

o'clock

Mademoiselle

soon

me

it but

quarter

moiselle
Made-

sound

and

stopping

people.

I asked

"

were

one

awakened

was

was

teU

the

for him.

unfolding

parties

fell into

soon

bedside,
and

"

Very

read

late

about

was

looked

narrative,

certain

It

light and

my

girl who

...

who

house.

the
until

on

gone

long

very

"

the

her inclination

all that

me.

postilion

and

FRIENDS

art, while

explains

had

separated.

we

WOMAN

matured

night,"

One

her

of

views

like Frederika

HIS

as

some

we

had

business

to Frankfort

there.

that,

He
now

sent

the

LILI

mistake

explained,

was

him

save

the

shame

poet

read

I should

of

instantly return

going

"Weimar

to

and

without

me.

As

the

decided, strongly
put that
of

he

which
As

and

August's

he
he

told

in

expected

she

short

by ordering his

they had

Mademoiselle

coach, in due

than

words

of

of

time

running

of

our

to

muster

are

fate

from

rock

Bewildered,
as

her

"

Delf
to

he

nothing

from

is it

going?

whence
must

young

LUi's

steeds
chariot

for

but

us

reins, and
to

the

edge

of

an

"

friend

guest, after

left,

knows?

"Who

it came!

old

more.

light

the

sionate
pas-

no

fiery

right,now

of

protest

the

in

the

fast

away

handsome

of

left

here,

remember

think

Child, child,

the

indeed,

could

the

cut

post-coach.

torrent

with

he

point when

spirits the

hold

"Whither
we

her

urging

to

now

exclaiming

is

courage,

there.
can

direction

which

engage

her

away

there

wheels
a

Italy, to

try to dissuade

scene,

and

came

invisible

and
our

away

been

still

Egmont:

by

the

once

the decision

to

once

to

stemming

if lashed

Scarcely

servant

was

As

abyss

at

grandiloquently

guide

of

in the

two

or

excited

time,

of

way

by

at

Mademoiselle

word

an

Delf

better

When

began

and

no

ahnost

come.

him,

the

he

his face

turn

covtxt.

her

had

words

he felt the attraction

as

lure aside

Karl

entered

these

have

ies
deliver-

AND

GOETHE

of

himself

ing
into

the

up

have

resolved

made

resolution.

Friedrich

she

realized

her

in the

affection

tender

call

to

went

her

found

on

which

in

1779,

He

is

in the

Dorothea

that

other

none

warrant

for

being

elected

refuge
but

of

Paris

he

in

small

'

by

"

Life

For

of

tour

old

weeks
with

afresh

the

her

which

out

the

Goethe, by

of

Albert

164

his

took

also,

seemed

Bielschowsky,

to

Lorraine,

in

home,

servative
con-

he

time

owned

from

offence

gave

terrorists,who

after

deposed

because

For

that

husband,

was

city

he

Dorothea,

considerable

Lili's

attitude

revolution.
estate

und

seems

Strassburg,

from

routed

was

July, 1794,

the

Goethe

interesting theory

there

aristocratic

and
the

of

mayor

and

visited, and

seven

Hermann

thinking.

so

Bemhard

Alpine

also

the

poem,

Lili and

banished

and

office

than

of that

little

advanced

has

she

charm.

womanly

Bielschowsky

half

steadfast

her, impressed

left

and

sweetness

banker,

was

her

the

Frankfort,

whose

course

with

and

deep happiness.

Frederika

playing

daughter.

in

Tiirckheim,

von

with

year

from

Strassburg

young

must

herself, certainly,

For,

departure

rich

meddle

to

driver

she

think

Lili

poet.

the

bade

should

again

such

married

dashed

utterance,

and

conveyance

Goethe's

after

of

of

some

enigmatic

never

affairs

FRIENDS

WOMAN

horses.

whip

love

this

waiting

his

HIS

Ph.D.

"

in

deter-

AND

GOETHE

wonderful

he

youth,

his

As

and

parents,

him

pleased

for

into
of his

some

had

of the

one

had
his

character

her

he

gave

marriage

of the

tion.
revolu-

exquisite

most

of

with

traits

before

looked

himself

whose

own

poet

love

home

at

painful experiences
is

result

The

he

lived

Hermann

she

as

felt during the

and

he

read

to

Lili

wife

the

to

how

this

of

thought

remembered

be, the

to

grown

he

felt, when

and

looked

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Lili had

woman

deeply moved.

was

it

HIS

poems

in all literature.
A

dozen

Goethe
to

letter

thousand
count

of

in

the

ever

adding that
Dorothea

poems

which

read

it without

was

old

been

kiss
those

your

grateful Goethe."

It

age

almost

Goethe
the

note

was

is worth

one

of his

that

he could

being deeply affected.

166

letter

said that Hermann

only

he still enjoyed, and

answer

days which
This

of my

written,
in

Lili and

life."

happiest

in his

of

memory

your

to
"

wrote:

"

had

poem

long silence

hers

times

among

signed

und

his

broke

the

after

years

longer
never

CHAPTER

VIII

CHARLOTTE

VON

STEIN

'

writing

Schiller,
Goethe's

after

knew

arrival

been

"

of

description

"

"

they

the

lady's

gifts

of
the

Goethe's
or

of

purely

as

their

to

of

the

written

phases
assertions

the
in

upon
167

life

tures
ven-

that

anything
all

and
page

history

Stahr

and

themselves
but

Heinrich-

authority,

Goethe

poet's

page

in

Adolph

painstaking

innumerable

who

was

belief,

different

daring

Germany,

expressed

have

then

evil-minded
"

example

noblest

said

is

Stein

von

with

perfectly

"

an

in

he

as

"

soul
is

dead

long

sure,

and

they

as

von

enthusiastic

"

assailed

indefatigable

of

long

That

friendship.

quite

had

"

now.

Frau

the

Charlotte

mind

especially

the

be

of

years

of

connection

woman

Platonic

Keil,

Diintzer,

various

be

some

an

what

say

to

to

than

more,

print

has

most

relation

Robert

And

noble

the

say

opinion,

less,
a

They

likely

one

slanderer

in

concluded

the

for

and

soul

brother-poet

blameless."

and

Komer,

Weimar,

love,

sentence,

pure

friend,

in

"

this

in

his

whom

with

Stein,

his

to

volumes

work,
of

who

on

refutes

obviously

GOETHE

AND

research

careful

and,

but

views

their

shred

of

only

the
"

"

their

"

and

damning

nothing
"

diary,

leaves

of

have

they

support

scarcely
Duntzer

fervent

held

Charlotte

to

interpretations

For

standing.

that

proof

have

expression

poetic
material

in

FRIENDS

wicked

own

thesis

their

WOMAN

they

as

letters

Goethe's

of

HIS

sees

tion
admirabe

to

quite

false

was

her

to

wifely duty.

and

extant

be

may

largely governed

with

possesses

such

and

outgrowth

But,

when

the

other

on

he

desirable

They

Stein
As

one

letters

had

or

Goethe's

the

good
them

his most

sense

one

to

valuable

the

demand

likes to

his

recall

memorial.

168

letters back

Goethe's

own

the

was

found
his

and

was

friends.

woman

when

the

however,

he

to

than

been

sionate
pas-

it either
for

love

correspondence only,
her

For,

more

have

must

before

flee

she

or

determine

to

just because

to

of

of

Goethe,

always

person

else,

one

any

easy

to

very

of Goethe.

period

they

hand,

side

by

wrote

necessary

are

reads
are

character

which

had

the

be

he

fairly

he

will

degree of intimacy

written

be
of

them

are

wiU.

of

expression.

fervid

man,

'

been

them,

kind

life and

it would

relation

of

often

of

things:

two

the

of

to-day by whomsoever

lady, throughout

years,

kind

the

letters

married
ten

by

is, and

reader

had

read

thousand

interpretations

Individual

the

than

letters,^ more

These

for

to

Frau

bum

sajdng that

von

them.
a

man's

CHARLOTTE

much-admired

lady had

intensity.
All

From

of which

is

considerable

regard

Frau

way

of

difficulty
Goethe

to

their

remarkable

know

Goethe

in
of

did

their
to

stimulated

Frau

it

his

her

through

best, that, for

time

at

he

of

dence
resi-

the

cords
re-

quite

revert

Goethe
to

came

immensely

so

and

be

lation
re-

lapsed

and

he

was

of
to

the

Though

when

do

to

rate, he

any

the

came

that

to

me

to

as

relics

opinion.

Stein,

von

into

period

the

natiire

My

least, have

caused

first

Stein.

me

recent

to

has

my

to

at

my

in

interpretation

seemed
then

had

mind

my

much

gone

flee.

not

I have

von

Platonic

close

lives

Charlotte

know

up

of

stage

did

he

making

had

but

change

not

Stein

the

and

now

Weimar,

definitely

certain

friendship; then,

Platonism;

from

von

better,

must,

reached

in

toward

was

STEIN

confessing that

and

before

predilection,
matter,

by

the

VON

was

his
new

creature.

It

society.
verses

"

Weimar

in

arrived

in

early

was

Five

November,
and

months

began

to

he

later

that

mingle
wrote

poet

our

the

with

Jeden Zug

Spahtest,

wie

Konntest

mich

so

schwer

in meinem

die reinste
mit

einem

Nerve

Blicke

ein sterblich
169

its

ing
follow-

Kanntest

Den

1775

Wesen,
klingt,
lesen,

Aug' durchdringt.

AND

GOETHE

"

Tropftest Massigung
Richtetest

Die

does

One

Goethe's

sided

nature.

UnHke

the

stage

of his Weimar

their

suffered

long and

lived

Day,

of

1742,

Saxe- Weimar
father

Eisenach

was

rather

fortunate,
of

as

mother

sensibility. Frau
'

"

Every

impulse

Couldst
So

foretell

into

Love's

'

My

hot

Didst
And

Rest,

my

breast

thou

clear

thou

didst

last, stole

o'er

my

170

in

the
sense

knewest,
nerve,

purpose

gently temper,

thy angelic soft

person,

grewest,

glance Love's

thou

William

thirteen

was

tingling of each
heart

both

erring steps full well control,

through
at

the

passions

with

Schardt

inmost

my

Making

himself,

of my

Christmas

Goethe's

like

Goethe

von

already

household

repellent

endowed

previously

on

stiff and
was

caresses,

troubled

who,

had

ducal

who

"

had

Christian

the

now,

of his many-

Bom

John

of

marshal

Schardt,

von

that

woman

Stein

von

"

need

much.

father

found

Goethe

whom

closely to

meaning:

satisfy every

women

'

this

poet has

our

auf."

too

attractive, Charlotte

found

ruhte

lines

just

at

free, could

were

Blute,

fit these

understand

to

first time,

the

if she

was

to

biography

stay in order

heissen

sich wieder

Brust

need

not

dem

Engelsarmen

zerstorte

FRIENDS

WOMAN

wilden, irren Lauf,

den

in deinen

Und

for

HIS

soul."

serve.

of
own

she
session
pos-

and
years

than

younger

descent,

strength

her

VON

husband

of the

one

"

mother,

her

CHARLOTTE

she

the

many

he

woman

important
fifteen
Duchess

sight
in

Moreover,

appears.

qmte

ways

child

she

with

had

The

fotmd

she

years,
of

herself

found
was

For

be
of

phases

great

to

soon

the

This

Amalia.

Anna

Frederick
the

most

judge

of

men

Stein

as

added
as

the

to

stars

her

an

became

which
due

in

pressiona
im-

most

companion

who

nineteen

at

heir

infant

close

was

playing

likely

intimate

one

first

mere

mind

whom

to

herself

brother, bore

herself

as

very

woman,

with

widow

life

the

was

heir.

then,

even

fact, that, during her

the

to

measure

was

the

to

it at

person;

quality of

attractive

so

at

but

an

unfitting as

mature

fine

of

Charlotte,

an

when

only eighteen

so

preferred gazing

doll.

Goethe

delivered

time

not

was

been

lady-in-waiting

just

this

at

was

in Weimar

place, for

life of the

then

appointment

many

large

the

too-

poet.

had

love

such

the

young

arrival

to

appointed

was

Amalia

the

so

elected

now

Amalia,

Anna

handsome

to

was

owed

withstanding

Goethe's

before

figure in

she

in

British

It

Charlotte

that

of the

years

of North

was

Irvings of Drum,

exhibited

passionate advances
For

and

undoubtedly,

as

STEIN

of

in

kin

to

all

the

of Prussia.

part Anna
but

if she

Amalia

was

picked

out

the

her

young

fitting husband
171

for

very

shrewd

Herr

von

friend,

GOETHE

AND

she

Charlotte,
she

Von

Stein

added

an

court

this

to

as

husband.

her

years

May

on

before

The

8, 1764,
entire

the

among

the

old

Crown

Kaiser

present

her

with

poet.

the

children,
Fritz

How

fact that

of

lived

to

first-bom

AmaHa

and

and

Karl,

nine

year

later

was

to

the

ten

her

day and

three,

whom

may

be

after his death,

placed
was

172

elapsed

acquaintance

time, she bore

only,

The

up.

grow

which

first

Karl,

loss of her

in tradition

credited

the

pursiiit of

her

years

by
wife

life,even

her

endorse

needs

of

duties

the

into

came

thought

be

in

For, during that

to

In

son,

the

who

may

failed

have

wedding

little credence

Goethe,

of her

at

mother

"

Weimar

functionaries.

became

six

place,

Court

Charlotte

during

between

he

Weimar.

must

vocation

that

and

of

August,

one

qualifications

palace

Karl

has

bourhood
neigh-

ducal

after Goethe

mother

and

the

took

marriage

as

one

the

Regent

to

critics

man,

talent,

of his

can

Charlotte

grossly

However

in

twenty-one

the

retinue

Prince

business

in

character.

when

castle

some

fifty sponsors

bring Goethe

adverse

owned

at

"

Duchess

were

horse, but

girl was

following March

the

of

when

senior

the

figure of

honestly

one

human

but

impressive

possessed

said all that

be

to

in reading

he

that

FRIENDS

mistakes

master

and
has

WOMAN

herself

make

was

the

became

showed

could

that

HIS

in Weimar

is

seven

Ernst

and

babies

was

the

seen

from

with

being the

AND

GOETHE

early

For

the

all

joy

lady

in

accustomed

to

burg,

about

only

just

the

at

eyes

Duke

Vivid

pictures

mer.

first

he

little

Aunt.

swiftly

away

down.

God

impetus

nothing

and

of my

always

domestic
goes

on

together

when

Yet,
looked

soul

great powerful
the

"

wrote:

goes

the
Dear

my

life;
and

still destined, that

am

This
be

my

can

well.

it is

is very

Wieland
am

only

up

gives

it is too

desirably;

174

about

careering

economy,

Fahl-

and

school.

and

ences
experi-

Johanna

to

sleigh-ride

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here, naturally.

keep

for what
such

and

Werther, whom

Stein, he

tinkling

knows

place

arrival, and

his
von

like

and

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show

after

How

had

Court,

her

her

in his letters

Frau

met

through

pass

but

found

she

early Weimar

Goethe's

of

Koch-

honour.

to

fortnight

time

new

be

to

are

of

was

performed.

was

author

determined

was

and

to

lost

she

castle at

good health,

handsome

had

year

gloomy

clearly if pathetically through

out

each

reluctantly

in

not

was

slight.

was

Weimar,

that

from

her, at

to

ill and

husband's

introduction

she

though

of

from

rather

momentous

himself

months

miles

returned

herself

dragged
this

fifteen

him, when,

on

presented

was

Duke

in her

pass

make

drooping and

was

Many

life.

did

he

1775,

function, by the
poor

FRIENDS

WOMAN

actually

in November

Court

she

impression

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HIS

say

confused,
wonderful

amiable;
too

life

fond

we

of

CHARLOTTE

being

aU

open

back.

in

Greet

am

am

fate

father

has

teU

be

would

and

do

correct

in

the

in what

for

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is my
will

however

me

thing
some-

Give

one.

am

just

in

this

must

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gold

digest

it.

and

tant
impor-

of
to

of it.

write

dear
the

mail
on

father's.

Merck

coach

and

be

nothing

sometimes,

me

am

among

I must

write

can

way

shoulders

your
for

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I

to

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convenient

most

Aunt,

off

say,

whether

part

in the

show.

money,

dazzling splendour

way;

175

ought

world.

want

correct

weU

in the

want

mother

fi. or

me.

and

secret

of the

200

"

her:

enjoy

most

this, dear
most

influence, enjoy myself,

so

sense

it in

Take

it in

detail.

please,

it to

to

request

Adieu.

position

with

over

mother

send

things.

other

it

one

therefore, I address

may

now

give me'

to

you

air,

on

send

to

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writes

mother,

But

sufficient
to

he

happy

answer,

him

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all the

over

lives

consider

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my

have

so

son

with

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(1776)

to

hovering

of his

ask

is needful.

and

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nobody

envelopes.

what

read.

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matters,

for

of

to

you.

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of

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STEIN

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it.

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In

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your

from

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us,

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write

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myself here

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me.

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this

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with

box

first

for

as

that

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the

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letter in which,

FRIENDS

WOMAN

just received

the middle

friend
his

AND

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complete
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"

long

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me

life at

home,

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the

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and

regard
Wieland

supping

girls here

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to

as

there
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lead

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when

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am

and

176

learning

in the

while

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Duke

thoroughly

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develops

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at

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not

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at

at

the

desire,

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utmost

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occupation

an

amusement,
and

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as

were

better

case

least

present I have

country,

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at

well

as

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fate.

where, with

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nothing.

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and

pleases me

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iQve for work,

with

play

years,

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them.

might

as

annexed.

be

Lotiise

and

syllables; she

the

Duke's

carry

imagine
heads

said,

and

mother

how

at

good

many

cocks-combs,
as

he

outfit

and

ducats, he is
he

April

"

writes

handkerchiefs,
cuffs."

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inquiry

on

"

Lili, she is

people
poor

he

in

my

creature

such

white,

fine

as

of the

him

given

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sister

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"

bom

of

good
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linen

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past.

was

of

the

hundred

one

fine Dutch

part,

heart

she

give

with

evidently
"

deepest
that

about

correspondent

all sorts

large, and

Xante's

had

him
to

dozen

adds,

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explains that, though

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"

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f or

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father

again presented

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and

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me

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together, get

sympathetic

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marriage.

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fellows

hold

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we

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that

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that

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them.

get

can

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rose

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together only in glances

feathers,

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von

attached

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young

here;

ladies'

long

some

jokes and

of

distance.

is Frau

have

splendidly, dramatize
Court

soul

ever

assembled

are

STEIN

I live

is and

all sorts

on

noble

VON

such

an

of
her
the
a

AND

GOETHE

Lili

indeed

was

giving presents

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thing of

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to

irresistible,for
linen.

lady

had

she

been

and

was,

writing

table, he

6 Debr.

'75

SmaU
had

inmost

about

which

cheerftdly
divorce

possible

has

had

to

marry

sold

which

its

bearing,

occasionally happened
v^^ich
themselves
worth
Carl
as

and

groom

this

upon

as

girlVon

Charlotte
Its

von

ImhofI

Hastings!
made

been

had

period,

face.

to

him

misgivings.

what

of

example

an

and

Major

Warren

sale

thing
some-

with

to

at

were

him

many

to

could

they

over

this

that

at

Goethe

called

Charlotte

talked

so

den

pilgrim has

showed

his first wife

by

simple

as

qtiiet domestic

Louise

she

It

Goethe

when

now

sister

too, for

wonder,

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her

this

of the

the

than

and

fine

her

"

many

cotmtry-place

she

and

know

to

line,

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see.

self
him-

towards

surface

which

now

admiration.

came

the

nature

of

marriage

Imhoff,

inner

likely

very

of her

that

the

Goethe

nearer

and

Court,

first

to

retired

much

come

far

cuffs

attitude

he

in characters

this

of

Hfe

on

with

is

maMng

while

warmest

inscribed

journeyed

since

his
the

that

there,

"

sake,

he

For

past.

Stein

her

of

one

FRIENDS

the

von

months

Kochburg

at

was

four

For

WOMAN

the

on

soon

plexities
per-

found

fore,
story is, there-

telling here.

Christian
of the

acquitted

Adam
chamber

himself

Imhoff

von

the

at
so

well
178

began

Court
in

the

of

his

career

Wurtemberg
Seven

Years'

GOETHE

And

Calcutta.

of India

of

the

wife, solemnized

charming
upon

had

How

of the

her

their

it is

letters

ardent

during
poet

young

still

becoming

in

wife

of
the

entered

Von

for

money

she

Imhoff

girl of

sweet

related

which

he

Goethe

to

have

their

for

and

those

first

she

gave

friendship
and

strengthening

correspondence

rooms

means

no

that

quite probable

soon

begin.

to

was

exhibit

months

was

the

being diligently disciplined by

virtuously
a

the

for which

and

"

of course,

confidence

extraordinary

had

quiet, high-studded

we,

deepening

by

in the

castle

but

full

day

every

woman

Kochberg

wife

he

corporal

marry

the

had

Whereupon

all this Charlotte

together

sat

knowing,

him

His

of

to

of

means

plebeian

his
much

they

land

be

not

artist's cast-oflf

regal grandevir
unfitted

be

requirements

German

not

native

lineage by
sold

of

his

to

be

to

the

state.

of almost

herself

retximed
noble

of

the

to

to

and

daughter

career

showed

as

chvirch

English

the

and

them;

according

had

his
to

might
she

to

about

in this situation

him

united

be

Marianne

adopted

rites that

Madras

may

children

two

himself

Inahoff, he

marriage

That

appointed

was

from

truth

himself

man.

from

separated

moved
the

showed

FRIENDS

Hastings

as

had

whatever

he

good deal

WOMAN

just

and

governor-general

rule

HIS

Germany

from

India

AND

to

of

the

have
180

opinion

that

passionate

it is not

lover.

Yet,

CHARLOTTE

early

as

hope, fulfilment
golden

as

heart

as

dry!

the

as

often

which

Best

of

These

letter

I had

no

her

Six

months

forsaken
like

it

reproaches
for

agony
was

an

Geschwister.

from

ready

This

dear

it is

for

as

die but

to

to

I feel

me;

well

as

you

one

and

"

as

(the only

again growing

heart

ago

either, who

am

longer."

Small
had

preparing

am

is

alienated

so

My

you.

Die

in

in

even

almost

Stein

von

world

The

become

through

myself.
so

"

reads:

"

that

Frau

survives) preserved

which

runs

generally regarded

is

from

not

life has

read

words

of

this

to

never

thee

holy spiritof

the

what

letter

which

in

not

women,

the

but

eyes

out,

goes

shining

sun

spring

never

closing

from

authentic

all

that

these

to

Oh, it is the

fire

quotation

alone

from

sight full

the
.

four

Naumburg

friend,

prophecy

than

returning

Beyond

Dear

not

ever,

fanciest

thee."

me

and

well.

eternity.

me!

meet

to

arose

"

less

after

Goethe,

her:

to

STEIN

1776,

25,

acquaintance,

wrote

journey,
sun

March

as

of

months

VON

wonder

suffered

from

her

weU

as

frequent

much

the

upon

her.

He

house

and

they

in

her

Hfe,

lived
met

to

the

constantly
Thus

his

commonplace

181

in

renewed
Goethe

which
within

who

woman,

felt herself

adoration

home.

own

allusions

tired, faded

this

from

being by

inmost

lavished

that

short
at

now

walk

Court

notes

as

have

happenings

of

GOETHE

AND

everyday

life in

Tones)

the

For

different

the

from

there

would

dispatched

side

be

happy

are

when,

as

the

des

quite

ones,

epistleswhich

poem,

off

curse

misunderstood.

make

sometimes, instead

her

to

the

(die Vertraulichkeit

letters

gloomy

come

take

might

as

And

of Werther.

bulk

he

the

most

FRIENDS

to

of tone

such

became

WOMAN

Weimar

intimacy

their

when

HIS

up

of

letter,

February

on

"

following, written

the

12,

the

on

Ettersberg."

of the

WANDERER'S
"

NIGHT

who

dost

Every

pain

Thou

Him

With

in Heaven
and

bide.

stillest,

sorrow

twofold

whom

SONG

twofold

betide

woes

solace

fiUest,

Oh, this tossing,let it cease!

What

all this

means

Soothing
oh

Come,

Charlotte

mother,

who

leave

with

your

heart

Well

might

mother

see

Cf

be

my

Charlotte

von

peace

of his

Stein

und

Translation

by George

H.

poem

of
unto

'

her

to

pious

it: "Peace
Let

you.

let it be

beloved

his

not

to

I
not

afraid."
let her

letters !

Corona

4.
*

give

neither

p.

breast."

back

the

on

warn

my

lovely

troubled,

Goethe
any

into

this

wrote

you,

peace

come

showed

pain, unrest?

Calvert.

182

Schroter

by Heinrich

Dflntzer,

CHARLOTTE

That

wise

old

VON

lady did

love-letters, however,
in

was

need

dangerous

be

to

stand
with

she

she

"

him

"

I have

that

have

whom

you

are

was

he

whom

and

we

daughter'
\inder-

to

write

and

act

fuU

to

her
man,

are

not

sister

my

the

to

however,

to

permit

to

be

surprised

shall not

you.

May,
Your

to

find

for he
presence
183

"

writes:

only^
my
who

Goethe

with

woman
"

sister

that

can

by

brother

me.
.

long

the

are

as

kiss thy

."

are

first of

is such

had

to

who

women

You

you

of

say

being tortured

without

what

I must

"

thee. Angel

thy feet and

later,

and

fortnight with

affection

little

that

past by the
see

among

I lie at

in love

was

one

arise

to

to

much.

as

quietly and
was

so

...

love

can

for

of thanks

owe

her

little while.

"How

have

to

regard

to

of

end

the

appears

effect,for

happy

first time

then

she

writes:

the only

Oh

the

not

he

...

be

its

love, whose

me

And

that

should

daughter

toward

learn

must

had

happy.

me

passion.

he

how

to

hands."
one

her
the

lover

absence,

This

the

stm,

given

make

her

slept ! How

light heart, and

Heaven,

that

morning

greet the

you

Goethe's

did

Nor

Weimar,

to

short

only.

next

sweetly

make

returned

plainly

sister

The

read

categorically in order

must

after

February,

that

know

to

to

restraint.

more

When

told

need

not

situation.

rebuked

that

STEIN

this
"

to

him,

phase

is

To-day

yesterday made

so

GOETHE

wonderful

AND

well

am

on

Thou

wrote:

is to

to

say

seem

to

the

back

Ob's

I know

it."

ob

Will

mein

I will

appearances

have

seized

not

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as

evening

Gewissen

mir

merely

fond

him

once

of

the

Goethe.

To
this

that

he

which

he

for

her

replies in

relation, the purest,

I

have

borne

ever

sister,this, too, disturbed

you,

yoiir

absent
'

love

is of

as

which

von

Stein

take

may

let herself

to

she

sake, for that

the

beautiful,

to

any

If I

am

help

to

Corona

184

am

of the

Even

sincere,

except
not

me

the

rich, and

Schroter, p. 84

my

live with

to
as

of

world.
"

most

woman

so

tells

tone

passionate outbturst:
most

as

grow

firmly

moderate

must

little

und

On

Charlotte's

we

not

friends,in which

Charlotte

time.

is not

verse

Accordingly

again that

his letters, if not

this

je ktnnt anklagen."

mich's

expressing Tier determmation

too

of herself

sagen;

quotation

"

liebe Siinde

so

Wenn

that

night!

distrust

writes

fore.
there-

empfinde,

nicht

du !

Good

about

thou

as

To-morrow,

keen

die mir

muss

saint, that

Holy

thee.

see

and

ich

ist,was

thinks

but

not

Charlotte

'es Himmel

Duntzer

saint.

me

thy heart.

of his letters she

one

ich bussen

Vernicht

make

to

from

thee

of

Unrecht

Und

own

make

of

right

me

Well,

Dread

"

that

me

ill from

or

art

remove

art, I cannot

my

FRIENDS

"

he

"

WOMAN

impression

an

yet whether

HIS

et

love

of

all this

seq.

CHARLOTTE

for

the

can

be

sake

Goethe,
that
in

even

wife

in

he

often
many

he

writes

is

in

"

to

hand

that

trouble,
other.

them

are

Schiller
who

Frau

"

shone
her

word

of

Be

to

not

to

should,

women

of
had

the
a

women:

liaison."

185

his sister who

her

and

letter:

love

in the
known

I cannot
no

the

on

came,

"

Weimar

and

days later

Two

send

Become

what

another

one

I have

loneliness, a beam

there
!

comfort

Duke;

heart,

of my

her,

upon
thee

just

one

friendship together,"

in her

That,

the

to

the

with

about
she

in close

were

the

for

stem

written

blessings."

of

duty

too

of

becalming

that

name,

Stein, whom

von

Countess

the

to

from

has

perfectly
good

not

I dined

up

love, presses

time, the

time

"

purest

thee

wrote

of

letters

the

for the

the

you

true

himself

1776.]

was

by

runs

to

thank

exclaims.
from

shuts

voice

this

lover

about

I went

again

light

you

not

intervals, knew

at

trouble, begging

then

"

24,

proved

of these

of

Oh, that

iiuho

is

Stolberg

dinner

[May

of

matter

One

the

lucid

what

who

hear

where,

This

quoted.

for

his

thou

know

one

itself

willing that

jeopardizing Charlotte's

was

the

Countess

after

in

Weimar,

comfort.^

so

it Ues."

even

You

of

not

world, which

The

me!

to

does

STEIN

is not

me,

hand

and

where

Yet
well

to

The

in solitude

heavy

world.

anything

doing.

are

the

nothing

be

shalt

of

VON

be.

other

is

not

of

each

Those
We

men.

There

of

hour
to

he

are

one

of

GOETHE

AND

HIS

worthy of it. [The

not

FRIENDS

WOMAN

italics

mine.]

are

Good

night,

half past ten."

for

Frau

I have

enjoy

in the

days,

he

lived

had

whose

site

his

that

assurance

Goethe

home,

staying, the
for

taste

tuch

notice

and,

after

evicted

just the kind

winter

was

and

1782, the

built

his

"

But

this

unattractive

and,

his permanent

be

other

be

for

excuses

of land

like

If

his

only he

Bertuch's

gold

he needed

Goethe

of the

for

made
^

Now

would

called

to

now!

the

186

of

by giving

make

years,

Ber-

Goethe

wotinds

sotil

place that

seven

him

he

the

poet's

the

by

coveted

was

not

where

indulged.

place

with

summer,

to

called,

so

town-hall.

should

of home

'

began

earnestly pressing for

garden

delighted

Frauenplan

first

Diike, characteristically,
gave

that

Dtike

lines

tranquillizing of

and

was

little

two

egoist.

he

quiet plot

love

really loved

Jagerhaus,

the

could

soothing

one,

fond

of

nice

the

Whereupon

little

fall,among

want

own

During his early Weimar

Weimar

let

which

Duke

gardening

have

might

the

the

he

an

the

in

cramped

him

when

day,

later

to

be

to

1776.

in the

was

place seemed
one

of

last

because

case,

garden

spring

these

wrote

Goethe,

to

the

spirit,was

his

So

In her

doubt.

great help

Of

he

as

of his

thinking

was

occasionally forgot

her, he

on

Stein

von

no

he

That

him
he

him

content.

lived

and

the

there

when,

present of the house

not

Goethe

sell the
Platz.

Gartenhaus

in
on

CHARLOTTE

continued

but
took

make

to

possession

towards

the

of

end

Wieland,

of

Charlotte
It had

the

in,

slept

out

M^y

3i

were

and

of
"

doors.

on

dry

in

12, 2, and

well

Duke

as

Philip

factotum
encounter

"

slept amid
that

each

On

bed

the
I

was

he

19th
send

you

slept

coat, awoke

three

times,

new

dour
splen-

night

blue

and

thunder,

my

breakfast.

Last

in my

he

time

sleep

in the

enjoyably

as

mentioned
of

this modest

many

out

there

of

nearby

morning

the

when

as

and

How

cake;

on

was

the

on

heavens."

only did
the

the

poet

coat, I laid myself

gloriously

return.

4, and

in the

Not

so

for

wrapped

terrace,

blue

terrace

the

writing

him

me

disagreeable."

Thanks

something

with

rain

quite
"

writes,

in my

up

Goethe

is asparagus.

Philip baked

of the

lightning and

here

holds.
house-

place when

find

we

as

somewhat

building period

morning,

comer

afterwards

the

both

remodel

the

on

he

well

as

of

spot

soon,

Duchess

to

He

secluded

children

the

Hence

thereupon, wrapped

retreat.

there, very

and

was

yesterday?

you

and

necessary

during

Good

favourite

Duke

and

been

STEIN

charmingly

April

tiny cottage which

moved

"

it

this

entertaining the

was

at

VON

sun

during
in

the

doors;

he also bathed

Ilm, by moonlight,
was

summer

letters

shining,

in December

months.

The

was

little household

references
187

to

as

his varied

and

the

chief

we

shall

services

as

AND

GOETHE

we

occasion

one

bed;

to

I read

that

sleep again.

How

awake

"

read:

we

I went

after

WOMAN

FRIENDS

story of Goethe's

the

pursue

HIS

Last

life in Weimar.

night

Philip brings

Lili is

married,

On

I fell

asleep

me

letter; half

turn

soon

and

over

me!

with

worship

Everything

the

at

that

fate

to

go

it deals

right time, dear

so

angel,

good night."
This

of

note

in

one

second

the

the

and

absence
the

between

bond

tried

more

explain

to

this

able

never

the

only by
that

me,"

of

no

have
for

name

chiefly the expression

of his

garden

vegetable.
goes

to

he

sends

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tell stories

he

all the

her

she

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cination
fas-

he

was

"

of

"

and

man

It

over

Yes,

wife.

or

to
to

choice

dine
her

we

Now,

kindnesses

is

souls

are

affection.

himself

evening
188

poet

exercises

Wieland.

flowers

invites

but

satisfaction.

power

us."

ing
becom-

the

transmigration

been

the

extraordinary

of their mutual

in the

is

him,

own

his friend

must

while

for

the

for the

wrote

once

find

can

this to his

theory

formerly, we

were

do

But

the

had

woman

their

displaced

Sometimes

himself

to

by

Sie is seldom

Charlotte

sure.

account

can

he

to

and

Goethe

and

more

du.

whole

Weimar.

in

conspicuous

now

conventional

intimate

more

residence

are

alent
prev-

the

throughout

Goethe's

outbursts

Ufe is the

with

content

letters

of

year

Passionate

by

quiet

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early

with

children

her,
or

CHARLOTTE

them

svimmons

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his

to

relationshipnow

at least
two

the

on

that

surface.

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affecting.
Yet

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that

quite

state

who

from

this

much

the
been

you,

or

that

of

oneself

the

children

Charlotte

really

of

woman

wearies

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genuinely

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not

failing sympathy

and

"

listens

always
189

"

he

why

not

was

Frau

von

knows

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two.

Amalia

to

"

warm

she

him

soothes

marked.
re-

they
too

was

affectation

resent

like

impatiently

friends, these

to

reaUy

mirrors

she

what

once

Anna

I had
I

to

as

guess

of

Amalia

find

you,

evidently

talk

of

we

which

intelligence.

her

she

just because

is

in his

And

women.

clever

He

great

has

delights me

satisfactory. For

Anna
were

leaving

on

presence

say,

with

me

about,"

also

so

Stein

von

looking-glass

distinctly."

and

period

others, whether

your

up

self-satisfied minister

among

clear

vety

found

nothing

Werther

Charlotte

whether

so

as

the

Yesterday,

love

of

of

ago,

gladsome

once

given me."

the

years

morning

years

has

in

is beloved
"

two

at

me,

the

fate

Goethe

lost

letter:

to

those

over

look

one

in Weimar

been

live

Weimar,

in

strange

thoughts,

were

with

exceedingly placid
has

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in

up

wondrous

Stein

"

her

take

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here,

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fireworks.

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see

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to

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to

STEIN

to

...

to-day is most

not

home

seems

he writes

years

again!

to

VON

of cleverness.

with

and

never-

rests

him

GOETHE

1780,
that

with

love

the

after

Frau

other

she

all the

and

this

In

of Goethe's

period
earlier

no

womanly

worth

youthful

the

the

one

ptirity of
the
of

the

of

her

friend,

heals

and,

through

poet,

controls

elements

for

Goethe's

life

pronounces

which

and
both

plays

just past.

the

Charlotte

this

yet

"

are

impetuous

at

directs
the

good

to

sick

the

spirit

of

soul,

suffering, who,

wisdom,
subdue

found

in

brought

susceptible poet,"
190

so

In
in

secure

loves

him.
the

Iphigenia, which

last

say

dramas.

poetic glorification
had

glorified

conflicting duties;

tender

cannot

Tasso.

might

purified by

woman

been

one

and

clearness

and

men

sister

beloved

two

and

contending
a

these

One

has

he

one

trains

self-renunciation, and

with

of

who

nature,

his

gentle priestess,

sober

other,

in

as

life.

of nature."

has

work

ethereal,

so

devotion,

brother,

reconciles
in

with

advances
her

later

or

bonds

Iphigenia

in

beautiful

there

feeling for

find

we

poet

mother,

; and

like the

Lavater,

my

my

loved

August,

as

of

seasons

inherited

bond

travail

charm

Stein

von

I have
us

flower

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the

has

women

between

woven

at

which

his
"

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letter to

dear

more

by.

pass

and

state

and

more

years

greatly lightened by

are

FRIENDS

declaring, in

of

burdens

his

the

so

Goethe

find

we

constantly

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poet.

our

WOMAN

HIS

becomes

Charlotte
to

AND

of
into

years

the

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of

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the
the

Goethe

calm
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of

society which
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had

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than
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drama
the

her

lover

"

her

observe,"
how

love

this

of

play

just

warm

the

now,

it
Frau

your
192

1786

principal

to

than

poet?

von

Weimar
wont

were

listening to

be

she

him.

at
fessing
con-

was

had
"

of the

written

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von

25,

are,

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interest

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for

do

everything

life at

like

began

affection

for

scene

Duchess), and

the

was

his letter of March

provides

first

Alphonso,

with

openly

more

was

three

1776 and

fact that

when

done

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what

indeed, Goethe,

familiar

us,

time
to

not

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lies in the
very

of

cannot

write

princess, and

between

reading

the

Goethe

experience."

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conversation.

"

and

slight admixture

August.

say

was

by the poet,

perfectly

knew

himself

during the period

to

acter
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he

first

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wife,

photographically
(with

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of
as

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hardly read

his

to

characters, Tasso, the

almost

balance

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was

play,

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his

Goethe

become.

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otherwise

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at

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indeed

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in

play

it, "It

of

flesh."

precisely

as

"

the

of

said

wants,

writing

was

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PRIENDS

Weimar,

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Goethe

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WOMAN

speaking

Eckermann,

years

is in

In

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Do

tofore
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1781, enquires,
Some

months

CHARLOTTE

ago

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but

how

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everything
to

"

day:

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written

is

could

this time

not

at

essential

the

princess should
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yet.

von

Stein

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were

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and

finish

the

plot

not

years

its

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second

morning
I

have

thee;

connection
in

now

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scenes

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was

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one

Tasso

and

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to

love

that

the

been

later

was

asunder

torn

have

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play;

astmder,

of

in the

Goethe

thing
any-

nor

this

in

perfect

torn

days

write

of the

features

myself

invocation

because

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following

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happy

an

scene

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mood

as

yourself

to

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Tasso.

to

particular."

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Tasso

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neither

soliloquy

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already written

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me

exactly the

of

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as

thee in

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know

upon

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may

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heart.

my

I have

that

awakened

it is good

whether

you

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to

impossible for

quiet
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says

following:

rain

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writing

reference

the

in

act

"

to-day

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plain

the

panegyric

directly worshipping
a

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tell thee

I shall

morning.

is

"

improve

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flow from

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you

it

to

STEIN

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now

he wrote,

19

much

will

writes,

pronounced
April

so

would

scene

easily it

later

days
have

next

VON

and

the

Goethe
for

and

five

remained

years

two-act

fragment.
Whether

surrendered

one

accepts

who

declare

utterly

to

the

opinion

of

in

781,

that,

Goethe
193

because

those

she

mentators
com-

Charlotte
,

feared

to

GOETHE

him

lose

Corona

to

that

view

letters, that

and

good

for
heart

unmistakable

Life

he

which

gives

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been

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used

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trouble

to

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to

and
view

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to

Germany
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divorce

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Imhofis, and

have

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has

taken

not

in

bius.
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found

that

remarkable

study

characteristics,is just what

say,

that
erotic

true

that

Goethe

from

her

husband

married.
was

period,
the

evidence

this dictum

and

in this very

to

unions

letters to

clear

are

terpret
in-

Goethe

original passage

they

so

and

be

other
of

the

up

says,

be

"

be

tion
Prolonga-

Goethe's

of

erotic

poet's

Moebius'

1781,

unmistakably

also to

she

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back

is to

in his

to

later writers

trying

are

"

dates

literallythe

language

reference

were

by

traits

been

get

the

Metchnikoff

thus:

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of Goethe's

seems

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the

period

of

relations

their

I have

passionate fervour

Stein, about

von

that

what

now

say.

has

Goethe's

is

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on

whichever

"

du

of

cludes
con-

in their relations

familiar

eroticism
I cannot

of

Platonic

itself tmrebuked.

expresses

one

acknowledged

now

change,
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the

whether

or

perfectly plain, from

it is

period.

this

from

Schroter,

notable

FRIENDS

continued

still

adopts

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WOMAN

love, though

their

sides,

both

HIS

AND

as

letters of

not
was

this

character."

in

wished

with

that

in
in

between

the

he

direct

uncommon

seen

It

Charlotte

order

in

Divorce

marriage
194

the

case

Stein

the
of
and

CHARLOTTE

Charlotte

could

is said

matter

constantly
him

if this
"

be

the

to

seen.

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when

arm,

their

given him]

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moderation
March
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sotd

in

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us

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refer
now,

woof

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surely and

that

he

that

place

to

the
that

divorce

that

is to

say,

depths

but

consists

trouble

and

are

of love

misery."
195

"

We

and

of his

which

he

had

may

be

held

are

bound

truly
a

band

joy and

the

by

Yet

that

"

at the foot
to

can

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some

(eternallythine!

of mines

his

words

no

passionately,

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we

that

inseparable

nor

were

night."

at

feels himself

am

heights

rumour:

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day,
Mon-

on

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July 8, he adds,

on

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of which

crosses,

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thy goodness, wis-

of

exclaims

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know

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letter

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lacteries
phy-

around

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hers

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me

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of

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bind

pray,

band

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express

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now.

he

into

grown

sacrament,"

or

to

letter

her.

you

part

this

"

at

mean

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patience," he writes

178 1,

to

to

from

and

time

I bind

do

partake

12,

so

which

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thy dear

I pray,

reverted

life would

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so

arms;

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opposition of
mind

his for aU

were

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the

to

easily

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of what

thought

woman

ever

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that

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annulled

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have

to

lady's family.

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to

legal steps

no

STEIN

have

probably

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enough.

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mar-

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web
note

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GOETHE

with

concludes

HIS

the

message,

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which

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minutes'

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to

the

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house.

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the

garden

gate

overlook,

to

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it

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with

find

maim

(in 1827)

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and

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in

to-day
lovers

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even

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little

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no

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night by

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house

town

to-day chiefly associated

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that

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into the

moved

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increased

Charlotte

and

(spring of 1782)

now

Stein."

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greatly favoured

Goethe

between

FRIENDS

WOMAN

"

which

circtimstance

it

AND

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long

residence

my

jotimey
detained

being

had

and

late

at

my

beloved.

already
pay

my

not

Besides,

mutual

our

attention

attracted
visits

been

affairs,I had

by

day

lest
196

and
I

able

to

affection
was

should

reluctant
increase

visit
had
to

the

CHARLOTTE

talk.

common

I could

and

her

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and

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were

time

about

for

full of

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myself,

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not
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house

dark

and

times

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to

where
many

form

invariably found

approach,

she

deceived
her

saw

once

I said

through

often

was

last

that

night and

went

fancied

more

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out,'

gone

and

once

remarked

I afterwards

at

directions

beloved.

and

this

people,

near

then

her
time
the

in

firmly believed
that
also

beings
direct

the

have

again

asmuch
inand

that

it

she.

and
desire.

must

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on

down

in aU

of my

house

different

impassioned

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passed

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as

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her

the

point

streets, which

an

the

to

thought
the

on

point of returning home,

past

I meet

shall

the

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about

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by

ever,
how-

the road

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I went

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unlighted.

evening,

was

I heard

quickly

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light.

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was

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alone.

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was

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an

on

house,

passionate thoughts

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angry

the

room,

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softly upstairs and

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voices

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longer and

no

before

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VON

of

steps
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small

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attract

myself

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to

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197

to

surrounded

higher order, whom

mutual

strong

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Schiller

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AND

GOETHE

it occvirred

lived, when

then

already

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feel

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often

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form

speak

to

you?
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'

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her

other

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and

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hopes have

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of

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recognized

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doubt.

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course

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me

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resemblance,

to

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steps in this

her

in

the

to

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window,

apparent

still and

voice.

female

toward

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hundred

from

back

turn

taken
a

close to each

I stood

down

shone

an

courage

passed

saw

FRIENDS

to

me

faintly lighted by

was

and

now

to

perfectly resembled

which

street

when

direction

WOMAN

go

scarcely

right. I had

me

then

palace and

the

HIS

same.

beloved
deceived

not

"

my

feelings told
I

now

she,

'

has

proved

why

did

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have

wept
had

seized
accotmt
two

the

such
female

friends

interminable.

involuntarily

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seized

and

an

with

me

last, when
my

hat
198

to-day

three

days

because

an

hour

they
and

on

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were

and

ago,

visit

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by
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imeasiness

describe.

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back

you;

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my

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me.

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afternoon

longing
as

But

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whole

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'

not

have

you

certainly find

God

I thank

true.'

you

greatest eagerness;

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and

happy

the

with

you

me

am

chance

you

sought

I have

me;

was

your
were

appeared
I

gone,

cloak, and

was

GOETHE

"

HIS

kind," his gratitude

faith

their

now

years

in

each

and

he

gelebt."
in

this

Frau

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with

theatre.

with

you

herewith

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the

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her

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evening

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April 7

of Eisenach:

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aimer

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see

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me

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edited

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day

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only

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and

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Charlotte's

he

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on

day (Sunday)

from

he knew

as

of playfulness,

next

be

ever

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he

dash

pour

one

lovely

untroubled

1749

note:

dear

my

solicitude, for

"

of

name

grande

tme

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charming
that

hope

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deepened

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stands

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von

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was

FRIENDS

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December

as

WOMAN

was

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"

AND

by

iU and

Robert

KeU.

CHAELOTTE

thy letter gives

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ever

that

thou

that

and

tend

her

health

knowest

thee."

I wept

bitterly as

win

the

me

many

dearest?

others, I should

being

to

been

have

could

the

see

and,

at

feels

Lotte,

the

to

in

receive

What

though

once

himself

in

my

abroad, for

do

be

happiness
the

I
not

thee

upon

Thy

about
last

in the

might

bound

so

note

night

lose

thee.

to

me

calmness,

conduct

he

is

teUs
"

home

me

improves

health

201

me

owe

and

how
to
my

equanimity

in

thee,

to

me

along with
whole

my

never

sins.

How

myself

so

nothing

to

somewhat

again writing
her

or

Again,

distinguish

dearest

left to

were

the

owe

well

art

thee, I should

debt.
at

not

dedicate

to

clearly or

he

note."

with

my

year,

thou

so

bore

only

morp

her

Would

happen

this

didst

her

of the

end

I think

Now

in it if there

But

art

myself, against this,nothing.

renounce

world

"

there?

that

For, without

able

successfully
seek

stiU

thee.

"

writes:

might

thy love, if thou

with

wait

else

"

thou

is really alarmed

9, he

if thou

Even

might

that

you

letter:

same

he

live.

when

well

be

which

thee?

imagined

to

from

swerve

thoughts;

counterweight
us

that

me

sorrowful

everything

helps

Hope

never

April

for, on

Hope,

It is true, dearest, is it not,

Soon

in

teUs

us,

STEIN

certainty.

by thy side that

were

Against

sad

again.

caused

have

the

me

deceives

better

already

VON

fully
cheer-

much

he

thee, dear

enjoyment
with

which

GOETHE

and

I receive

Farewell.

my

only
And

to

my

yet it

was

himself

of

and

her. lure

time

long

when

aftfer year,

him

in upon

owed

it to

business
able

that
his

to

he

must

artistic

that

bathe

were

his

southland

ceased

to

'

The

His
date

his

had

Stein

von

the

sure,

full of

but

Rome

life

close, it

was

more.

ponder,

what

one

of these
tenth

sharply

borne

He

felt that

to

drop

weighing

him

down

first allusion
of his arrival

202

heart
in

in Weimar.

he

his

development

his

year

and

1785,

pull away.

which

soon

recurred,

been

health

however,

of his to

in

ness
tender-

and

not,

when,

daily

one's

beckon

and

the

Through

was

habit

end,

an

the

he
the

now

and

spiritin the bright joyous

towards

yearn.

Frau

accomplished
7

him

came

cares

to

had

to

dear

to

less

of

November

in Weimar

year

the

do.

he

one,

are

the

It

days

days with

serious

for

been

dear

helped Goethe

be

they

Italy begins

it had

my

in life.
to

Charlotte

what

on

still to

had

and

1785,

memorable

the

to

irresistible.
loved

with

come

restored

always

But

grows

Goethe

that

to

had

loving thought

happiness.

For

and

thee

"

which

people

and

continue

letters

be

in

interest

from

Adieu,

now,

had

letter

thy love.

of

ground

talisman!

soon,

and

well.

art

1783, 1784

years

for

hope

FRIENDS

the

on

relationship

puzzKng

keen

and

WOMAN

life and

one,

find

her

rests

thou

that

news

this

give

To-day

the

HIS

AND

had

so

life of
never

letters

to

CHARLOTTE

Charlotte,

of

found

note

in

his

and

written

November

the

after

soon

longing

he

preparations for departure.

writes

he

when

is about

Farewell,

away.
have

been

his

journey,
belong

27,

interpreted
than

ever

in

letter

to

that

mean

of

becoming

cave

which,

earthquake,

first time.

To

thee, and
would

be

had
which
than

to

diary,

volume

our

out

The

Let

to

us

have

but
to

ting
Sit-

from

thee,

an

dear

my

for the

now

I knew
the

take

have

meant

for he

Charlotte

of which
Italian

"

day:

by thee, beloved

world!

me

hopes

no

by

that

highest

it

sity
neces-

resolution

the

other

thought

together."

lives
to

seems

in his letters

force

take.

did

Goethe

his

to

on

been

stronger

I feel

am

years

nothing

has

suffered
to

to

her,

wrote

one

ago,

prayer

strange

husband

year

live ten

has

this

reaUy

sentence

now

spoilt I

like this and

pass

my

How

in

now

power

her

I address

guardian angel!

he

through

he

last

get

It may

come

Temi

whose

to

thine."

am

might

From

Stein, he

desire

somehow,

Charlotte

other.

each

to

October

belief, that

make

to

von

"

leave:

to

sweetheart,

and

he

Frau

man
Ger-

language,

secretly

To

Two

rude

Italian

begins

Italy, is

1785.

the

melodious

this

for

lo,

bitterly compares

with

tongue

STEIN

tremendous

he

later

months

VON

was

be

sent

afterwards

Journey, and
203

to

he

very

her

constant

every
made

made

week
up

his

arrange-

GOETHE

which

by

ments

AND

how

she

he

trip. But, by

he

wrote

Carlsbad, did

had

who

man

One

day.

suffered

for ten

gave

expression

thus

translated

"

As

my

friend

Of

the

hours

left

the

not

seemed
of

part
her

to

she

in which

for his

the

every

loneliness, has

Calvert

the

been

biographical

friend,* Charlotte

Charlotte

The

Stein

von

one.

pain,"

Fraulein

von

beginning

of
to

You

the

older

Lengefeld
their

only

the

gone."

last and

at

cheerfully

was

two

to

on

mas
Christ-

her

young

future

the

lover

Charlottes

wife

of

hospitality
204

Frau

he
von

tiful
beau-

very

given

never

urging

when

was

the

wrote

constantly
and

has

who

once

woman

acquaintance,

accept

is

came

these

the

are

me

Memoir.

friendship between
"

he

Lengefeld,

von

flown!

alone.

thus

wrote

hath

oft, so kindly.

aye

mail

own,

my

remind

so

for

now,

were

me

now

ye

for

am

delayed
she

Day

that

from

him

with

Lonely

"

what

writing

pain and

Fly, ye thoughts

Now

himself

had

weeks, and

little poem,

H.

he

after

on

been

years

by G.

Spent

But

of

voltime:

least

of faith

her

to

formed
in-

quickly

early days

horribly from

touching

very

the

for many

her

flagrant breach

most

during

fortnight

reach

she

been

miscarriage, the letter which

some

not

FRIENDS

have

to

fared

Verona,

at

WOMAN

ought

had

his

unnaturally,

HIS

me

And

younger.

Schiller,
"

was

in
Stein

the

at

Weimar

the

by

graciously

CHARLOTTE

"

Schiller:
Goethe

have

to

but

us,

friends
The

intention

Heaven

often

the

will of

to

little

she

recurs

friend

is

later

she

one.

on

Rome

till

dream

about

back

"

on

"

proffered.

locked
that

more

her

Weimar

brated
cele-

the

absent

could

be

not

will

remain

had

in

night

feared

the

had

time

he

singular

misfortune

some

thought

of

well

very

''

admitted,

began
I

to

prize

at home

been
the

she regarded

so

only

serious

very

largely Charlotte

was

in herself.
I

it assumed

took

her," she

Goethe
.

from

her, but

to

of

there;

not

Last

at

in

birthday

the

was

him.

have

You

letter

sister-in-law

separation
bitter

so

the

September

her

to

the

was
"

Easter.

Goethe

that

soon

to

to

misfortune," for

when
But

his

was

coming

us."

to

The

On

Kochburg

day.

to him

happen

to

than

quitted

time.

from

adds:

that

joyful

He

into

time

year,

glad

am

back

come

creeps

from

pleasantly

very

you

otherwise

mortals.

which

reconciled

now

which, last

little

is to

certainly

us

when

uncivilly."

1787, she writes

that

read

let you

determines

of criticism

note

just quoted
I,

I will

from

letters

beautiftil

many

which

His

us.

according

the

had

in Rome

come

to

STEIN

VON

It
love

for
was

her

know

that

her

illnesses

only
as

after

I do.

her."

205

other

knowing

But

now

her
the

few

weeks.

proportions
Stein's

von

it is difiScult
and

it, did happen

to

come

for
better

own

near

make

things

many
I

it

know

to

her
years

her

GOETHE

AND

She

fault.

not

was

back

came

HIS

the

joy he had

mistake

of

being

hast

but

Thou

had

he

Juno,"

she, with

months

It

later,

that

made

in

supplanted
gave

girl of
had

the

him

hoped

choice

which

letter

reproaches

Charlotte

her

whether

the

that

emotions,

When

she

the

her,

true

what

and

he

had

while
in the

At

i,

the
O!

is
'no

May

several
as

more,

"

to

will

having
able
remark-

1789,

to take

he

top of this

!!

of

the

or

and

the

decide

pity, or
fail to
were

follows:

4, for Ems

206

pain,

woman

and

letter is

of

one

she

Goethe

him.

June

"

her

quite unable

sure

started,on

definitely

either

on

she

Then

friend

wrote

seem

expressed, for

be

fifteen

mistress, and

exclamation

these

January,

affections.

for

Stein

indignation.
aU

in

been

feelingpiqued.

von

am

of

Weimar,

bewitched

sent

commentators

men

head

diately
imme-

had

renotmcing

had

he

for

her

cold.

almost

longer

she

of

who

keep

to

the

1789, however, that

poet's

Vulpius for

Christiane

letter

that

the

people

the

in

early

discovery

the

to

no

made
and

to

him

away.

untU

not

was

was

she

Rome,

afterwards

he

help

to

colossal

return

he

went

him,

instinct,knew,

Goethe's

he

trying

from

soon

upon

when

been

her

lover, when

querulous

rival,

one

woman's

her

of

exacting,

ceased

her

to

left behind

written

this

1787; but

FRIENDS

instead

forget all

"

kind

very

her, and

to

WOMAN

the baths.

of
feel

there

GOETHE

Who
.

has

AND

claim

HIS

the

on

Who

R'

^^"^'

"

Ask

Fritz, ask

knows

not

and

if the

best,

:^e,

should

"

in

endure.

me

and

coldness

life,and

with

would
"

in

did

more

irritate

Unhappily,
regard

injurious

to

to

to

I not

to

felt

rather
thou

d,

thrive

coffee, and

my

aise.

mon

if you
I

As
208

How

can

repulse

me

like

thy present mood

adopted

of

way

should

to

it

thee.

long despised

health.

of

me

criticisedrtnyevery

conciliate

than
hast

in

that

though

\/

indifference;

movements,

mal

my

experi-

my

accused

you

You

cannot

shut

you

with

me

manner

you

ill-humour?
fear

the

talk,

with

friends

my

confidence

thy

I have

hitherto

me

of you.

with

pre-determined

add

miracle

theg disposed

that

say;

reproached

always

me

to

of all, that

found

share

for my

fault

and

openness

must

to

neglect

put

by

vividly

I have

inclined

was

active

was

be

relation

treated

I wanted

look, found

f^^

[in Italy] you

when

Whether

interesting subjects!

have

"V\nien I

sympathetic,

before?

How

when

who

one

any

less

it must

ceased.

on

you

lips; when

'((^ences
j^

have

with

which

And

her?

with

am

poor

time, rightly belong

intimate

most

This, however,

((^

the

it is still there

talk

to

first

society?

to

the

give

ask

Herders,

the

I pass

friendly than

for

now,

them

that

the

less

active, or

do

hottrs

intimately, whether

me

less

the

on

FRIENDS

feelings that

creature?

WOMAN

advice

my

regime
it

were

highly
not

i'

CHARLOTTE

already

difficult

VON

enough

thou

impressions,

for

thou

thee

good.

I have

wilt

again

know

Fritz

is

is well

knew

broke

with

more

through

stood
letter

and

Frau

from

feld.

Her
been

had

spite
love
he

him

had

sorrow

of

journey
that

do

thou

Farewell.

am.

The

prince

is Hke

sky,"

my
sorrow

the

she

poet's

ardently.

"

and

Lotte

to

happiness

told

sadly degenerated
for him

wrote

her

but

pity
209

herself
this

for
has

that

Lenge-

von

of which

she

since, in

intense

more

all

were

love

star

faithlessness," she
She

unexpressed,

coffee,"

beautiful

all the

was

"

depression

now-sHghted

the

over

robbed

and

to

just quoted

the

that

"

able

was

quite tmder-

the

in

expressed
due

he

he

he

good deal

When

sign

Charlotte's
he

me

learned

matter,

guessing

before

women

he

but

no

declares

to

To

about

the

on

dimly

here

fallen

experience.

he~gives

attributable
"

the

find

to

up

constantly.

me

Stein

von

reproaches,

he

him.

gave

and

what

deal

good

this

even

the

which

for

visits

what

of

imaginations

entirely lost hope

me

perspective

"

driacal,
hypochon-

injurious effects
and

cure

moral

lively."

and

get

the
not

and

happy

Goethe

to

whose

means

May

better.

thysdf

the

gloomy

acknowledgedst,

time

of

power

physical

certain

overcome

strengthenest

tormenting
through

to

STEIN

continued

to

repeatedly that

only deepened

for herself.

"

am

her

often

GOETHE

SO

overcome

on

May

with
27,

the

"

Aber

halt'

ich hab'
"

Verlust!

But

could
In
"

Schweig,

mehr!

now

several

was

she

little

Even
1

"

one

Ilmenau

Goethe, too;

for it

httle

"

poem,

mines

just

sold

"

no

while

was

Ueber

alien

Be

more.

with

of

that

Gipfeln

ist

he

at

four

hill-topis

every

Throughout
Little
Wait

birds
but

in

the

woods

her

thou

patience, soon

which

210

cease,

shalt

faith
in."

by

all.

the

loss!

"

memories

I have

leafy bough.
thou

at

of

(in 1779) his exquisite

peace,

sleep in each

shares

than

tenderest

wrote

Ruh,"

all noises

Ilmenau,^

lovable

translate:
Over

father
god-

hand

dearer

me

silent,endure

some

there

to

an

part of his

as

her

to

was

stood

has

he

as

longer have

no

friend

formerly had; she

her

which

at

himself

the

seemed

connected

was

has

she

Fritz:

son

friendly

as

Later, when,

departed

I have

now

is

and

adds:

husband

loved

But

that

our

her

he

bitterness.

her

to

she

before

daughter, too,

puns

the loss of

except

writes

poet reopened

price and

anything

year

ertrag den

years

anything

little child."

Fritz

reduced

in

French

the

writes

she

und

in secret

mourned

with

1793,

has

duty,

him.

to

her

lieber als alles.

mir

war

excessively delighted, for

state

to

it

him

speak of

to the

for

wrote:

Charlotte

devotion

Goethe

much

wrote

'

earwig, makes

ich; sie

November,

is

he

she

weep,"

stiffered,too,

very

sie nicht

though

Goethe's

I could

Goethe

meant

FRIENDS

WOMAN

grief that

separation,

Liebe

Eine

HIS

1791.

had

sympathy
after

AND

sleep,now.

ventured

CHARLOTTE

for when

contrast,
she

1793,

All that

mental

restored

his

until

jealousy

by

caricatured
sensual

had

vmder
and

under

Schillers'

to

months.
and

kept

Schiller

Dido,

"

Fritz:

had

appearance

Charlotte,
Goethe's
Schiller's

boy

were

does

to

however,

little

Carl,

"

staying

on

an

at

Goethe

is

the

at

she

much

wrote

several

short

arms,

pockets.

heavenly
[she

him

for

his trousers'

as

selfish,

genius.

was

true

in

changed

me."
loved

August,

son,

of

with

with

come

burden

as

him

of
an

not

of which

though
seem

wife

Once,

seen

for

upon

encoimter

Hke

know

to

Goethe
he

Orgo

into

looked

like

as

her

of

not

thrust

him

if to

of

which

an

...

woman!]

did

horribly stout,

his hands

I should

this

Jena,

at

love

back

lover.

had

roof

was

beside

and

rest

the

in

name

1796, she

He

others,

warm

got

herself

faithless

of

the

But

rid

the

beginning

thus

Goethe

and

writing

poet

and

became

who

Lengefeld,

she

her

through

friendly footing.

about

caused

equilibrium."

Schiller, Charlotte
almost

death.

"

into

again

brought

had

fine

von

in

him

vexed

which

Gradually, however,
Charlotte

beautiful

looked

in his countenance,

malady

gentle death

"

He

unpleasant

was

by the

"

December,

of

end

died, at the

he

wrote:

STEIN

VON

children

occasion
the
211

to

came

Stein

when
home

when

and

play

Lotte

in

and

with
the

Weimar,

AND

GOETHE

while

Schiller

found

herself

"

writes:

He

his
'

the

from
the

to

name."

and,

wanted
house

against
her
to

the

on

his

"

happy,

and

said

in

"

he

father

Soon

after

lover

him

and
this

Jena

at

husband

dially
cor-

give

she

1797

large

also

in

evening

year

my
even

company

Schiller

and

in

of the

proper,

ing
count-

ally,
emphatic-

perceive

good

of the

be

to

your

think
a

thereupon

very

former

Greet

her

him

times

that

was

they

"

together

health

not

wraps.

by

her
so

own

charming

points

that

out

was

biography
social

since

home

prepared
Goethe,

his return

Frau

heated.

by

She

heavy

themselves,
naturally,
acceptance

too-constant

212

course
inter-

in the

tastes

from

Stein

von

(in

greatly complicated

now

strikingly different

comfortably

of

had

had

while

warm

friends

Goethe,

even

rigours
their

written

former

two

very

who

has

Stein, amusingly

these

room

which

guests,

keep

her

of

I gave

nature

if you

who

temperatures.

the

she

mother."

house,

von

fact

the

of

spite

head, he
at

early part

Bode,

between

matter

in

she

"

her.'

of Frau

by

by,

seemed

he

can

long afterwards,

Wilhelm

German)

and

the

with

Dr.

near

child.

him

little

to

Goethe's

not

good

privy-councillor

In

dined

his

of the

me,

at

Fritz

Schiller:

stout

dined

in

message

Lotte

through

To

in which

one

child

distinguished

the

sent

the

made

you.'

commoner

she

be

which

presents

separately

to

to

pauses

I thank

guest

mother.

seems

several

after

his

playthings

some

"

attracted

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Goethe's

was

for

loathing

HIS

Italy, always

could

bear

not

protected

herself

underclothing,
often

were

did
of

not

such

care

but

obliged
to

danger
en-

pitality.
frigid hos-

IX

CHAPTER

AJA

FRAU

It

the

by

is

mother

is

become

by
M.

known

of

time

the

enthusiasm

latter's

the

for

is

name

two

had
fruit

of

the

on

Gibbs'

part

an

article

which

of
This

Goethe

material,

La

at

Mere

de

he

linked

class

the

to

best

and

with

Gibbs'

Frankfort

Goethe,

d'apres
214

and

sa

after

"

1849

and

"

research

later,

years
most

the

America.

German

available

then

of

in

which

time

at

shared

in

twenty-five

the

Harvard

with

impulse

mother

House

'

in

appeared,

together

at

for

have

appreciative

an

and

together

by

Seymour

Arnold

for

indissolubly

ensuing

Goethe's

Alfred

German

things

gave

her

there

graduated

been

of

done

student

was

abroad

were

Thomas

was

FoUen

Charles

the

France

personality

Gibbs

public.

reading

FoUen

sprightly

her

vitalized

of

America

in

has

literature

sketch

William

England

in

and

The

while

She

biography.

the

charming

the

Bastier

Paul

in

figure

Goethe's

that

name

of

readers

to

familiar

reason

Gibbs

picturesque

above

lifelike
in

Correspondance.

trait
por-

English.

description
translations

in

of

the
of

FRAU

number
her

of the

in book

form^

addition

to

the

of

It

the

present

the

time

material

had

Trevelyan

work

been

first

edited

by

Herr

those

French,
there

to

is to

Rather

Albert
whom

know

life and

the

effect

of

German,
tongues

character
of

this

Goethe's

Mother, by Alfred

215

about

English

and

nearly

all

interesting woman.

so

S. Gibbs.

the

letters,

comes

learn

familiarity with
mother

lowering

It

people.

it

now

very

has

himself

following

Rath's

as

Goethe's

of

which

appeared

well

may

Janet

delightful

very

there

Thus
as

that

of the

Frau

his

But

Mother,"

greater

considerably

Goethe

the

Koster.

about

English-speaking
1

time

same

died

Arnold

Goethe's

oddly, however,

the

which

the

familiar

are

printed in English,

shape
it

the

of

remained

has

Quarterly Review

collection

complete

such

from

"

Arnold,

unpublished.

make

on

in the

Just about

year.

to

article

published

what

mother.

in

one

literature.

grandson

last word,

still

left

able

valuable

and

of Goethe's

his

was

the

of

Thomas

contribute

to

to

valuable

knowledge

meagre

Arnold

study

with

that

certainly

was

very

Matthew

1904

in

then

headmaster,

in

was

and

mother

others, appeared

and

fascinating figures in all

of

to

and

by Goethe's

remained, however, for WUliam

great

in

in 1880

our

most

nephew

up

letters written

Lavater, Wieland

to

son,

AJA

the

has

estimation

long been

Dodd,

held

plain

becomes
Mead

had

"

Co.

by
that

AND

GOETHE

his mother

though
he

took

The

her

literature
"

in

which

examination

preconception
well

as

him

and

forgave

of

neglect
loving, sweetest, and
the

be

great pleasure

to

things and

Weimar

that

long
wider

yearned

letter

even

many

As

him.

caused

her

shadow
letters

as

of

which

least

of

one

was

considerate

pardonable
un-

most

rmles

the

during

times
survived

his

Yet
and

she

joy.

reproach

to

she

her

216

sons."

it wotdd

stub-

are

of

and

Goethe

visiting

thirty-three

the

loved

made

August,

sends

of

translation

she
that

excuses

declares, in
her

Only
be

to

him, trusted

constant

1798, indeed,

but

most

apart

purpose

the

though Frankfort

hundred
for

nothing

loved

the

facts

grandson,

her

to

late

of

one

But

him

over

as

for his

'gainsay.

field of usefulness.

him,

has

she

that

years

man

and

which

six

him

one

distance

only

mother

usual

long-suffering of mothers

fact that

less than

are

travelled
his

it is

as

this, and

scathing judgment

bom

for

and

writes,
the

excuses

was

Goethe

selfish,cold-blooded
A

her

most

illustrious

of all the

with

bore

made

and

him

to

on,

Arnold

greatness
who

"

bodily presence!

his

started

she

went

years

William

Goethe's

of

it

knew

examination

writer, is that

while

for

subject,"

the

on

the

unbiassed

he

and

"

as

hunger

of my

FRIENDS

him

trouble,

natural

result

WOMAN

adored

little

very

satisfy
"

HIS

once

own

son

is there

detected

friends

about

in

the

him,

AJA

FRAU

and

that

cry

which
"

from

Son

Wolf

East

and

"

house,

Her

was

To

Frankfort

the

occurred
the

just
by

name

writing

had

Goetz

and

Goethe's

in

that

the

and

Frankfort

men

rebelled

they

; and

freedom

Nature
that

broad

to

the

was

the

she

knew

Now
"

Sturm

the

inveighed

of

Gibbs

all

the
217

more

with
to

young
"

Drang

tyrants."

Of

against

of custom

and

they thirsted

of

"

Nature.

the

If

dryly,

comments

by

bathe

to
to

showed

that

for which
dictates

to

Rath

und
"

for

daylight, they eagerly followed

they

known

these

tyranny

freedom

desirable

owe

author

Frau

nothing;

the

was

follow

the

always

hatred

suggested," Alfred
it

by

of the

with

they

tyranny

convention
was

over

we

became

distance

admirers.

products

true

period, boiling

which

and

Weimar,

hiuiiedly journeyed

received

were

Stolberg, which

opportimity having offered

flesh,they

friends

were

actual

and

be

to

came

Stolberg brothers

The

hospitality which

eager

Goethe's

Counts

come

literary pilgrims.

mother

from

And

me.

North

soon

for

pilgrims.

Werther,

him

see

which

long worshipped

it

left for

Goethe

Duchess

stay away."

shrine

before

see

and

as

visit of the

the

to

to

South

Santa,"

involuntary

almost

come

West,

Casa

succeeding

all

and

is

doesn't

veritable

called,

"

she

as

the

in

figures that might rather

many

to

found

slipsout

Amalia:

yet

be

may

wayside

her

loudly

in

dictates,

against

GOETHE

AND

when

tyrants,

HIS

certain

"

and

table

"

there

blood

for the

violent, back

in

preserved
the

except

solemn

on

the

'

yourselves

in

This

Children

Four

that
the

of

is

scene

it

to

her

life.

Emperor

which

stored

away

had

herself

she

As

broached
she

cut-glass decanter

she

Rejoice

all murderous

banish

set

now

tyrants' blood.

so

similar

to

of Aymon,

explains the

her
The

one

very

title

friends

well

thoughts

"

the
218

wife

Legend

known

upon

was

of

in

Aja

Frau

clung for

original Aja

Charlemagne,

in the

bestowed

Stolbergs immediately
and

self
her-

"

house.'

my

in

more

lay carefully

seldom

were

und

similar

betook

had

she

occasions.

wine

it; but

and

wines

which

which

is true

Here

Dichtung

continually

oldest
There

festive

high-coloured

exclaimed,

from

and

in

cheerful, she

1706-19-28-48,

tended

and

watched

out

of

thirst

tyrant in her

these

turn

her

large casks.

vintages

of

becoming

were

cellar where

her

to

to

something

to

dinner-

villains.

But

expressions, which

much

was

Goethe

(tellingthis story

"...

Wdhrheit);

them

insatiable

an

scarcely heard

had

tionalism
conven-

drove

there

peaceful

manifested

of all such

Goethe

life," says

the

at

of

and

stones

Accordingly

was

mother

My

"

tyrants

minions

with

ignominiously away."
of

FRIENDS

rude

them

assailed

talk

WOMAN

the

the
Count

"

of the
many,
Gerwhich

their hostess
remainder
sister

Aymon

of

AJA

FRAU

and

quarrel
has

the

so

"

Whereupon,

exile.

oath

from

him

they

fall into

an

adventures

several

years,

afraid

are

to

Accordingly,

persons.

they

whom

with

clothes

they

the

waits

herself

and

drinking and

and

brings
a

silver
Of

brother.
her
to

boys.
the

which
She

course,

up

Rath

herself

in the

adopted

to

best

the
'219

for

shelter

cellar

she

pours

guilty

recognizes

legend relating

from

indebted
name

the

the

Rheinhold,

wine

eating

are

into

that

Frau

Rome.

end, the mother

was

change

wine, which

part of the

of the

Goethe

goes

best

gives

it is the

But

bringing
Frau

and

cup

to

they

while

merry,

of the

proper

pilgrims,

some

from

and,

making

oath,

gate, representing

castle

them

on

some

up

their

they beg

which

pilgrims just rettimed

are

Aja

into

after

them,

revisit

to

they journey thither,

as

before

food

and

meet

after

covers

father's

in

compel

they

should

sons

desire

themselves

present

forcing

brothers,

their

of

near

which

the

account

on

four

with

pursue

being

his

absence

an

seized

are

Emperor.

Emperor

up

The

and

but,

home

their

hands.

his

many

deliver

to

sons

Charlemagne

prisoner, the

brothers, he

father, Ajnnon,

the

is taken

hand,

does

these

the

three

his

of

course

of
of

son

the

one

by

vain

In

but

youths;

at

runs"

kill

to

In

sons.

accompanied

into

the

story

misfortune

the

goes

of his four

mother

the

with

the
for

cellar
her

to

title.

enthusiasm

GOETHE

and

in her

Aja

enlists

she

"

Since

the

with

possible

the

the

urges

indeed,
in

give

so

you,

should

lose

much

this

this way

In

on.

rejoice in
of

life.

everyday

had

she

than

The

Fritz, thanking

to

her,

make

All
her

own

quaint
make
behind

us

Frau

as

result

for the

Aja's

letters

and

the

only
words.

the

done

her
she

on

much
son's
wrote

giving

was

delightful reflections
personality.

eloquent
though
220

would

acted

of

he

play

among

heard

spelling and

more

For

Fritz

Aja

not,

arrangement.

wholesome

peculiarities of
them

are

were

absence

pleasure

of the

glad

the

letters which

charming

very

buoyant

Frau

previously

him

it

as

joys, and

your

little

company,'

had

we

live

be,"

something

at

unpleasantness."

its

suggestion and

more

I should

know

It need

was

To-day

out.

as

it

keep

only

"

she

lived.

would

to

Goethe

Yesterday

way

he

apd

month?

trouble

much

you

with

contact

son

my

were

every

von

that

whom

else,how

if you

me

evening invited

in the
and

it to

'

this

"

close

with

one

any

child,

send

diary, and

Beloved

than

the

Fritz

in order

as

constantly with

him

about

more

into

come

from

acquaintance

correspondent

"

little

to

but

nothing

intimates,

earliest

Great

are

you

herself

down

her

him,

through

may,

her

to

Amalia

as

FRIENDS

calling

letters

from

Stein, whom,

WOMAN

her

Duchess

Dowager

him,

HIS

find

soon

we

Frau

AND

she

of

Their

ptmctuation
of

was

the
a

woman

daughter

AND

GOETHE

first

very

regions

step had

the

1744

heart.

The
four

in

before

secret

life

that

"

Goethe

France

of

laws

had

been

and

from

wife's

his yotmg

himself, with

children

father
"

him

though

"

and

Wolfgang,

had

rather

repairs

he

thought

and

lonely
gave

and

so

in which

he

to

too,

devoted

that

seen,

So

of it in the
years

passed
222

until
she

the
was

her

devotedly loved

he
have

we

many

not

was

bitterly disliked

of him.

he

for

down

heavy,

For

it

way

as

time

in

Italy,

to

settle

to

outlet

own

contemptuous

senior.

profession

it very

Cornelia

in his

Goethe,

her

tour

his

of view.

another

school.

from

her

seriousness, to the training

mind

young

gave

released

point

characteristic

volatile

of her

made

He

of

knowledge

grand

ready

now

in

Emperor

Caspar
years

practised

was

died

her

with

the

affairs

business

of Herr

crammed

domestic.

heavy

real

twenty-one

on

in

therefore, enjoyed

the

wife

Holland,

and
years,

some

her

the

tiniversities,sent

three

the

faced

she

teresti
in-

only thirteen!

was

had,

in

an

Emperor

luxury of mourning

being

of

doctor

rich

Herr

the

years

here

precocity

Textor

Fraulein

heavenly

indulging

have

melancholy

the

lovelorn

is

we

Goethe's

Elizabeth

when

"

for

For

and

new

Bettina

fiction

side-light on
of

FRIENDS

such

Unless

flights of

her

WOMAN

opened

her."

to

of

one

HIS

he
house

of

away,

was

must
to

patientl
imhave
whose

concentrated
not

too

much

AJA

FRAU

regretted, in 1782,
world

that

the

and

explains

wife

has

and

it

to

seems

has

"

not

good

"

warmed

"

The

highest

of him

best

that

however,

me,

himself

express

the

in

naturally, they get the

It

Goethe's

father
old

poor

of self-expression, whereas

power

had

son

strongly

feels

to

thus:

reason

no

just

been

not

the

had

gentleman

Arnold

William

deal

that

and

did

Goethe

posterity

just because

him

to

posterity."

with
Herr

"

So,

degree.

of

that

fact.
The

tender

of

devotion

Aja

Frau

husband
him

after

as

she

many

possessed

hard

and

her

test

we

patience

visit from
the

grief was
by

no

stances,

"

her

birth

best
of

one

such

would

the

second

Cornelia
friends

have

Frankfort

duty

well

as

her

Though
time

gnunbling
with

letters

to

put

peevish

or

the

from

rather

In

1771

'to

and
as,

her

"

the

mother

under

possible

Cornelia

child, and

thought
223

Weimar

secretary-servant,

looking forward

beloved.
her

this

by Goethe's
in

and

piteous.
means

in

of

to

beautifiil.

most

was

remained

qualities.
at

old

poor

from

sense

sympathy

written

Philip Seidel

with

keen

was

and

are

only joy
of them

most

find her

never

exacting invalid
Her

departure

of cheerfulness

philosophy

which

years

engaging

very

very

seven

Goethe's

young

that

show

the

during

her

to

the

they might

died,

parents'
had

been

circimi-

be,

but

AND

GOETHE

Aja

Frau

was

real

very

"

faith.

have

that

is

that

know

who

in the

now

grave

flash

and

the

poor

mother

husband

had

shutting

of

be

to

as

if

in

before

it is

of

who

hath

formed, who

need

to

blood

gushed

myself

cut

belief in Him

out

in
be

me

knives

with

; who

it would

hears

one

'

it?

daughter,

there

was

be

evil

sustained

the

"

God

without

without
and

no

heart

my

having

lances

till the

word, is love

impossible to

who

whom
of my

thought

the

knows

him

grief. Without

my

head,

the

careless

heart

My

Shall

God

in

rock

My

to

of his

done

not

imder

sink
a

hairs

falls ;

sparrow

Lord

as

and

"

death

'

the

"

Lavater,

bear.

to

him

the thought,

not

dear

winter

the

are

unexpectedly

everything.

above

firm

the

numbers

of

messenger

shall

only daughter,

much

startle

word

she

witnesses

much,

would

the

His

our

one.

door

I did

as

were

whole

but

"

whoUy

ill the

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Cornelia,

our

them

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strength,"

1777).

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letter

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crushed;

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me,

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he

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it about

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herself

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less

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from

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Frau

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to

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her

on

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Weimar

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her

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Goethe's

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Wolfgang

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of

days

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as

FRIENDS

immediately

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WOMAN

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Goethe

wished

reply

answer

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happiness

HIS

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servant,
Wedel

von

also

old

rooms,

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Duke.
dinner

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GOETHE

of

day

AND

down

got
that

they

noise

at

yourself

Frau

suddenly

the

round

and

would

of

writing,

he

has

die

the

on

his

the

Highness

is

his

to
"

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.

inward

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have

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her

laughing,
doing.

altogether

afraid

the

this very

already
and

old

moment

far

away,

Frau

Aja

The

Frau

Rath's

of

which

238

name

to

her

person,

certainly

with

this

do

everybody

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"

Aja

Frau

pet

who,

together,

well-meaning

landlords

satisfaction
'

Roche,

been

I grant

there

spent

amazement

and

merchants

nobles,

neck,

she's

senses,

they

Madame

which

records

half

was

quite
at

days

rapturous
of

and

"

intoxicated

up

what

spot, and

her

watching

runs

to

turn

can

on

father

was

table

she

apart

least

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off."

justice,appears

the

to

before

crying

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the

roimd

paces

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the

Aja

so

just picture

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last Frau

in

making

has

scarcely recovered

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great.

few

at

when

better

days

prise
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house,

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at

real

the

without

and

opens

description.

man

no

door

of

us

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Aja

knowing

his

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door

of Princes, half

best

not

short

and

best

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give

to

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your

joy, tiU

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bell and

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Duke

the

the

FRIENDS

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rejoicing. Well,

gracious Prince,

most

to

HIS

all my

visit

for Goethe.

must

"

very
heart

give

AJA

FRAU

There

her.

these

deserves
as

weU

old

Rath

and

it

attack

an

to

Weimar.

native

Not

journey

fact, becoming

of Frau

fascinations
for

ten

Whatever

present;
for bad

be

remittance

She

the

truth

by

came

accept

must

she

did

much

I send

it

the

the

old

Goethe
thirdly,

is

the

is to
no

account

'

know

what

following

hear

239

for

and

herewith

me

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nothing

to

make
there
of
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by

in

was,

of

terms:

from
'

of

of it."

to

public

admit, by

their

of Merck

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he

man

good

or

with

it is

it went

I wish

these

Aja

Frau

first; it is

having

iU,
Hfe.

relation

[the hotel
our

the

of his

influence

in saving

me

at

man

on

on

sweet

burden

the

weU

about

way

"

for

accommodation

secondly,

dominant

his

presence

claims

Stein, who,

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as

may

von

instructions:

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have.

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may

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on

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business, but

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and

more

partly,

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did

mother

his

upon

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of her

death

devolved

which

his return

died

greatly lessened

have

either

Goethe

his

the

money

unknown

eyes

though

of

upon

his father

Frankfort,

to

certainly

business

when

even

set

of

for

closeness

gift^

twelve years

city

reigning

well-known

promptly

son,

than

more

his

revisit

mother.

her

anxiety

was

saying,

Aja,

Frau

fully

so

of

welcome

very

sent

or

for

then

wotdd

there

without

of his

August

husband

her

And

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goes

probably

was

to

the

living who

she."

as

retinue

had

Karl

again

joys

his

and

which

mother

no

pleasure in this entertainment

as

Duke

is

to

pay

in

the

not

to
a

dear

Zeil];

little arrangement;

GOETHE

AND

clear

perfectly

and

extent

that

of

both

powers

letter

taken

that

nature."

1784,

And

when

I could
I

be

lady

so

reference
had

been

early part
be

to

also.

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returned
best

rather

we

the

dear

in

friend

the

compliment,

hair,and

and

rather

venture

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me

of

his

240

duties."
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the

little

son,

from
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corre-

Fritz,
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made.
in

the

year

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patron's

for

good

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think

that

mother
.

his silhouette

"

corpulent;
to

you

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her

find:

going

was

were

adding
her

yet

of

following

the

sent

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stout

of

of

tell

Goethe,

by

them

had

to

been

adopted

after he

in

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description

Aja

Stein's

between

"

to

bonds

wrote,

natural

and

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the

nature

other

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has

like
he

my

in

gradually

fleeting idea

drawn

von

almost

of

began

that

which

to

said

thirty-one hours, and

most

Frau

this

sweetheart

business,

left for my

with

has

and

herself

attachment'

strange

himself

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in

from

more

sister

on

benefit, however,

this

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the

have

nothing

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the

been

Eisenach

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lad

has

entertain

thither.

"

ever-larger

an

Goethe

Lavater:

in Frankfort

cannot

to

his

absorbed

her

suffered

of mother,

to

at

heart

one

to

bond

FRIENDS

passion for

his mother.

place

and

me;

WOMAN

and

no

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the

his

mind

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a

HIS

she

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appearance
in

am

have

that

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ex-

person

brown

could

eyes

well

FRAU

the

personate

mother

persons

maintain

Goethe

is my

This

Aja

Fritz

went

twelve
which

enjoyed

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he

was

carriage

there

he

was

received

with

drawn

by

from

box

was

led

congratulations.
in

Temple

the

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of Fame

laurel

gold
twelve

his

upon

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brow.

German

princes

Frankfort,

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of

carrying fifty persons,

at

In

coronation.
1

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all this
Boston

and

Loves
to

Fritz
and

241

be

balloon

ready

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ad-

place

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as

p. 299

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to

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medals

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theatre

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enthusiasm.

amid

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his

when
of

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to

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wildest
to

was

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of

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in

lad

fair-time.

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while

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ascensions

stage his bust

singing couplets

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ascension

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balloon

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up

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at

and

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feature

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to

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Cherubino,

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1785,

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see

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woman

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returned

fail to

characteristic, for

the

he

as

letters, this

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to

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to

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no

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Prince

son."

was

Mozart's

of

that

allusion

Frau

AJA

for
an

et seq.

chanced

capable
the

next

onlooker.

AND

GOETHE

wonder

No

HIS

regarded

he

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Frankfort

as

ideal

an

place

of residence.

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was

kindness

Many

Fritz
for

"

happy

is

he

narrations

best

to

that

now

respect,"

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Frau

of love

of

eyes

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poet

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the

life.

much

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von

his

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one

do

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in Fritz's
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is

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me.

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pleasure

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cheerful

the

her

others,

for

eyes

had

how

mother
wilt

be

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society
"

the

ished
aston-

improved

in

every

Stein

his

letter

in

6, 1785.

through

three

next

Fritz

well

can

great pleasure.

me

deepened

see

the

between

for all

for

thanked

Swedenborgian

the

lad

of

of October

and

of

the

to

mother

child," he

children's

philosophy

"

stout.

his

he

out

giving

manner

found

himself

and

wholly

now

use

Frau

me.

well, better

so

grateftilto

holiday

through

look

to

writes

upon

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me

charming

are

the

after

fed

very

this, done

find

he

eyebrows

letter,

lavished

I have

you

was

thanks,"

have

the

to

Cherubino."

did

Goethe

stuffed

bread-and-butter

think

it, for

Countess

you

owe

you

people

believe

in his

Aja quaintly
the

there

"

goodies?

with

he not

and
it

we

his

Frankfort

obtain

Aja's everyday

the

years

some

life.
242

"

correspondence

friend

goes

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little house-

AJA

FRAU

things

hold

"

letter

half

eight;

and

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friends

the

the

through

the

are

her

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the

where

he

from

had

everybody

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which
relics

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of it

embroidery
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now

and

passing
was

except

the

of the

together
in

the

Vividly interesting, also, to

here

shown

yearning

by

of

means

enthusiasm

for

of

the

these

which

kept

music

Goethe

243

says,

left

Carlsbad,

of the

summer,

profound

secret

first

following letter:

Rath

made

Italy.

Aja

Dtike, his mother's

Frau

the

other

lonely days.

portion

fascinating
the

"little
in

Frau

Goethe

in the

coming

pillow

displayed

pleasures and

piano, lace-making^ and

1786

journey

Bettina

little

hobby-horses,"

of

autumn

knowledge

'

"

the

always

trudges along

one

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cheerfully through

Italy.

for

so

four
which

at

specifically described

more

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theatre.

carry

and

with

or

otlier days God

big ones."

for

three

I'ombre,

or

it with

dinner

to

evening

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reading, playing

as

the

play quadrille

"

pleasures

I go

real

is my

enjoy

me,

world, enjoying the

asking

letters

in

something;

me

to

why

least

that

peace,

Sundays

greatest fun.

vouchsafes

not

to

come

have

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and
.

peace,

tiU

feathers

the

in

see

one

stay in bed

to

of my

out

grants it

heart.

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do

nor

chooses

get

them,"

saw

you

sun

don't

God

as

thanMul

we

the

as

upset myself, for

delight,

when

as

do, too, and

past

should

only

runs,

longer,

much

are

Herr

and

the

are

Goethe

Rath

the

among

house

pilgrim,

are

piano

very

at

the

kindled

upon

intimate

Frankfort.

large
in his

maps
son

GOETHE

AND

HIS

"

"

of all I must

First

arrived

have

I entered

which

here
"

dreams

wishes

actual

childhood,
heard

to

express
"

All

with

through

of

in

and

incognito.
so

speak

that

now

from

my

of which
I

this

"

life's

of my

many

engravings, and

often

so

Ferrara,

unknown,

objects which,

the

given

Bavaria,

Venice,
and

journey,
has

and
being fulfilled,

are

seen

father

that

secrecy,

come

I felt that

nature

I have

my

absolute

kind

mother,
My

Vicenza, Padua,

'86.

sound.

I have

happiness
and

in

see

in

I preserve

What

and

4th Nov.,

dear

Florence, quite alone

and

also

the

tell you,

upon

Tyrol, by Verona,

Bologna

Rome,

safe

pleasure.

great

me

here

FRIENDS

WOMAN

cannot

you.

things, it is true, I

these

all the

benefit

more

and

great deal

late, yet

rather

see

in

short

time.
"

How

depend
I

shall

long

"

you

back
for

soon

at

matters

will

we

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stay I do

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should
as

man

my
you

In any

and

to

share

and

this

only

much;

say
in my

live

joy.

to

and

I shall

ment
greater enjoyWrite

244

you

together; but

friends.
are,

pay

case

us.

time

speedily

new

how

between
not

myself and

length

home.

enjoy ourselves

secret

at

are

it will

yet know;

not

Switzerland

through

return

remain

wished
come

how

upon

visit; then
must

I shall

also whatever

to

me

news

GOETHE

like

AND

brook.

clear

agreeable

never

[calm] days.

seem

monotonous,
is the

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not

can

pass

entirely alone, wonder

that

happy

as

goddess, and

than

more

be

to

longer

no

Speyer,

at

and

Offenbach,

in

it is

and

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of

rest

thou

such

made

has

one

thy friends

like
"

Dear

to

whether

do

not

half

this

know

best, but

chaise

brought

and

it shall

doubt

thou

(as thou

me

is very

think

comest

I should
my

sole

days.

they

were

; not

When

often

of
"

246

and

be

splendid.
to

occurs

something

be

thinking
one,
me.

thou

hope

let

I
art

for the

be

every

heard

post-

and

hope

Farewell,

thy faithful mother,

Elizabeth

as

me

thy hands.

wiU

to

poultry,

living in Rome,

beloved

house

his

into

disagreeable

is

roasts,

just

come

art

Roche

end

truly

writest). We

thou

thee, otherwise

one,

sea

letter may

where

before

disappointed
dear

the

news

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game,

"

humble

an

son,

in conito

from

of

sands

the

The

thou.

as

people

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handsomely

to

as

in this world

all these

here

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strides

giant

be

bought himself

all still what

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and

Papa. La

there

proposes

live-long day

not

is that

my

thinking

my

contented.

has

but

quieter

evening

needs

one

happy

are

whole

thy old acquaintances

from

me

for

life would

the

me;

in

were

Providence

such

to

active

Thus

powers.

commotion

thousands

but

more

and
I thank

and

me

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Disqmet

to

my

body

HIS

Goethe."

FRAU

For

over

"

this

year

anticipation of

eager

AJA

the

which

visit

promised, dwelling constantly

glorious day
hundred

of

different

which

and

informed

through

Stein, which,
her.

herself

found

High

How

was

to

Frau

von

to

she

1787,

9,

the

to

for ten

worshipping

been

kept

forwarded

were

following letter

had

his

Of

she

January

on

the

writiag

son's

so

his

seeing
to

remain

with
"

Your

Rome

see

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up,

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my

the

tion
communica-

greatest

has

he

which
of

been

rejoice

his

love

obedient

joy.

and

high and
and
"

247

enjoy
I
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to

can

mend
com-

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your

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It

nightly

world

heartily

most

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old

his

that

fulfilled.

feel and

must

the

rejoice in
son

daily thought,

continued

most

for

you

masterpieces

myself and
your

to

happiness

the

the

owe

friend:

interesting letters.

youth

The

excellent

lady,
I

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noble

thanks

many

dream.
in

that,

was

and

of the

was,

Italy

Journal-letters

calf

years

my

in

Goethe

whom

woman

"

it

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fatted

the

experiences

request,

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and

his honour.

the

ia

upon

in

Goethe's

at

mind

serving

lived
had

killed

be

to

movements

she

in her

arrival

of

ways

then

was

son's

her

"

faithftil mother

E.

noble

and

lady,

friend,
Goethe."

GOETHE

Evidently

resolved

March

of

Then,

happy,
eyes
very

he

wars,

so

"

Hke

what

neglect of Frau

Aja

He

for his mother's

concerned

was

expense

and
be
come

in

sell the

try to

old

imposed

bUletings, and

to

to

move

to

Weimar

Frankfort

Aja had

no

too

mind

in

He

the

case

uncomfortable
to

by

leave
248

her

him.

see

both

going

mother

very

to be

and

in the

deeply

advised
which

house, through

easily managed.

more

himself

her

more

tinguishe
part of her dis-

comfort

upon

the

previously seemed

the

on

seeing

redeem

to

means

of

her

much

taxings

lodging which

would

pressed her, too,

war

necessary

his

has

showed

now

made

far

go

"

years

Frankfort

they

on

her with

Four

made

reader

son.

to

that

candid

of the

visits

Duke

actually did

at

early

about

Mainz

to

have

to

sentence:

consoled

she

stopped

happy

the

occasion."

These

coming.

and

have

journey

the

to

mother

my

before

away

the

on

find

we

spect.
re-

Frankfort

sent

was

outward

appears

visit to

letter

and

other

pass

the

the

year

home,

some

to

were

about

no

Stein,

von

He

had

she

possible

not!

undeceived

way

my

Prau

all

came

that

already

hope

by

of

17

on

me

hero

1788, for in

March,

have

her

his mind

changed

FRIENDS

though

feeling for

show

all the

WOMAN

mother,

of

to

After

HIS

Goethe's

warmth

great

in

AND

should
for her.

native

dty

make
But

to

life
Frau

and, with

FRAU

After

the

painting

now

in

the

AJA.
Museum

Frankfort.

of

the

Goethe

House

at

'

11

FRAU

her

ustial optimism,

of actual

danger

When

worried

health.
after

All

night,

of his

four

send

instead

of

men

through!
one's

to

what

They
heart.

So

for

she

give

merchant

who

to

with

major

food

out

that

sent

them

and

to
It is

now

"

they're

they
they

get
went

dish

of

imagine

can

you

her

change

by
to

it

precious

"

as

'

wine-

because
had

and

249

Goethe

been

affectionately

old

gentlemen."

advantageously disposed

show-place

being

young

Aja

wines

the

actually
"

mainly

Frau

delightful apartment
a

from

was

Goethe-haus

which

letters

moving

to

florins

attracted

thus

house

this

cellar in

in

consent

1795,

those

store

large

her

was

characterized

'

dinner,

22,000

excellent

moved

starved

historic

the

for

purchased

The

in

and,

accomplished,

wont

of

yesterday

lieutenant

they think

amount

so

their

did

home

of the

were

tell you

can

as

in excellent

Prussian

hours

much

as

the wounded

him

the

eight

part of it,am

me

hasn't

royal feast they had."

Yet

old

But

pork

roast

and

Paradise.

in

best

didn't

They

aU, but

is the

drink

find

we

confusion

I sleep my

and

death,

to

things,

and

God;
eat

half

of

aspect

this muddle

every

which

worried

was

warlike

all,thank

and

want,

else

at

me

through

"

suggestion

the

pooh-poohed

herself.

to

the

over

writing,

her

she

everybody

indeed,

AJA

of she

overlooking
museum,

however.

the

GOETHE

AND

for

she

coloxir and

into

' '

to her

the

son

hadn't

town

firmly convinced
should
and

would
it

decided

the

all

to

found

the

life

French

the
tempted
at-

French

she

marching

all,for

at

as

dreamt

place; and

was

why
it

that
the

as

madness.

so

everything

one

no

being
Of

plunder;

I left

full

Austrians

of the
me

the

aU

town

"

the

that

the

wouldn't

the

hold

was

life in

to

frightened

pack?

to

her

watching

against

idea

quite calm, for

Austrians
showed

dty

they

I trouble

kept

bands,

there

sharing eagerly in

The

of

and

pleasant experience.

the

hold

to

of

time

July, 1796, when

in

days

wrote

not

was

"

space,

she, however,

Even

bombarded

open

incidental

movement

soldiers.

three

and

FRIENDS

the

playing

the

to

had

drilling of recruits

of

chief

months

some

listening

WOMAN

Frankfort's

markt,

Ross

HIS

was

the

sequel

But

as

they

same,

things began

to

look

Commandant

was

I could

all the

purest

the

serious.
.

"

Austrian

The

opposite
"

the

to

me,

with

French
every

happen

bombardment

in

one

room

little I

morning

it

eyes

the

and

went

began

bound
of

what

we

all

groTind
up

to

250

to

evening, the
down

went

floor.

up

master,
burgo-

going

was

bed, but

again and

just

hullabaloo
our

up,

12th, towards

the

on

watch

terror

began;

landlord's

in the

their

On

next.

slackened

so

staying

we

to

our

it

When

towards
had

two
to

get,

GOETHE

for

now

actual

AND

seven

mistress

it

affectionately
in

conceal

Lili

or

her

who

could

make

her

mind,

she

him

Son:
I

of love

for me,

Ah, what

friends

the
the

made

green

satin

picture that

was

Moreover,

him

dinner

actually

the

room,

behind
252

it.

letter

1799:

how

thou,

La
out

little dwelling.

my

has

given

gavest

magnificent
Summa

me

and

ment,
establish-

thy whole

thou

to

could

Mama

of

first time

and

had

son

ii,

return

shift with

thy house

delicious

high-bom

joyous madchen

of December

Since

of

two

effort

no

See, for instance,

date

hast

the

beloved

for

splendid description she

the

the

admiration

the

wrote

superior being who

really,feel for

Roche

superb

was

under

of

father.

happy

of

always

Aja made

and

young

sometimes.

awe

"Dear

Her

wrong.

sent

all the

him

Goethe

on

and

Frau

only

herself, she

For

Stein, her

his heart

to

verges

friends

delight that, instead

taken

no

her.

and

marble-hearted

Christiane

Temperamentally,

common,

now

do

her.

to

her

daughter

approval.
dis-

stem

illicit relation
to

brought
as

of

one

really Hked

boast

Aja's

Frau

that

was

have

not

Christiane

much

liaison
to

co\ild

grandchildren
treated

Not

the

if not

virtual

the

regretted Goethe's

she

because

to

house.

seems

have

to

had

of

this

She
and

been

his

FRIENDS

WOMAN

years

towards

attitude

HIS

her,

the

curtain,

summarum,

FRAU

entertained

she
What
God

keep

thou

Hve

to

and

earth;
build

long

thus

will
for

houses

it.

imagine.

canst

and

thee,

bless

blessings

thou

me

with

day

entire

an

was

and
on

mothers'

me

that

day

AJA

mayest

it

the

be, for
children.

Amen."
One

during

was

August

Goethe,
lad

of

he

visit

made

who

had

recollection

this

occasion

his
"

back

to

you

who

so

kindly received

wrote.

that

I have

been

good hopes

period

often
this

joyously

of

life.

health
to

gives

repeat

better

W.,

it.

May

and

the

most

"

son.

am

253

for

vividly brought

This

first
so

all

His

that

into
of

he

more

well.

We

him

youth has
more

may

serious

more

continuous

yo\ir

with

to

essay

well with

He

exercise

all send

grateful greetings.

6, 1805."

hope

procures

greatest pleasure.

very

for

Heartily thank

I wish

myself,

of

part of the

you

now

succeeded

over

some
hand-

charming,

gives

description

us

weather,

fairest,best
"

His

is very

for his future.

pass

by

acknowledgment

him.

and

one,

be

to

grown

friends.

has

enjoyed

soon

grandmother

thereby

are

old

my

f orttmate

We

into the world

gaily and

good

and

his

of it

narration

he

Aja

his young

to

us,"

out

now

of his presence

pleasure which

look

to

Goethe's

deeply devoted

was

the

on

Frau

that

fifteen.

kindness

her

time

happy

very

G.

has
in
our

GOETHE

AND

six months

than

Less

married

Goethe

HIS

WOMAN

after

his

grandmother,

show

him

her

heart's

too.

No

the

Eckermann

one

recollections, when
visit to his
the

at

palace, and

on

costume

man

it

the

had

the

stairs ; but

she

took

him

did

In

face.
she

the

table
the

she

of

rest

Prince

the

guests

that

then

drank

her

she

whereupon
health

of his
old

The

during

paid

him

seated

at

no

his

friendly

most

that

and
her

of the
The

Primate.
her

of

son,

proposed

turn

the

came

her

could

the

Even

way.

not

she

said

to

254

of

cup

troubles

permanently
friend

the

Although

visit.

every

to

went

stillpossessed a

dregs

the

to

that

in

this

drained

relates

and

the

was

grandson

her

lady and

and

age

Frau

deportment

the

health

she

old

the

conversation, however,

he

seventy-seven

now

particular

Highness.

evening

every

dine

to

clerical

her

on

second

his usual

first

put

his

meet

wore

from

and

rose

to

to

Goethe's

of

mark

when

the

gradually perceived

down

invited

abbe

an

not

of

course

as

he

for

side

of

were

come

as

Even

high circles,

come

grown,

Prince,

seems,

in

has

They

particular respect.
by

and

could

she

tells of young

grandmother.

politeness,
Rath

August

therefore,

content

written

was

yotmg

delightful anecdote

more

than

above

When

visited

us

the

Christiane.

next

to

FRIENDS

"

play

she

was
"

Frohnatur

pleasure which

attendant

depress

upon

her.

wljo had

come

Falk
to

AJA

FRAU

contented

with

few

longer.

more

for

weeks

"

health,

her

about

inquire

Thank
and

myself,
TiU

have

striven

little

never

knows

that

yesterday

I could

myself

good scolding

ashamed

good

of

days

when

of

does

it

thou

want

past

the

goal,

died

visitors
Der
this

of

the

very

Germany's

now

make

the

What

naughty

thee?

'

old?

Dost

Look

directly
better

grew

art

you,

there

set

because

last

year
Frau

lovely

only

of all not

meeting

1808,

13,

with

resting-place

Frankfort

der

had

hast

naughty."

Her

every

Grab

not

forever, and

roses

years

and

I gave

face.

on

But

thou

art

wry

cross

upon

September

gaiety.

myself, and

to

experience

greatest

heart

so

seventy

over

Ay,

impatient and

so

lays

walk

I said

longer

no

with

to

improvement,

an

She

to

then

'

shouldst

ptiU such

God

Hke

besides, and

thou

art

quite

so

Thou

Wolfgang

thou

myself

God

longer,

Rathin.

come,

once

it needs.

no

said,

am

been

against
what

and

old

not

blessed

is what

was

"

that

mean

the

in

and

I have

myself

and

days

evil

them,

when

this

thyself,

enough

the

best

stand

endure

can

now

intolerable, and
child

God,

she

so

seek

out

Rath

Goethe

who

woman

greatest poet.

255

serenity

is in

loved,
the

was

the

and

to

the

but

very
many

marked

stone
"

this

pay

tribute

mother

of

CHAPTER

ITALY

IN

For

As

life.
father's

very

point

was

not

Rome.

His

Citronen

bliihen"

deep-seated
this

to

Italian

so

thou
the

Where
While
Know'st

Thither

gold

the

land

orange

thou
I

boughs
it well?

might,

my

and,

to

"

to

his

expressed

where

the

citron

blue

enrich

the

fragrant

best-beloved,
256

die

wo

look

and

at

sky

with

in

us,

to

which

even

bloometh,

ripple
groves?

thee,

flee!

gravings
en-

as

leafage glows?

the

that

seeing

emotion:

pale

he

previous

verse

from

Oh,

that

the

overwhelming

gives

his

thick

through

find

much

so

hatmting

of

on

time

imable

colour

been

of

his

twice

poignant

some

of

by

Land

as

unable

The

the

gentle zephyrs
laurel

For

because

exquisitely

English,

Know'st
And

South.

place

happiness

been

scenery,

the

fed

the

been

had

book

is

this

limping
"

he

Latin

for

long

Goethe's

been

only

great

Mignon's.

journey

desire
all

had

of

himself

towards

yearnings

as

of
open

the

have

to

had

thither,

journeying

yet

of the

he

manhood,

of

had

memories

enthusiastic

dream

been^the

imagination

his

lad

reaching

since

had

Italy

years

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

WITH

"

in

the

mere

memories
of

apropos

mann,

and
I

tremendous

To

since

never

For

look

however,

Italy

months

in

pages

devoted

the

coimtry

as

before

one

or

adequately

the

whole

with

since

felt real

anima

could

he

been

of

man.

have

tion
situa-

my

gladness."
must,

we

Naples,

than
the

have
so

with

the

though
visit

in

succeeded

has

fruitage of

Naples

he

had

be

perienced
ex-

only

feeling, I

disappointing,

of what

example

brilliant

is to

prose

Goethe's

to

Elegies rather

The

are

Italy,

that

gladness

Roman

Journey.

Italian

the

this

of

the

to

since

never

of

say

of

happiness

reflection

the

written

what

may

really

come
be-

Ecker-

to

had

know

indeed, compared

I have

Rome,

at

to

arisen

I
it

what

elevation, this

this

well

Indeed,

I felt

have

Rome

day

one

enthusiasm

him;

myself.
in

of Italy had

professor who

certain

blame

cannot

said

Goethe

with

spoken

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

joyous experiences

after

Long

"

WITH

ITALY

IN

offer

done

with

minded.

No

rendering

so

all its natural

,

beauty,

its

its

joy

in

brilliant
book's
"

measure

Lewes

Goethe

frank

squalor,

its

life,love,

and

portion
close, and

of

tinsel,and
the
the

the

order,
dis-

its colour, its

sensuousness,

all its pagan

above

out-of-doors.

Italian
earlier

But

Journey
pages

by

is
no

this
at

the

means

up."
is

filled with

stayed through

wonder
three
257

that

golden

Venice,

where

autumn

weeks

GOETHE

where

and

himself
reached
in

to

up

full

Rome.

the
the

with

end

of

his

before
us

have

life

no

he

other

together."

Eternal

of

the

in her

each

Goethe's

own

chief

housemate

the

painter, a

man

had

already

been

was

indeed

Corso,

near

of about

glad
the

to

masquerading

even

if Goethe

the

Eternal

City,

linked

together

on

him

close of

the

other

was

age,

women,

him.

Tischbein,
whom

to

lodgings

German

not

lived

on

of the
that

two

of Rome

splendid painting

"

258

Goethe

But

Tischbein
artists

by

in

the

would

be

of

the

virtue

Outside

the

poet

merchant.

with

he

who

and

service
his

the

loosened

is

in Rome

to

Let

entered

upon

own

"

Hill, the brilliant young

names

with

he

exert

welcome

as

had

has

considerable

Pincian

now

former's

of

spend

his

at

Just

Charlotte,

three

to

came

way,

quently
Conse-

letter!

to

which

on

perfect happiness

see

to

hold

influences

observe,

Rome,

in

of every

than

her

had

Perugia, he

and

we

hardly

when

City

because

But

it to

himself

written

thought

he

possible delay.

Hne

had

description.

necessity of getting

finds

every

not

really yield

not

found

1786, that

from

arrival

he

did

sea,

Italy until

of

urgent

he

of

Florence

least

October,

exuding

bursts

as

until

the

saw

could

Verona,

it is not
the

time,

Goethe

Pleasant

himself

Rome

to

FRIENDS

enjoyment

passing, Padua,

felt within

first

is that

to

WOMAN

wonderful

more

fact

the

HIS

for the

he,

inspire him
But

AND

Rome,"

GOETHE

Resident

AND

written
that

the

English

June, 1766,
London

adtilation

and

A.

favourite

"

and

season,

The

to

midst

of

and

from

the

in

an

in

describes

little

at

upon

Sir

mind,

its

frame,

in

few

which

fastened

people

then

this

ever

ing
charm-

alluringly

about

as

soon

idle great.

Thackeray

"

and

There
she

famous

twenty-

little head

great
the

intelligent,
is

something

continues,

portrait

pearls mixed

two

her

Lady

had

sit to

to

dignified,"

the

of
was

woman

charming

shoulders, while

light folds

those

Square,

no

marked.

"in

"

The

peculiar,sprightly,tender,

Reynolds'

hair, and

the

"

were

exceptionally brilliant

Angel

eyes

and

Joshua

in

loops of
upon

face

broadly

homely

once

with

Miss

obstinate, the

features

the

novel

her

of age, with

six years

amongst

precipitated, in

was

as

Miss

has

Angelica, points

portraits of the

the

who

Angelica got

Berkeley

artist, whom

young

paint

don
Lon-

misery

vantage-ground

particularly Uked

men

of

latter, for she

enjoying opporttinities such

before

Gerard,

Patronage."

home

Wentworth's

had

of

amusements

the

into

the

to

aristocracy of this period

of the

full share

off

Frances

two

"

Totir

Grand

her

delightful Life

the

out

FRIENDS

took

of

hers.

most

WOMAN

who

much

so

be

to

were

Venice,

at

where

HIS

charmingly
with

curls

slim

of

the

260

gelica
Anset

heavy

falling down

figure

is

draped

by jewelled bands, such

wore."

"

as

GOETHE

After

the

OUTSIDE__ROME.
painting by Tischbein.

ANGELICA
From
Alte

the

KAUFFMAN.

portraitby herself

Pinakothek

Museum,

now

in the

Munich.

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CHRISTIANE.
From

pencil drawing by Goethe.

ANGELICA

From

See p. 291.

KAUFPMAN.
the portrait by Sir
Joshua Reynolds.

IN

ITALY

Since

WITH

ANGELICA

in addition

to

it is small

with
the
the

heart.

famous
her

much

what

was

it

At

that

care

as

whose

painted hers,

the

of

tongues

early

marriage

heart

from

too
soon

for

man

the

just

ness
friendli-

suddenly
portrait

his

seemed

both

come.
besoon

not

gossips wagged

of her

years

did fall to her

which

claimed

(and

to

to

joyously

actually

was

regarded

society) persiaaded her

with
learn
had

that

him.
he

was

to

Only
no

go

when

cotmt

in

through
it

already pledged marriage

261

too

was

and

she
vows

no

Horn

London

nuptial

mony
cere-

late did

Vjdfe,in
to

but

fellow

de

best

the

those

indeed,

was,

Frederick

Count

the
so

during

dashing, attractive

be

lot

England

in

career

pitiful travesty.

who

and

asked

probably

had

painted

rate, she

any

the

his

says,

the

she

had

"

grateful for

rival

side,

result.

The

artist

be

to

in love

married

her

she

"

gallantry of

and

by

either

if he

himself

he

beauty,

the

been

have

ask

not

London

seriously involved

would

did

worth

had

he

he

with

take

of the

after

took

that, on

which

one

had

ments,
accomplish-

have

to

evidence

no

callous, as

contact
to

she

likely she

since

grown

learned

that

fascinating Sir Joshua

to, but

having

is

was

Very

and

musical

is believed

her, but there

attachment

beauty Angelica

and

wonder

Rejmolds

storm.

he

much

so

sprightly wit, charm,

KA.UrFMAN

woman

she
that

GOETHE

of humble

AND

station

HIS

Kfe,

in

WOMAN

he

"

FRIENDS

the

being

count's

real

valet!
In
of

the

execution

of

the

her, she

to

in Golden

nobility
dear

so

portrait

threw

herself

the

continued
was

disguise
fancy
be

to

for

marriage
undergo

the

duped

of

her

if

had

to

the

the

become
sunny
to

this

years

of

of

her

spite of

her

all the

the

presence
who

Goethe,

found

that

the

of

villain

and
last

until

she

listen

return

so,

she

not

she

she

she

success

would
to

the

consented

after

kind

and

could

hungry

sixteen

Vami

after

his

in

desire

heart

attentive

be

in

"

husband.

intime

of

the

'

"

Zucchi

household,

soon

262

arrival

to

who

This

and

that

and

with

to

came

willing

her.

upon

at

there

herself, in 1780, back

worldly
but

command,

been

convenance,

she

London,

with

Then

Rome.
of

only

Zucchi

she

advantageous

an

father

aged

then

and

abroad, did

died

all of the

while

men,

do, however,

of Antonio

marriage

Rome,
at

of

wife

skies

had

impostor

prayer

of

the

her

at

goddesses

by

proving

to

feverish

nearly

All

real claim

no

steadfastly refused
the

England.

she
of

of

the

which

almost

gods and

chance

ordeal

her

1780, when

with

sought

one

Into

surprising rapidity

of

much

than

more

had

off with

her.

to

was

commissions

Square, paintings

in that
to

precious

ever

many

devotion, turning
home

catastrophe Angelica's work

than

more

course

canje

of this

face

in

Rome

IN

ITALY

"

wrote:

be,

which
for

Angelica
her

as

or

she

daily

should

leisure

to

she

and

have

only

do

her

is

She

speaks

my

opinion and
when
He

in

very

to

of

openly

to

advice,

work

old

even

Goethe

Stein,

Angelica

was

we

another
love.

to

jwoman

who

his

I have

given

her

cheer

her

to

be.

"

with

which
to

the

is

had

who

such

Angelica,

with

they feel, as
him
263

soul

perhaps

his
I

him

give

to

as

he
of
him

reticent

talented

little credit.

foundness
pro-

that

adored

do, that

of

about

unusually

are

von

incredible

long

was

Frau

tender

just beginning

was

ardour

considering

go

(early

this time

the

to

piece

friendship

does

will

mention

that

biographers

Angelica

day.

every

never

with

letter

the

woman

Perhaps
of

his

expect him

Goethe's

concerning

to

sympathy,"

might

writing

to

have

not

declares

listened
of

as

In

moved.

deeply

children

should

do

try

great deal about

Zucchi,

study,

."

her,
a

and

more

and
no

and

and

"

have

to

she
to

case

painting

profitable that

have

and

me,

of

care

They

save,

the

her

more

1787), reading Iphigenie aloud

that

far

it.

it

to

the fortune

weary

prefer

with

not

with

am

with

was

work

deserves

with

finds

would

quantity

This, however,

up

husband

necessity

no

she

as

merits, and

have

to

happy

as

She

so.

prepare

KA.UFFMAN

she is herself

old

certain

is not

earns

her

ought

and

ANGELICA

great talent

sale, but

she

WITH

woman.
countryhis
He

ment
treat-

should

GOETHE

have

not

AND

made

her

six, a dangerous
had

been

of

ways,

had

the

as

real

enjoyment

Her

eye

is

profound,
As

for

he

for

and

was

other.
the

her

not

she

said
one

simply

as

lovely

soul

had
of

264

have
is

now

after

dinner

conceive

what

the

with

her.

nism
mecha-

beautiful

so

modest."

inconceivably
that

"

in

art

else."
artists

that

they enjoyed

profound

most

this

such

and

of the

of Goethe

to

Angelica,

It

seeing pictures

so

any

Goethe

to

mind.

feeling for

is

than

often

knowledge

she

Angelica,

it

But
each

"

in

note

cannot

to

now

appealed

Sunday;

You

is in

there

my

every

great, her

so

better

saw

open

there

by

used

who

I go

closer

by Angelica's

thoughtful mood,

can

educated,

so

of art

myself by

authentic
"

know

we

leaving Rome,

on

women

the

in

am

other

That
them

prevent

are

and

beauty

and

"

We

over

galleries.

the

visit

we

I go

settled that

not

bind

to

thirty-

was

finger-tips.

for each

following:

whom

to

one

did

gone.

recognize

we

especiallywhen
no

wish

enthusiasm

passages

He

manly

the

to

Zucchi

could

he

after

but

him,

his

affection

fall in love, and

affections.
of

forty-

now

was

to

fascinating woman,"

ties to this

Goethe's

She

by .Goethe's remark,

"

I feel that

letters

her

old

FRIENDS

woman

artists

feeling warm

in two

height

were

presence

from

"

in

the

Both

power.
the

in

for

age

WOMAN

for him.

care

starved

eight, and

HIS

sweet
"

woman

admiration
who

had

GOETHE

Sunday

AND

for

there

little

show

week

the
"

working
"

forttmate

am

ask

hope

Farewell,

pardon.

reading

soul

me,

for

my

best

and

seen

by Egmont

tact

to
was

delicacy
of

agree

To
very

be

of the

is

very

but

vexed

his

to her

her

sure

the

home.

failure."

not

general

The

and

such

has

He

her

and

The

when

in

same

of me,

Very
266

poet
and

the

vision

Angelica had

as

of the

the

matter,

copies of Egmont
The

honour

also hers.

direction

not

was

unfortimately

must

which

her

the

to

as

first

this

wonderful

paid

of reward.

way

attempt

trace

if I

I do

Egmont,

conception

pretty fellow," the

no

of

fides,
con-

Goethe."

of mind."

portrait of Goethe

it has
at

she

"

own

the

he

I have

is

to

dream,

by

day

Sunday,

design for the title-page was

successful, and

said
a

first

ferences
con-

Angelica's impressionable

frankly delighted.

of making

"

with

at

friend.

consulting

in his

dedicated

were

"

off,

high compliment

these

the

on

you

I know

referred

came

charming

eagerly anticipated.

find you

deeply touched

was

perception

he

read

to

to

tale of enchantment
the

His
for

other

or

tale of enchantment,"

forgive

be

to

one

enough

to

you

then.

him, also,

to

Angelica's

in

plan

arrangements

at

which

day

some

her

to

became

soon

am

always

that

us

FRIENDS

red-letter

was

making

notes

WOMAN

Goethe

brought

which

be

to

came

calendar,

HIS

she

painted.

wrote

his

Angelica

Hkely

that

be
"

It

friends,
is much

critic

was

ITALY

IN

WITH

hazarded

right who

the

the

in which

the

The

allusion

for

Goethe

had

for

here

as

him

as

"

that

made

her

would

have

But

man.

been

his

union

Goethe

that

with

woman

Rome

and

alluring

that

curtail

one

took

of

with

sight of

whom

he

felt

him,
the

end

we

wonderful

scenery,

perfectly qtdet, only making,

mad,
the

great,

great

bewitching

city, "If

in
267

to

to

her
was

no

the

was

account

"

after

1787,

for

Goethe,

the
he
at

his fashion

it became
himself
one

had

he

Tischbein

that

when

trary!
con-

so

February,

SicUy.

Rome

every

means

their

on

assume

marry

southwards

Goethe

eyes."

have'

for which

learn

thus

than

by

of

gaily travelling

and

was

with

Quite

development

and

them

life which

love.

disposed

visiting Naples

esteem,

Vulpina." Perhaps.

indeed

the

who,

would

his

glad

fell in

her

between

better

been

she

are

marriage

the

were

cultural

him

finds

purpose

have

there
of

to

know

Italy. Towards

to

come

the

canvas."

feeling which

Goethe
a

repose

would

Goethe

mation
high esti-

her

on

nature

free

with

Angelica

the

poet interfered

others

that

given that

the

affection

the

she

the

genius

of

not

biographers shotild

But

the

wife, and

his

in

wanting

had

"

Angelica's great admiration

writer,

quite plainly that

such

held

perfectly the

understanding
say

of

is to

KAUFFMAN

opinion that

painter

reproduction

with

to

ANGELICA

must

too

wrote

of

study,

GOETHE

Naples

in

here

began

with

the

delights and

pictures.

senses

in

"

he

(February

wrote

"

had

And
has

phantom

and

Rome,

On

opporttmity

he

made

the

to

see

who

has

poet

still resides
at

writes,

here

length, after

as

the

whom

might

so

be

siren

Prom
"

gether
alto-

ambassador

his

long love

had

aU

and

old

the

them

among

the

done

meeting

took

English

his beautiful

whose

beauty

led

Cas\erta,
March

Sir William

as

268

he

avoid

way,

Hamilton,

astray.

our

of

for

saw

to

now

intimately

noble

Nelson

he

his

came

Harte, the

16, 1787,

Die

constantly thinking

attempt,

contrary,

mistress, Emma
the

1787,

never

incognito and

Sir William

ambassador.

their

impression,

one

could

was

no

his

to

pleasures which

social

he

and

emotion

to-day

that

fresh

Naples."

keep

people.

new

the

to

that

because

in

again is glad,

never

father

Naples Goethe

In
in

in

back

himself

it is said

appeared

unhappy,

people

new

27,

indelible

an

shore
sea-

lost

with

thought

retained

as

of my

said

it be

the

who

all

he

moonlit

fancy with

eager

especially of the objects which

first time.

the

drinking

pardoned

Reise),

father, who

sailing o'er

everywhere

Naples,"

Italianische
my

and

the

on

friends,mingling with

feeding his

vivid

Accordingly
hour

after

hour

fishermen,

chosen

streets,

FRIENDS

WOMAN

only live."

can

the

among

on

one

live, spending

to

waters

HIS

AND

Hamilton,

from
of

art

England,
and

long

GOETHE.

From

portrait

by

Angelica
Goethe

Kauffman,
House,

now

Frankfort.

in

the

Museum

of

the

ITALY

IN

WITH

study, discovered
and

of art

with

him,

old.

She

her

exhibits

perfection, in

dream.

anxious,

rapidly

after another.

one

suits

the

with

the

thinks

that

aU

most

the

The

on

is

rejoiced to be able

he

engaged

old

veil

to

each

with
her

in

coins,
much

Thus
is

thorough

aU

at

any

tuiique. We
enjoyment.

painting her."
269

she

kind

every

the

light

his whole

for

of
her

soul.

He

resemblance

the
of

ay,

"

taste

expression, and

holds

knight

antiques,

Sicilian

in

wonderful

to

wanton,

following

states

makes

discern

can

famous

entertainment
it with

With

into the exhibition

itself.
the

in

here

ravishing variety, all

handkerchief

same

enters

on

pression
ex-

spectator

beholds

mental

all

"

folding of her

head-dress.

the

shawls,

posture,

sad, playiul, exulting, repentant,

or

menacing,

and

of

and

this

of

last the

One

in

movement,

in

Standing, kneeling, sitting,Ijdng down,

reproduce.
grave

it is

the

at

greatest of artists have

the

that

that

so

costume

couple

figure.

Greek

possible variety

look,

fancies

almost

taking

years

beautiful

lives

twenty

Dressed

extremely.

every

and

of

for her

loose, and

hair

She

about

and

made

of nature

woman.

woman

handsome

knight has

letting her

young

English

an

"

KAUFFMAN

perfect example

beautiful

becomes

which

she

the most

is very

old

The

in

ANGELICA

beautiftd

Apollo

the

rate

is

spent

two

To-day
Evidently

to
files
pro-

vedere
Bel-

certain,

"

evenings
Tischbein
our

poet

GOETHE

"

him

find

setting

beautiful

(now

letters

stand

Emma)

lover,

when

William

Letters

for

like

without

came

to

in

as

had

graceful

he

imder-

to

his

himself

of the
his

written

young

imcle. Sir

might

been

never

few

maid
nursery-

plaything.

by

back, that

pages

Angelica;
model

young

who
a

woman

Milanese
at

1787.

just

Angelica's

"

Hamilton

of
married

270

he

whom

Roman

formed

twenty,
Castel
blue

her

the

"

1791.

The

though
Riggi,

whom

he

eyes

met

Gondolfo,
and

tremendously
in

to

owe

Maddalena

which

and

Elegies.

greatly,

had

Maddalena
both

manner,

turned

these, as

importance

in

critics,we

was

"

of

women

brief, relation

counted

also

sentiment,

second
with

the

three

Chief

some

of

colouring

staying

October,

to

instead

years,

opinion of

woman,

beautiful
while

rank

were

the

sensual

chiefly

her

that

close, if comparatively

whom,

third

five

was

me,

Faustina,

very

warm

order

pitiful

Greville, her

to

glorify Italy for Goethe.

to

seems

in

own

those

said,

was

sent

wishes

of

He,

the

see

this

soul.

served
it

she

soul.

to

who

one

heartlessly sold

of his

one

who,

It

which
he

privileged

that

opinion

without

was

any

later, however,

his

as

"

to

open

Hamilton,^

marry

it down

for

thing

months

two

been

not

FRIENDS

lovely Emma

entertainer

had

course,

WOMAN

the

admiration;

wondering
we

HIS

of

body

the

found

AND

in
a

at-

GOETHE

world,
teach

AND

I can't

but

write

for fear

even

teach

them

to

"

quite

he

Very

Italianische

the

of her

as

Goethe

which

and

would

As

so

it

painter
the

not

of

"

believe,

to

for

knowledge
woman

was

the
death

own

we

which

from

famous

live

in

to

see

glowing

there

was

the

relations

Society, and
272

on

description

to

fifteen
been

which

of

confidant
is

reason

which

several
the

She

print, in

there

were

light

have

etcher,

circle.

correspondence

have

Rome,

Angelica's

Goethe's

thrown

her

the

this episode, and

in

Goethe,

Goethe

English,

departure

girl. Angelica

is, however,
to

did

Reise,

her

on

that

to

have

perhaps

because

belonged

that

before

of

and

course,

credit
to

son

throughout

burned

of

woman

the

young

believe

to

the

ally
gener-

deprivation

the Milanese

pleases

women

Goethe,

Goethe's

married
who

it

that

beautiful.

1825, and

in

as

after

soon

Volpato,
died

help

to

us

they wouldn't

of their

him

do

teach

to

to

want

not

prayer-book."

teach

to

to

very

Maddalena

with

conscious

thirsted

and

young

love-letters

interested

wanted

she

which

like

if it weren't

I will

much,

as

because

by

be

to

began

promptly

do

oiitburst, long before

feminine

rights," hugely

he

Men

don't

They

occupied

begun

FRIENDS

them.

read

to

us

WOMAN

will write

we

us

see

had

read

things.

women

This

HIS

letters

Riggi

the poet
letters

she

matter

also.
from

the

lately published
prove

only

too

VULPIUS.

CHRISTIANE

See
Goethe.

by
drawing

p.

From
291.

ITALY

IN

clearly that,
a

his

coloured

memory

thought

wrote

to

already
"

thanked

Now

few

from
well

of

that

he

Goethe

therefore

are

after
"

left Rome

had

he

he

gone

Friend,

heart

departure

rather

had

Dearest
my

started, and

you

her

keep

was

"

soul

and

of the

one

for which

you

I have

you.

I looked
that

written, else

for your

heart

my

for with

I had

I felt consoled

that

has

from

you

I dreamed

ago

and

you,

years."

life,only for the dear lines

Florence, which

nights

for

efforts to

him,

of your

again I thank

letter from

time, and

penetrated

of my

before

me

this

1788,

lo,

has

you

sorrowftil

most

at

Immediately

grief; the day

with

mind

behind

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on

from

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her

in his heart, after

green

have

to

seems

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was

admiration

of

junior.

her

was

of hers

to

it nevertheless

years

wrote,

"

says,

...

painful reading.
she

love

this

Gerard

its associations

and

least,the attachment

Though

forty-seven

was

eight

was

Frances

every

Angelica

side at
"

genius,

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

one.

due,"

for

her

on

deep

very

half

WITH

I would

longing.

received
and

letters
'

said,

It is

have

soon

died

grief.'
"

Heaven
life

"

all and

content

am

continue
and

because

everyone

to
to

keep

you

I cannot
is indifferent

friend, RMffenstein,with

'^

that

know

whom
273

you

thus.

what

see

to

me,

are

well;

I live such

I most

except

speak of

may
a

sad

desire,
our

you.

good
The

GOETHE

which

Sundays,
the

AND

saddest

once

days,

but

more,

'

sound

another

sorrowful
of yours

have

little

Your

pine

I destined

for

of which

I have

thousand
"

thing

One
before

it
to

good

help

made

in

me

I could

that

however,
I know
would

long time

how

not

take

long time

before

consequently

I should

himself

of this:

Goethe

Gardens

grew

But, alas!

and

flourished

after the death

into

possession who

and

late visitors

existence

writes

to

"

This

for many

of my

considered
Rome

be

have

muchthe

pine

have

made

said

remains."

274

the

glad

know

me

sure

and

proofs
of

cess,
suc-

de-

the Botanical

in Angelica's

garden.

people entered

friend,new

news

it is,

if the

from

to

for

you

etching,

pine cutting

brought

it

to

copper;

done

detrimental

be

design

be

valued

it to,

the

I could

years

am

injury.

to

send

succeed, and

might

figure

it would

the

on

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since

it

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it

engrave

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to

in

also

recollect

myself

any

have

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meet

care;

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the

alteration

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larger.

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thing
some-

garden and

opportunity

pities if it should

have

this

for

mine,

you,

not

say

great

more

was

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return

I have

in my

now

title-page [of Egmont],

the

'

for

Schutz

'

will

bestowed

you

stands

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words

know

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spoken

will

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you.

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which

plant. ^

dearest

my

Now

become

have

he

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this ; the

hard.

word.

tree

to

seem

believe

upon

FRIENDS

days of joy,

they

"

too

thank

to

WOMAN

were

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HIS

their

that

no

flower-beds;
trace

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ITALY

IN

will

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Lips

Herr
"

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continue

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that

myself
keep

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times,

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both
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love

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how

power

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joy

you

him!
as

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be

imagination.
275

you
your

her

thousand

letter

from

have

Abbate

Spina;
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Kayser;

he

evidently prefers
if I

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help doing

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and

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Angelica."

and
can

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your

well,
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and
I
RJ^ffenstein,

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society. Ah!

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Rath

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friend, for

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made

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on

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handed

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and

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tion
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you

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"

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thanks

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to

directions.

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me

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.

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dear

my

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to-day should
I shall wait

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to

desires
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will

your

KAUFFMAN

will have

you

you

for

heartily

finished

to you.

Florence

things that

be

sent

or

ANGELICA

WITH

in his

were

that

in

shadow,
So

strong,

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known

the

place!

spirit I
but

has

am

let the
it

yet
your

GOETHE

I would

address
will

find

but

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AND

HIS

have

written

leave

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to

say

much

to

can

were

better

heart

can

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in

outer

other

hope

'

Rome,

was

that

for

hear

he

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your

me!

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feeling

and

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lovely

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which

world

we

rouse

in

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me

"

the

on

often

hope

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scenery,

nothing

really believe
of

day

fatal

talked.

it will

be

more

to

never

happier life above.

are

you

you
as

near

28th,

when

are

comfortably
interests
to

my

lodged
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me.

heart

as

evening, the
on

heart

silent;

fri^ids meet

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well-being

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I look

my

to

excites

everything about

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"

all dear

to

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all.

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health

in art

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part, and

wish

of
use

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out

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to

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remained

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confused.

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complains.

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grow

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and

suffers

in my

pen

Florence.

at

last without
has

of you

I think

FRIENDS

you

your

your

what

forget, however,
When

to

answer

my

WOMAN

April

23,

left the

1788, just eighteen months

city

"

forever.

276

came

home,

after he had

entered

GOETHE

AND

HIS

WOMAN

"

fortnight later (June 7) :

mind

my

the

letter, and

this

line from

you

kind

promise?

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Milan

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no

you

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as

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well

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met

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! The

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to

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of Herr

Dearest

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Rath,

to

also the

which

and

send

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other

last
that

it to

furnished

this

and

in my

you

I expect

friend, pardon
278

Zucchi

hands,

own

opportunity

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the

you.

and

me

address

thrice

wish

sincerest

to

that

hope

shall

therefore

you

presence

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trust

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your

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happy

on]

recovery.

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with

this

been

permission

me

do

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blessed

only consolation
me

has

Monday;

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whom

carried

who

perfect

gave

you

friends.
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of

next

Weimar,

who

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it may

yesterday's post, but

hope

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those

have

his housekeeper,

longer;

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forgotten

anxiety;

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to

by

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him

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through

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me

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ITALY

IN

for the
I

is the

rest

made

was

had

Goethe
Rome

May

25,

The

than

is

right

and
"

changes of

break
in

pieces

order

Yet

time

that

Angelica

was

he

while

arrived

at

visited

at

"

what

inn

who

sentimental

devotion.

his

senior

creditable
was

dross

with

buy

to

and

be

June

death."

of

and

must,

for

had

four

her

this

with

things about

his

with

is mixed

up

women.

Barbara
279

is

many

for

he

there

had

being

friend, Barbara
him

to

Zurich
of

one

whole
about

bask

to

was

simple

only,

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another

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clung

years

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by

postscript just

Zurich

his

by

and

and

journey,

presence.
4

seven

hammer

June

he

following day

bitterness

her

just friendship, having

which

the

on

more

least

at

by permitting

friendship
by

me

characteristically making

Schulthess,

Goethe's

cost

years;

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of his

away

"

the

writing

Constance
the

has

my

must

sunshine

"

wrote,

of his homeward

away

happy

in the

Rome

rock

he

Milan

going

the

was

woman-friend

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hour."

was

drive

knew

quoted,

he

Sunday

break

to

experiencing

every

from

to

he

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that

all easy

fitting for

was

mood

declared

he

and

which

..."

from

parting

with

will be

it at

Angelica.

he

that

of yours

two

To-morrow

found

not

from

added

to

answer

longed-for day!

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

happy.

such

once

WITH

woman,

the

nothing
of his

Schulthess

most

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career.

it

with

was

of

other
one

it
the
lations
re-

of

GOETHE

Lavater's

by

AND

parishioners
worthy

her

with

the

her

makers

her

first

the

early

by

then

Goethe

first wrote

acquaintance,
from

and

person

so

the

pleasure she
noblest
came

Zurich

her

well the

know

to

the

sixth

to

him:

"

thoughts

his

her

von

of

Beautiful
dear

Thanks,
280

from

when

Soul

all
over

to

the

reading his

Goethe
Meister
"

she

wrote

him

Klettenberg

Wilhelm

she

young

happiness

about

derive

to

she

"

call her

to

later,when

time,

had

love, and

book

of

first

had

two

to

Zurich,

for Lili, and

years

comparing

Praulein
and

actual

her
in

in aU

he

and,

peculiar appeal of that

wont

books.

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fiirst letter.

came

of his love

for the

and

home,

make

he

share

her

return

his

in

ognomist
physi-

Schulthess

he

as

that, twenty

they
was

Confessions

wrote

told

Goethe,

talk

good

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intimate

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it to

about

"

to his heart

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met

from

her

to

Ems

at

The

visitiag Lavater

on

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plans.

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to

knew

companion.

his

did

1775,

Goethe
was

letters

began

relationship

Lavater.

to

dispatched

"

Lavater, had

to

with

messages

time

which

he

when

"

praises to

Jime,

she

close

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afterward,
until

into

children

several
ere

getting

her

postscript

not

had

literature.

of 1774

summer

sotmded

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had

pastor,

reputation,

warmly

soon

and

of German

was

sent

FRIENDS

WOMAN

merchant-husband

through

come,

HIS

she

friend, for

she
sent

with

also
to

its

promptly
your

gift;

the

IN

ITALY

last

book

memories

deeply
It

of

WITH

of

though

"

that

winter, the

I did not

Wilhelm

first

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into

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her

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"It

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again

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works

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from

Rome,
oflE the

sooner

write

first

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at

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among

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us

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pro-

day."

own

kept

it

deposited

was

were

side,"

under

of the

Thus

no

find

can

cherished.

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was

German

one

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to her

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singularly

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way

her

causing

simple loyal Swiss

innocently,

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if old

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copy

door,

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plan, and

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und

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press

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her

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and

facts

made

of

been

friendship endured.

their

as

few

Goethe

of his

confidants

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thus

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note

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her

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woman-friend.

be

commentators
reticent

the

any

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of

to

came

to

me

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quite wish

version

Meister

brought

I honoured

interesting just here

is

KAUFFMAN

Wilhelm

your

soul

ANGELICA

so

speak,

to

knew

woman

writing

just

as

281

him

she

of

Goethe's

nothing.
to

always

tell her
told

life

Quite
of

him

his

of

GOETHE

hers.

AND

Her

1778,

kind

and

of her

some

had

passed

her

letters.

never

in

devoted

all of which
would

least

understood.

which

whom

he

she

finallycaused

the

pure

relation," as

(July

had

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have

Zurich

in the

grown

have

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in

once

Nathaniel
in

Dance

manner

admire

them

to

fall away.

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1797

called

it

of the

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the

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beautishort

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beauti-

most

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heartaches

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box

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this

occasion, finding

her

waist, she

an

is said

Smith,

actually

to

in his

seen

her

Lane, plajring with

young

Swiss

while

282

artist, Fuseli,

of scandalous.
of each

arm

contrived,

GoetTie's

Drury

short

nothing

and

youth,

his..S.oman

of

Angelica

keen.

very

great flirt in her

private

with

of its tenderness

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now

and

foUow,

not

life of this greatest of Germans.

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of these

intellectual

1797), imperceptibly

ideality it will always remain

episodes

face

"

to

of

summer

Babe

25,

thing of the past.

withdrawal

greatly

between

in the

she

kind

definitelybroken

had

bond

by late

before

could

continued

that

in

in the

Barbara

in

Goethe

to

of his immense

because

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time

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others

and

reply

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development

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married

in

died

had

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he

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husband

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partly because

very

FRIENDS

WOMAN

daughters had

away,

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For

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own

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folded
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ITALY

WITH

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her

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lovers

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flight

suffered

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on,

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she

letters

for

of both

man

by what

it

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desperate longing

had

which

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ever

for

box

hand

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like

liberally punished
Goethe

front

squeeze

considered

story

Smith's

of

the

on

leaning, to

was

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

witness:

was

after

be

to

on

full

"

"

August

Rome,
"

Dreaming

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But

"

seized

both

heart

so

for I have

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with
are

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in

spiritoften
you

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so

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my

dream

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written

July

acquaintances
in

of

is

me

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should

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ness
happicontent,

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19.

around

proof

closely to

not

you,

you

surprise me

wish

content.

you

For

unbroken

an

me,
283

I live

course

the

goodness

of your

infinitelygrateful. I rejoice that

am

in

occupations,

and

this does

Rome,

saw

door,

entrance

pressed

distractions

many

and

in

letter

dear

your

to

back.

come

that, in consequence,

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friends

pain

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my

had

you

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that

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that

me.

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hands,
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myself

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1788.

5,

of

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ness
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in

GOETHE

better

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and

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hope

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know

Catherine
I want

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of

284

good

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Duke,

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myself;
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no

"

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of the
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in

me

effigy alone, but

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letters

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gallery in Florence,

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placed

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in

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acceptance

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promised

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they have

that

beside

with

fear

Soon
.

past.

it would

accepted.

of his kind
me

we

but

"

yet done

dear

of that.

Michaelangelo
near

the

shall

at.

my

and

Sunday,

see

between

possible.

as

shall

complaints?

working

as

hope

my

am

good

Ah!

painting, which
has

are

I have
as

than

subject for

of Russia.
to

to

use

the

those

When
.

Lord, by Daniel

continuously

fear

Catholic].

only

seeing it,

live

what

imagine

must

what

consider

must

of

alas, more

"

to

devout

remains

it together?

want

FRIENDS

of Our

see

be

WOMAN

picture [The Burial

Volterra]
it who

HIS

sent

neighbourhood,

nie

have

the

should

GOETHE

'

the

that

AND

'

Muse

HIS

has

that

consider

you

unutterable
"

usual

my

with

Herder.

man,

do

will

already,
honour

the

at

come

It will

Castel
will

those

to

best

the

dear

past" and
in

with

me,

such

everywhere.

you
there

this

October.

as

year,
You

I will try to

hope

the

day

coincidence
that

day

shoxild

which

shall

makes
with

best; it

you

me

little

my

ever

be

happy.

again!
286

of

me

Tis

have

few

short
a

the

make

at
to

tour

I live

Sunday,

and

in

future.

present
you

time
me,

see

days

offering which

May

is

what

I will

hope of

sacred

at

ment
hope for enjoy-

arrived

have

use

sketched

you

make

may

of

together

were

the

with

me

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kindly accepted

to

to

neighbourhood.

only spend

intend

we

be

imagination

my

shall

console

less tmbearable.

on

can

You

friends

where

memory

We

cellent
ex-

I wish
to

your

we

place

In

month.

much

the

enjoy

remind

present?

this

see

Duchess-mother

that

all will
a

to

Hke, and

when

Every

to

the

to

at

drawing-room

of the

you

season

Gondolfo.

be

end

rejoicesme

time

home

friend, how

whom

it

be

soon

The

dear

my

and

true

my

came

joy

me

the

at

in the

Bury

if I can;

to them

proof of

friend.

arrive

that

pleasure, and

you

when

It gave

your

and

you

you.

I found

hour,

[Amalia]

small

for

given

19th this month,

Herr

know

as

esteem

the

On

has
it

FRIENDS

last reached

at

little remembrance

my

WOMAN

"

to

so

and
this

keep

instead

IN

ITALY

WITH

of going to fetch
lines
"

with

the

I have

he

man

which

Consequently
such

has

and

in

moments

the

produced

single

the

signs

of

plant under

young

all the

injured;

with

which

Farewell,

"

hear

completion,
nothing

to

read

to

us

fear,

come

has

Tasso
as

also

advanced

the

your

manuscript;

again;

the

very

sadness."
287

meant.

To
Z.

towards
you

time

when

thought

know

K.

far

days

be

disorder

of which

happy
those

the

A.

very

work

another

I remember

me.

wish.

dearest

place

Pardon,

not.

me

are

might

it is well

know

friend, forget

is my

live content

you

dear

my

and

fate.

friend, the length of this letter, and

not

there

it

fear

anxiety

my

dear

You

for

not

"

and

their

to

him.

I have

garden

for

pay

garden

year

over

the

am

many

clouds

cover

it is written.

spend

grows

laugh

I leave

rest

this

pine

to

The
.

into

run

paid

it.

with

him

infinitely

you

at

would

is darkened

storm.

had

you

thank

dear

You

it.

sky

said

wonderful

The

showed

I wanted

When

day looking

worthy

much.

precious present.

monstrum.

when

friend

your

to

nothing

transplanted

the

have

what
We

writes.

debt, he

dear

he

as

few

these

you

you.

again;

Hkeness.

my

to

I stole from

pleases

the

Trieppel

writing

am

Herder

speaks

with

content

Herr

Herr

is, and

bust,

your

you,

little pen

seen

KAUFFMAN

ANGELICA

wiU

fills

me

said
you
never,

with

GOETHE

Amalia

Anna
a

as

she

know,

"

poet,

dreamt

such

in

since

have

it has

often

so

beautiful

most

this

before
Rome.

That

gracious

to

Duchess

I have

This

often

thank

to

see

speak of

she

aUows

and

you,

then

fly

hope that
see

may

shown
you,

me

even

in

you

herself
dear

my

to

what

so

there?

you

gracious princess honours

visit constantly, and

We

has

you,

thoughts

we

the

Weimar,

knowing

of

still I

off

you

pany
accom-

it and

And

writes

manner,

to

me

my

see

comes

the

me,

friend.

best

dream

journey

cordial

joy

you

Have

Blessed

where

really

Do

excellency

and
.

from

joyfully

most

the

me

"

tone.

her.

envied,

constantly, shall
Oh,

given

letters

Her

Zucchi

to

came

Weimar?

to

which

soon

artist

the

follow

to

or

the

thing?

invited,

back

happier

coming

am

R^enstein,

Rath
her

much

friend,"

of

has

duchess

^good

on

that

and

this,

Inasmuch

years.

friend, also, the

dear

my

after

soon

two

Goethe

warm

take

now

FRIENDS

Rome,

nearly

greatly admired

Rome

ever

WOMAN

in

lasted

Angelica's

the

HIS

arrived

stay which

for

be

AND

and
with

me

to

go

so

her.

fills my

joy

soul!
"

few

attended

museum,

and

I had

quite

evenings

something

the

her

by

honour

festival

for

wanting

her

ago

excellency visited

whole

suite.

Zucchi
.

of

accompanying

to

make
288

me

them.

Nevertheless,

me.

the

It

there

perfectly

was

was

content.

IN

Your

ITALY

name

WITH

When

that
Herder

said

prayer

to

Rome.

it must

much
the

in

it to

It is

me.

meanwhile

for

with

as
"

will

think

to

happy
think

rejoicing

am

you

May

Apollo

I thank

purpose.

of

you

Zucchi

me.
.

alas ! that

over

still read

may

is not

of

so

long

the

same

prosecute
and

of

me.

situation, and
work.

and

May

if you

Farewell, best

have

glad

am

...

your

content,

Stindays which

I live.

as

present

your

dear

that

several

of the

Duchess'

are

appreciative

references

sat

twice,"

of

one

idle moment,

of friends.

picture promises

to

be

letters to
to
runs,

to

splendid

success.

289

A.

K."

Goethe

Angelica.
"

them

that

live always

you
an

have

you

"

In

granted !
I hear

for mucSi.

the

time;

happy

the

Ah,

time

but

be

to

you

you.

like

you

thought

talk of you,

My

may

that

me,

good

having

something.

...

Tasso.

this

Hen-

Weimar.

to

consolation
in

you

I often

posed
pro-

god.

inspire

wish

spirit.

one

the

would

he
my

given

have

you

strengthen

and

of your

some

to

for

Muses,
in

you

Apollo,

ask

I go

before

praise

hope

that

of the

saw

prayer

that

O
be

each

was

hall

only

the

offer

should

we

Apollo

to

But

before

should

we

and

me

all stood

we

come

about

KAUFFMAN

in the

repeated

was

I looked

but

ANGELICA

"

there
I

her, and
The

have
the

last

GOETHE

time

AND

Herder

Angelica

read

was

her

But
end

writing

to

good.

"

been

in

of
to

long

time

you

for

thank

sent

would

say

I wrote

to

honour

and

the

enjoy
happy.

artists, or
been

my

Goethe

might

renew

of her

presented

her

that

I do

you,

and

I Hve?

My

good

that

with

write

as

far

well.

you

make

amends

continue
is much

with

is often

her

native

misspelled.

290

as

The
than

edge,
all knowlto

make

you

of art,

for

splendidly bound

Continue
can

you

useful

more

cultivate

to

and

are?

you

whom

ever

industry

is ilot for-

friend

works

your

language."

had

silence

my

edition

of

or

It

agreeable subject.

have

write

Silence

that

way

could

to

to

does

every

I have

I feared

shall

industrious

so

for

and

to

because

forget

acquaintance

letters to him

"

an

Angelica

left Rome

of

But

often.

other

any

intention

her

to

to

come

find

we

have

does
in

to

intending

delayed

It is

wish
of

good

solitarylife again.

writing itself are

yourself

had

could

as

is

who

seemed

adds,

she

been

handiwork.

mere

portrait

1789,

my

too

long

and

research

the

eight volumes

as

who

usual, but

resvmie

How

so

me,"

me.

much

as

and

pleasant companionship

the

you

honour

that

May,

I have

which

getfulness.

poems,

your

his friends

to

dream

of

that

seems

just awakened
For

last

Goethe
It

us

FRIENDS

pleasant interlude

the

and, by

WOMAN

fingers."

this

even

for

inspired

so

under

grow

HIS

"

that
The

she
man
Ger-

ITALY

IN

by

long letter,but

makes

feel

me

live in

to

ANGELICA

WITH

the

your

will

of my

can

as

memory

remembrance

your

absence

sad, that

so

KAUFFMAN

only

say

that

do

in

mine,

you

and

always

forever
"

On

have

desert

left her

surrounded

by
I

thoughts
and

rest

much

as

until

unnoticed
well

always

of

happiness
Once
.

and
a

that

better

grant

Goethe's

her

silence

due

course,
come

upon

which

battle

he

of

and

live

to

are

my

myself
slip away

may

be

you

sometimes

me

is in fuU

the

growth.

to

you,

my

always, with

as

aloofness

to

the

fact

that

into

his

life.

He

Italy less

from

but

great

A."

esteem,

now

statues

disturb

myself

remain,

friend, and

"

coming
be-

friends

new

May

pine

recommend

Z."

occupy

hours

honoured

to

comes.

The

dear.

is fast

they

"

the

where

better; these

I try

and

lines.
I

more

on

time

happy,
few

is

heart.

my

possible, so

as

admits,

hope

K.

Paintings and

she

dwell

Rome

be

A.

all her

friends

not

sadden

"

at,"

true

must

that

alone.

look

to

writes

her, because

to

there

beautifvil

are

first she

August

friends

good

the

than

their

Christiane

of

when

he

publicly immediately
son

being
291

then

has

home
with

entered

conscience

of

are,

Vulpius

had, indeed, been

month

marriage

ratified

Jena,

all this time

(Ehestand)
after

seventeen

the

years

GOETHE

old.

he

love.

new

coming

is

he

forced

upon

seize
his

eagerly

this

he

who,

only

Angelica
in

on

later,
the

city

letter

he

Olympian
to

until

and

in

where
sent

he

the outside

longing

they

had

her

that

had

been

The

hope

Rome

most

is

Professor

is the

she lived

happy

shows

years
to

more,

together.
him

the
at

"

calm

least

world;

had

friend, of seeing
this

City!

once

came,

he

Venice

Holy

definitelybecome

"

"

that

time, could

Easter

so

year

now

makes

nearly twenty

"

alrhost

he

1797

and

he

again, though

death,

must

Rome

than

be in the

to

What
he

journey

further

at

Goethe

her

that

the

before

year

cares."

of which

proceed

to

saw

never

Rome
"

his

restrain

hardly

Instead

AmaKa
conviction

revisit

to

undertaking

asked

be

"

think

to

opportunity

of

is the

longer

than

though

Duchess

the

Rome,

no

there?

friends

not

he

her

learns, that,

she

conduct

to

that

for

should
"

her

condition

when

nothing

known

have

to

revisit

not

natural

dear

it

Italy

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

appears

Only

will

home,

more

HIS

Angelica

But

of his

AND

in the
at

war,

completely barred,
Meyer,

groundwork

25

entertained,

you

miserable

Weimar,

whose
for

coming
an

at

continued
hie

June, 1797.

year

end,

as

is,through
the

least for the

residence

still to cherish
292

honoured

most

the

way

to

present.
in Rome

hope of

GOETHE

the

amidst

seen

AND

only suited

are

It is not

the

which
Such
"

to

beast

Dessau

painting

is

FRIENDS

the

icy north,

or

the

impair

kindly

answer

these

The

cotmtry.

kept is,for

rest, in

its

personage

much

in the
to

each

formal

another

between
to

do

in

garden.

beauty.

either

yourself

or

others.

purposes,

known,

words

Luiseum

"

Thus,

which

diill htintsman.

that

you

cannot

Farewell, and

through

wild

background

of

to remind

the

to

WOMAN

snowflakes

necessary

apply

not

HIS

ends

these

request from
for

one

biographical

Goethe."

distinguished
data

all communication,
two

other.

294

who

had

so

once

for

licity
pub-

far

as

meant

is
so

XI

CHAPTER

CHRISTIANE

And

we

now

did

Goethe
that

marry

is

hers

Stein
a

certain

and

of

have

Christiana

Goethe's

relation
in

severe

their

reviewer

English

intemperate
Goethe

by

fate

"

an

as

matters

and
of

act

punishment
of

love."
295

as

ion
opinBut

Goethe's

of

the

the

for
The

ingly
exceed-

are

One

"a

fat
her

pronounces

poetic

acter
char-

woman.

her

dubs

flaw

youthful
in

and

riage
mar-

tered
adminis-

justice

his

his

psychology

all

of

of

the

to

as

no

riage;
mar-

two

any

upon

judgment

"

Frau

inasmuch

Almost

unfeelingly

the

to

episodes.

or

her.

termagant

to

in

to

with

contemporary

either

plain
ex-

tive
attrac-

broke

discover

Vulpius

To

found

simple

agreed

enough,

relations

his

approved

are

woman

tell.

he

these

to

one

to

he

of

yet

who

biographers

of

of

all

all

reason

consensus

writer

contemporary

of

the

the

curiously

what

truth

almost

upon

of

comparatively

was

is

find,

to

Frederika,

the

of

story

story

Buff,

and

Lili

lovely

there

hardest

Charlotte

in

only

"

left

he

why

von

the

the

to

come

this

nesses
weakinter-

GOETHE

AND

HIS

WOMAN

pretation lies, oif course,

himself

Goethe

who

the

always

that, too, when

his

for

eighteen

over

step is

of the
Duntzer

and

ceremony
as

Goethe's

bits

of

sent

by

(2)

Goethe

him

not

lady had

only

married,
was

In

it Goethe

not
"

Yet

the

and

kne:w

one

no

married

he

was

he

edited

he

discreetly

not

of

(in 1824)

his

"

cut

two

certain

letter

1796, and

13,

question put
Schiller's

he

The

weeks

until

October

after

Ehestand."
296

this

is

state
seven

Goethe

reference

was

to

retort.
see

to

markable
re-

just eight
years

old."

himself

that

19, 1806, and

correspondence
this

did

letter referred

I, too, live

than

to

friend

replied gravely, that

better

out

Christiane

he

Revolution

his

riage
mar-

quotes

Goethe

marriage

French

the

why

To-day

my

he

of

asked

many

says:

epoch;
years

to

ceremonially.

not

written

to

had

he

and

marry

made

once

blandly ignoring

of

July

on

Stock, sister-in-law

The

Komer.

Schiller

poet

Dora

by

of this

history: (i)

to

the

speaks

defence

contemporary

reply

In

by

one.

preceded

uniformly

wife.

this

been

tion
explana-

any

knot

which

gant,"
terma-

already

than

Gordian

illicit relation

the

had

riage,
mar-

"

this

to

was

ment."
"punishfrom

Almost

tenable

the

cuts

she

years.

more

the

fast

it

that

shrunk

so

deliberately tied himself

and

fact

administered

had

He, 'who

in

FRIENDS

with
the

when

Schiller
sary
anniver-

CHRISTIANE

None

of

unkind

the

of

explanation

Italy partly,

he

returned
had

received

be

his

and

grew

clever

into
a

love;

real bond.

year

made

up

Six

her

that
to

friend

complained,
"

believe,

passed

him

as

Goethe

stranger."

had

parted

to

from

me

stimmer

for

of

him

fancy

soon

too

was

the

lost

Goethe's

fault

with

bitterly
girl who

recorded

all that
297

go

this

that

more

return,

first

need, that

Stein

see

young

to

been

Yet

to

tragedy of

Weimar
has

passing

she

Goethe's

after
left

the

for

the

careful

so

von

plaints
com-

And

path.

hated

the

of

his every

not

that
she

course

querulous

to

only

had

she

tinderstanding

Charlotte

herself

in

of

weeks

chapter,

woman,

and

each

been

have

might

chiefly

was

perfect in

so

much

continued

have

attractive,

very

imselfishly responsive

so

what

so

his

crossed

him,

so

If

arms

to

ing
loosen-

upon

be.

her

science
con-

gone

nearly

would

it was,

had

had

not

was

he

As

who

proved

comfort,

he

straight into the

him

maiden

attractive

Stein

The

guilty

object of

kindly they might

him

drove

the

von

thought

friends.

warm

maiden

Frau

Stein,

von

Goethe

rate, with

uniformly

so

think, in

jealousy.

any

which

he

as

then
to

hold

when

cured

at

lies,as
in

as

were

Charlotte

as

this

well

as

but

ladies

Christiane

to

the

Weimar

lavishly

loss.

her

when
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in
as

his

time
long-

estate,
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fect
per-

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GOETHE

AND

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the

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her.

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than

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result

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father
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to

marry,

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maiden

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famous
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money

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lover's

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thing,"

low-bom

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writers

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scarcely

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father, like

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died, while

Goethe

more

legal profession and

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his

to

of rank

himself.
of

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was

very

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day.

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birth

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deep

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Goethe,

mother

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cook

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elder

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meanwhile,

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had

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von

together.

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heart

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first talk

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with

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company,

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took

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and

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journey
the

entire

to

Charlotte

whom

went

5, he

without

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talkative, scarcely spoke

Sunday

side.

remarked

poet

he

as

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von

during

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her

never

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rain,"

from

friends

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him

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visit

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^

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returns

meagre

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proved
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She
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sister

stop Goethe

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recently

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There

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quite

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glad

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fiower-shop

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Christiane, having

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to

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GOETHE

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in

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news

chiefly concerned
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day,
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trees

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love.

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following

to

the

that

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world,
by

no

at

person
one

among

be

there

mother

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to

to

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then

informed,

of

March,

learn

he

his

more.

for

person
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has

1789, that

this

the

Charlotte's

reached

of mutual

letters

death-blow

to

very

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300

to

of his

minimize

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own

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Karl

Goethe

beginning

intended

had

what

born.

was

son

ears.

tion
recrimina-

Charlotte's

on

godfather.

means

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home

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December

Goethe's

child's

the

was

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the

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birthday,

was

his

sought

course,

first

news

gave

told

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beginning

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soon

right

Ilm.

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of Goethe's

whose

had

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Stein.

von

she

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ears

four

him."

to

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at

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taken

come

much

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and

sweetheart,"

her

on

passed

her

women,

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Garden-House

came

understand.

most

Weimar

with

difficulty,

to

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young

Goethe

his

for

return

Frau

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his

love

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affection.

of his

in

in

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astonishingly long time

an

the

deeply

charm

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fell

FRIENDS

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day

the

WOMAN

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weeks

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announced

paternity,
the

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GOETHE

to

AND

and

grateful

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than

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would

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sweetness.

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her

course,

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satisfied

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was,

strenuous

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sympathy

urged

felt.

the

soaring youth,

in

strove

gratitude

make

FRIENDS

WOMAN

Christiane

dependents

these

him

HIS

he

with

approximated
had

long been

waiting.
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Aja

would

of

began

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the

"

Stein

to

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1797,

her

Frankfort

Goethe
for

visit.

shunned

circle

for

and

said

of

purchase
the

person,"
Weimar

him

gossips,
Goethe
at

once

at

was

of
he

at

sent

as

out

accepted!
302

some

son

however,

if he

could

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just

settle

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the

invitations

Though

in

his little

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to

and

of Goethe's

its bitterest

intended

early

when,

and

home.

country

the

Christiane

women

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criticism
recent

time

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heart.

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son's

her

had

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Christiane

no

in

lively correspondence

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grandchildren

her

bring

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frankly delighted

was

he

give
when
of

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which

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awkwardness

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his guests

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Amalia

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matters

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well

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of

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Christiane

though

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Dr.

the

on

of

Meyer

science

was

she

probably

of

had

model

Affinities.
303

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winter

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near

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during

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Meyer

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Meyer,

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become

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GOETHE

in

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mir

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304

Kind.

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to

have

Goethe,

to

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says

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devotion

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reaUy

things which

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after

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has

wives

Christiane's

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admirable,

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of

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however

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did.

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naturalness

adds

poet, and

matter

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to

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the

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much

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und

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lonely heart, and

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friend,

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he

father.

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to

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servant
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baking

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sent

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306

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1796,

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good-nature,

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across

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von

every

approval

be

depths

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gether
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mourn

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out

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dummy

agreeable habitude,"

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with

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her

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Louise

and

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WOMAN

Ulrich, her companion,

of Caroline

holding

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Goethe

by

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his

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kind
as

GOETHE

AND

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wondering
stairs.

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knock

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mortifying
across

her

house

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him

ears,

she

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certainty

FRIENDS

it took

her

door.

the

WOMAN

why

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at

the

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in

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moving

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into
felt
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poet

tears

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herself

experience

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anxiety.

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low-spirited

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convalescence

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and

showing

in various

ways

the

thirty

forth,

weeping

responsibilityfor

this

on

attack,

his

the

Charlotte

and

Christiane,

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find

we

Goethe

over

was

room

keenly

1801,

that

illness

was

poet, in his ravings, broke

very

this

Fritz

many

Charlotte

draw

together

Frankfort.

the

that

to

January,

repetition of

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days.

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years

as

her

shed

have

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part.

writing

Schiller

able

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that

little lad

he

and

mother.

think
first
his

it must

began

have

been

seriously

legal wife.

to

at

think

Certainly
308

this
of
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time

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the

making

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the

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p.

79.

GOETHE

spirits and

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am

this, though,
say,

to

as

is

he

that

never

letters

low-

very

Still, I

mention

must

these

in

bear.

to

reflected, also, her

of the

French

One

the

social

delicacies

is often

Don't

thought

there

he

much

that.

In

real

FRIENDS

be, for I know

write.

you

that

have

can

is like

WOMAN

because

as

he

HIS

deal

good

worry

AND

butter, herrings and

preys
lam-

Many

interpretation

ant

Nicolaus

bedroom

Surely though
of the

tried

and

his

she

there

following

be

Dear
that

know

which

me

in
any

hard

Friend,
it
has

isn't
caused

situation.

healthy

hours

friendship

it is

typical

April

perfectly

am

carelessness
not

me

The
since
310

sure

write.

Geheimrath
his

to

one

him.

spirit
:

[1805].
that

you

in

forgetfulness

or

to

12,

with

always

the

mistaking

no

and

"

tmpleas-

an

constantly

"Weimar,
"

put

portrait htmg

wrote

can

letter

to

Christiane's

upon

because

Meyer

her

in

have

biographers

fortieth

But
hasn't

am

had

birthday

CHRISTIANE

bad

but

many

fear

lest he

you're

that

Then,

the

burden

down

upon

me

can

what

enough,

tmbosom

to

me

here

lies

all that

people

to

this

though

there

on

and

myself

so

house

weighs
of

might

on

self
my-

whom

to

it isn't
go

these

it all to

but

suppose,

weak.

none

heart.

my

and

grave

friend

no

to

more

keep

is

tunate
unfor-

have

the

great

how

an

would

and

no

away

tell you

near

feel, I can't

For

more

keeping

of

longer.
say

that

while

far

so

if such

me

heavily, and

people suspect

for

is very

all the

are

people

I have

you

I needn't

as

Ernestine

grows

any

be

and

you

lost.

as

happened

alone.

him

And

it would

thing

Auntie

world.

of which

course

Except

good

as

terribly hard

stand

in the

will die.

all the

in

friend

attacks

tell it
for

easy

lonely

my

way.
"

Two

now

on

days
his

rath

I had

only

was

him

left

few

better
of

out
answer

or

of

the

this
Doctor

Fair

letter

of

care

good

address

at

me

that

say

and

foimd

is considerably

When

prospect.
of

wife, because
311

there

Stark, but

Dr.

care

little

been
to

he

is

Geheim-

once

I write

As

no

The

came

back

who

with

I had

messenger

the

Buchholz's

Frankfort

health, but

way.

see

August,

Erfurt.

as

journeyed

through
I

at

far

as

when

bad

bed, and

accompanied

good

in

ill.

very

to

hours

very

in

people,

of

company

he

way

ago

my

not

you

brother

I know

the

GOETHE

AND

doesn't

Geheimrath

is

there
when

for

me,

it will

letter

if this
I

me;

of

is

always

and

you;
I

am

I have

as

as

soon

as

possible

to

when

to

the

year

sick

Goethe
for

her

life

Your

for

him.

(on October
of

Weimar

how

show

before

had

Jena

rude
Brief

an

the
and

just

14, 1806), and

came

for

came

deep

to

bands

Nicolam

312

picture.

Friend,
V."

C.

Ernestine

Christiane

that

Then

comfort.
to

so

than

more

even

and

love

died,

aunt

into

been,

this letter both

following

ing
speak-

come

your

I may

our

"

The

pardon
sleeps

without

ever
"

And

for, though

passes

to

he

way

day's greeting

the

letter

be

as

any

wish

you,

his hands.

letter

morning,

every

give

Farewell.

day

no

the

bedside

my

beg

it should

as

if it is in

me

written,

room,

my

tell

address

comforting

else

or

"

fall into

his

at

to

not

case

case

But

written

not

me

This

have

not

is

and

you.

see

that

in

Write

can

you

this,

writing it

am

little.

him.
.

answer

you

his

don't

only here!

were

his

about

write

me

understand

for

help

no

FRIENDS

like to have

doctors

these

WOMAN

if you

God,

illness.
believe

HIS

and

turned

to

companionship
of

opporttmity

unselfish

was

her

had

its terrible

battle

the

neighbouring

town

of
Meyer,

drunken
p.

gs-

troopers

CHRISTIANE

and

groups

and

plunder.

of ruthless

of beautiful

of his

band

the

with

with

the

him

in

downstairs

that

Marshal

be

quartered

But

Riemer,

while

for

up

Marshal

him,

then

the

noisily demanded
and

gave

look

to

not

so

them
about

length

at

that

he

thrown

lost

to

give
herself

her
his

for

bed

to

lover

Goethe's

Goethe

their

their
would

let

of

all

in

they began

had

were

been
came

demanded

and

Christiane

bayonets

and

them

house,

the

Had

in

door

liking. They

room

bed.

waited

son,

comrades

tour

the

in, and

the

to

for

come

Riemer

own

his

between

yet

came

their

as

half-drunken

them

retired

wine, after which

and

easily satisfied

and, in their

not

admission.
food

to

deep sleep

of Goethe's

tutor

tirailleurs

two

and

had

Ney

went

quarters.

returned

meanwhile,

Goethe,

night.

servants'

the

the

proceeded

thereupon,

men,

pened
hap-

of

son

Goethe

should

troopers

it

officers in charge

arranged

was

Sixteen

poet.

French

But

house, and, after being fed, fell into

the

of

it

castle, where

and

Ney

throng, and

riotous

the

Turckheim,

of the

collection

satisfyingfare,

plunderers.

von

one

was

the

its

of

rapine

upon

with

its promise

to

Wilhelm

lovely LiU,

to

house,

things and

that

of the

Goethe's

especially

appealed

officers all bent

and

the

not

body

probability have

life.

Moreover,

all

the

time
313

that

the

enemy

were

GOETHE

in

quartered
their

AND

jokes,
have

to

insulting

therefore, he

days and

Tell

me.

proceed

to

earlier,

we

taken?

be

yourself?
of

the

who

as

soon

Give

the

having

jurisdiction

August

and
the

Germany's
Of
its

course

his tutor
former

how

What

to

steps have
the

the

place

ceremony

in

risty
sac-

the

to

answer

the

senger,
mes-

wedding
took

Garrison
the

over

dated

in

place

Thus

the

Gunther

Church,

City Church.

present.

were

rings

did
the

Only
tiane,
Chriswife

of

ever

in

poet.

Weimar

condemnation

trial with

father,

flower-worker, become

greatest

me,

or

marriage

sacristy of
no

for

as

possible, Sunday

take

19, with

and

Court

legally

of

hours

to

come

beg."

October
the

and
these

much

so

perform

like it to

possible,

fourteenth,

as

not

you

I should

has

sir and

married.

Could

Sunday,

done

reverend

1806,

17,

"During

of mine

these

tion
situa-

Preacher

Coiurt

has

through

be

may

in

recognize fully and

City Chiirch.
if

On

that,

her

October

ptupose

worthy,

me,

grossly

was

by keeping

Consistory:

to

lived

flash, Goethe

himself

On

of

butt

the

was

in

Gunther,

old

an

want

has

now

he

to

little friend

my

that

of

nights

ripeness.

now,

insults.

wrote

FRIENDS

that

mother

Coimcillor

Chief

and

so

such

to

WOMAN

Christiane

seen

boy's

his

liable

mine

house

the

coarse

seems

HIS

was

of

now

Goethe.
314

than

louder
But

he

quietly

set

GOETHE

AND

about

world

them

comfortable
abroad

HIS

he

as

Goethe

had

been

before

continxiing, also,

relations.

Most

Stein

von

grievously,
Christiane
"

No

had

result

of

the

could

not

was

even

"

"

mother.
in

saying

He

in drink.

in my

keeping

him

from

Christiane

Unhappily,
Her

father

had

had

found

her

to

refers

never

'

January

to, and

while

12,

is

of the

one

to

this

i8c\.

This

August

was

club

very

son

any

drank

to

find

we

"

to

teen
seven-

of his mother's

had

difficultyin

at

316

fond

the

of

her

of

Goethe's

his

wine.

years

simple

great joys of life.

during

staying

at

felt that

Fritz, ^

for many

among

side

dark

was

he

day.

happened

son,

own

was

only pleasures

drink

whom

suffered

indignant

she

of drink, and

died

had

wine."

much

too

Vulpius

properly

up

I have

house

own

Frau

the

honestly

Lately
in

the

of the

be

to

she

her

to

glasses of champagne
class, and

but

already accustomed,"

letter

his troubles

drown

is

social

while-

"

whom

to

son

and

political situation,

bring

to

one

after

friends

fail

Moreover,

free

as

own

disorders

the

profited by

of fate !

ttim

of Goethe's

her

her

woman

her

comment,

and

and

marriage

resented

ever

"

Christiane

be the

much

she

where
as

good

such

than

more

For

person."

have

to

be

to

his

people accepted

of affairs without

state

natural

continuing

Christiane

new

became

gradually

ones,

FRIENDS

WOMAN

she
folk

Goethe

domestic

re-

illness,
abeady referred

housev

/,yri;\.l"\

CHRISTIANE

lations

and

that

it

was

mind

as

we

qualities

in

Goethe's

Henriette

connection,

then

thoroughly;

and

and

it, and

returns

in

at

the

fine,

We

judge her after

her

were

defend

her

is done

to

be

does

not,

geniuses.
mother

is

like

Also,
now

an

his

it

Of

has

if

who

quarters

at

he

is

enormously

father'swife;
317

he

to

of

justice
in-

come

Heidelberg
"

the

glad
does

and

able

had

writes:

to

and

her

quantity

father, belong

the
thing
some-

He

lad, sensible, warm-hearted,

his

glad

anything

be

to

August,

Henriette

her

had

know

to

untold

family

liberal

deservings, and

mother,

good

glad

the

behaviour

was

betray

all

university

his

dear,

very
He

with

Her

are

went

and

and

irmer.

inheritance

her."

his

from

over

frank

her

to

she

like

grateful

being

others, for

to

all

outer

certain

occasion

an

the

of

in her.

mean

to

division

so

the

Her

us.

not

"

quite

was

is

and

she

of

"We

her:

feeling this, she

fullest confidence
common

of

wrote

ous,
gener-

administer

one

the

without

died
to

Schlosser,

was

her

met

stead,

women.

people,

mother

Goethe's

in

of

in

qualities,
She

say.

who

everyone

When

and

I dare

borne

other

fine

very

it than

be

with

interpretation

of

Frankfort,

estate,

friendships

defects,

about

more

however

must

many

her

friends

prejudice.

his

had

of her

kindly
made

It

follow

little

very

there.

Christiane

Yet

to

know

we

not

is

true"

order

of

that

his

seem

to

GOETHE

the

love
be

AND

things

same

he

being dry;

is

parents, and

his

is

Christiane's

not

her

own

live

to

had

have

Goethe's

grief

"

me!

leave
was

near,

side

he

in

his

.eyes,
room

he

he

"

followed

tried

she
in

an

in

agony

speaks several
1

the

vain
of

Moebius'

to

should
before
acterizes
char-

had

speak

nearly thirty

on

his

knees

thou

his

318

II,

p.

letters

244.

end

wife's
hand

opening

him,

of his loneliness
Goethe, Vol.

not

the
his

now

he
to

at
cry,

canst

to

when,
to

been

Christiane's

but

sponsible.
re-

for

last time

In

sorrow.

times

no!

Taking

brow,

which

despairing

the

no!

she

alcoholism."

she, who
wife

chiefly

doctor, seeing that

for

her

As

into

me!

for

Moebius

by

himself

sobbing.

caressed

are

that

health

of what

tender

the
him

glad

and

happiness

threw

When

to

was

only fifty and

agony,

leave

called

he

is

probably

was

broke

not

We

son

degeneration

terrible.

and

wilt

Thou

tall

one

was

and

aU.

us

epilepsy induced

lay dying
bedside

her

the

of

companion

his fond

towards

and

years

was

light-hearted,

and

handsome

behold

she

"

without

him."

her

when

as

years,

in

died, in great

she

her

many

certainly

business, yet

lively

inheritance

For

will

literattire,cHngs, childlike,

in him

see

bad

of

with

to

FRIENDS

father, and

confiding

pride

thing beautiful
did

in

charmed

thoroughly

his

as

extremely

pleasure

takes

and

WOMAN

citizen-man

honest

an

HIS

left

her
the

friends
that

his

CHRISTIANE

"

dear

18

6, he

make
to

tributes

Du

are

die

Der

'

"

In
The

heavy

Now

that

Naught

lines

zu

record

thou

clouds

to

joy

profits me

319

scheinen!

Lebens
'

beweinen."

zu

seekest

pierce!
has

but

gone

tears."

away

loss is
love
are

ful,
beauti-

written

because

meines

sun,

Life's

most

Sonne, vergebens,
Wolken

to

there

passion:

of

poems

Verlust

vain, O

the

striking

Gewinn

ihren

four

way

and

poetry

which,

more

diistem

ganze

1st

these

12,

great

goodness
his

June

only

my

but

lines

versuchst, O

Durch

In

on

The

of

all the

in

of his

any

face

memory,

death,

simplicity,

"

her

found

of her

than

the

me."

to

to

tljink,is

day

in

and

"

Seidler,

gradually

up

is still left

left him,

Louise

wrote

reckon

several

very

has

life endurable

that

the

"

little wife

of

on

their

tion
of affec-

XII

CHAPTER

Goethe's

of

elder

the

at

Weimar

saying

about

life

for

people

is

Germans

the

maker

of

music,

too

organized

In

one

of

Goethe's

the

Weimar
"

the

An

in

spirit

lovable

own

in

letters
into

she

on

authoritative

she

life

home

he
he

which

Duke's

carry

chiefly

she
did
it

of

the

all

the

ing
speak-

have

of

"

day.

her

trying
I

sorts

for

who
of

introduction,

responsible

write

was

says,

is

mother

all

was

personality

Court

the

Anna

mistress

as

by

especially

because

For

that

felt

and

"

acted
her

of

songs.

literally, though

life

and

pranks."

people's

"

the

Goethe's

necessarily

Germans

early

the

Weimar

by

With

times

good

in

elements

of

himself,

reminded

metaphorically.

fused

dissonant

the

the

amusements,

and

revels

but

am

the

of

Not

songs.

whom

love

write

who

Amalia,

with
I

up,

great

Anna

of

career

bound

the

beloved

duchesses

duchesses

two

those

is

Amalia
of

the

considering

In

two

fit

to

very

and

jokes
this,

lustige

to

Zeit

Weimar!
There

has

never

been,

before
320

or

since', in

any

Ger-

"

GOETHE'S

Court,

man

such

for

and

such

whatever

at

this

never

her

seem

time

sensible

of her

life,she

trying

devoted

the

education

to

had

just

to

come

of her
she

that

Lilce

gay

many

Goethe

to

came

little outline
there

that

calculated

and

no

'

in her

fostered

and

Das

it helps

she

life,free

that,

only

"

entirely

regency

and

of

to

her

found

now

have

some

fore,
her, therebrain

the

to

condoned

often
the

up

called

"

genial

to

"

light-heartedpranks

Vorgoethische Weimar,

p.

146
321

et

down

which

learn

we

but

irresponsibly
Gedanken,

these

in his book^

fail

can

before

years

early womanhood,

quotes

them

hastily,
was

reading

Bode

serious

written

anything

her

looks

few

had

in her

much,

had

Amalia

of genius.
^

town.

recall

to

will blame

she

life, in

her

Wilhelm

who

period

Weimar

render

to

however

The

think

resourceful

her

the

development

end

people, Anna

been

had

one

them,

of

Dr.

joyous.

highly introspective side.

and

in

period

intelligent pleasures?

of

planning

of

Who

turned

but

ing
hamper-

the

advent

and

own.

and

stupid

dulgence
in-

commit

really young

was

an

might

person

years

herself, for the first time

times

old

grew

plenary

during

following Goethe's

The

good

for

Weimar

thirty-six.

sons

wit, such

folly genius

at

as

Amalia
make

of

glorious disregard

immediately

to

DUCHESSES

worship

conventions

Anna

TWO

seq.

and

that

imderstand
(Bohemian?)
of these

men

reads

because

and

women

it

GOETHE

Amalia,

Anna

But
be

kind

blow

from

inasmuch

"

the

also

then
heart

blessed

brother

who

fifteen
into
ordeal

time

burst

give

as

courtship
when

upon

herself

people
for

Then

and
had

ruler

and

and

Weimar

the

happy.

amusement

friendship

that

and
for

we

the
her

him

My

too.

to

for

induct

help

grew

him
So

secret,
son's

ever,
how-

it

next

elder

son

through
not

was

vigour,

pleasure
the

little

the

her

Amalia

Anna

find

the

absorbed,

full of life and

322

was

ences
experi-

and

strength

long-deferred
Here

it

new

child

marriage.

Goethe,

knew

as

clearer, and

join

she

says,

time,

ture.
na-

myself."

first

to

came

duties

of

this

courage

years.

his

the

soon

her

all

well

up

in

she

purest

many

child

her

when

first

ideas

confidence

more

of

ease

lovely

me

So

the

for

me

was

comparative

the

was

life.

lighter, my

bring

To

It

my

husband

describe,"

might

her.

to

affection

possessed

of

joy

became

have

rich

people

come

left with

the

mother!

first

the

been

which

be

to

with

that

emotion

myself

recovered

it to

render

to

had

young

lous.
frivo-

not

was

conceived

her

sad

had

Would

she

happiness

lavish

to

that
with

her

she

she

as

whom

upon

duty

of

which

FRIENDS

light-hearted,

great

death

WOMAN

gather

sacred

Very

early

to

also

of

The

HIS

though

we

happy.

"

AND

secret

friend, the

until
first

free

was

of
of

also, of her

the

to

making
her

zest

ing
unfalter-

Frankfort

GOETHE

AND

HIS

WOMAN

stature, good-looking mth

she
and

feet,

has

her

has

one

arrived

at

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and

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A

faro
a

and
did

not

who

invited
almost

same

writer
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sent

me

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frisS and
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danced

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we

get

had
this

costume

which

brilliant;

of her

maid.

like

The

p.

by

woman

quoted

60.

324

in

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she
mask

o'clock,
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the

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well.

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from

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the Duchess

dresses, and

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young

three

season

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erously
gen-

dance

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students

some

Savoyard

own

to

reine

suited

last ball of the

traveller

anonymous

en

stake

played

of

account

appeared

the

home."

gone

danced

smallest

with

Duchess

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the

stayed till nearly

one

also

glad

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princes,

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the

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light

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gown,

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her

to

Amalia's

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jokes

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could

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than

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would

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forbid
a

to

seem

to

me

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deformed
think

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last

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of

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era

of

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spring with

ference
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the

ters
mat-

joke

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every
woman

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the

dwarf,

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cially
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still

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the
It
every

was

the

of

Karl

and

upon

funny

at

sociated
as-

pranks

in such

story of

but

325

1807, and

some

theirs

deformed

to

driving

illustration

the

woman;

tale

1780

with

as

Gochhausen.
a

was

qtiips and

Goethe

by

against Anna

she

because

us

feeling and

fotmd

which
This

performances

better

no

the

What

things

highly regarded

were

our

Tiefurt

at

well

as

theatrical

day. Practical
and

from

intimate

more

her

over

party.

the

as

to

most

in Weimar.

day

interest

circle

important

most

this

the
of

one

home

summer

all the

with

is

on,

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rainstorm,

in

men

the

was

draw

to

in

out

happened

place of particular

of

lasted

appealed
it

instance

for her

that

particular escapade

dined

so,

ball, which

little and

meant

caught

repeated about

to

Court

to

the

to

world

in the

sensible!

is

went

we

Amalia.

thing

greatcoat
more

DUCHESSES

o'clock."

till six

at

TWO

repeated

evidence

of

GOETHE

AND

One

appreciation.
the

came

up

-was

blown

well

out.

her

bedroom

the

door.

but

But

the

fruits

went

the

hand!

as

cheerily
into

which

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surface

seemed

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gentle knocking
climbed

the

cold
that

removed

good

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and

door

lady
no

staircase

they

her

scended
de-

received

door-knob.

with

wall;

entirely

confusion

room

for
and

of the

have

to

and

her

about

feeling confidently

whole

she

candle

her

gallery

her

explain

to

as

prank

and

the
on

circle

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huge
that
of

Play-acting

place in the Tiefurt

and

fear

and

and

was

not

that

the

the

"

Duke

built

Tiefurt

Amalia's

less

from

than

programme.
326

viands

kitchen

long-ago day

with

vegetables

manufactured
identical

Anna
no

is connected

roasts

cunningly

macM.

in

entire

she

met

her

Tiefurt

been

seen

light

woman

up

in its place!

all the

papier

the

terror

had

"

Another

had

way

half frozen

was

Goethe

wall

her

the

again

deigned

jokers

knew

door

and

little

she

Duchess's

the

crooked

bedroom

to

began

fruitlessly for

she

the

as

reached

over

FRIENDS

her

lock

In

So

groped

and

had

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asleep

response.

imtil

in

groped

to

fast

as

no

disappeared.

was

as

she

vain.

in

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opened,

she

again

night,

dark

and, when

on

WOMAN

stairs leading

the

in

HIS

as

when
dear

which

of

and

wax

still be

may

fresh

and

they fooled

viting
inthe

friends.

practical joking
A

feast

number

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GOETHE'S

esting theatrical
days

happy

in

dilettante

Park,

for

the

of

there

the

among

(Corona

Dorten
better
made

to

see

by

the

hunting
large
the

bridges

lofty

evening
and

it

one

gave

way

of

no

for

interest

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poet
'

was

of

production

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von

Theirs

off.

laughed

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us

had

Erl-Konig

was

on

accident

of
The

reflections
who

were

maiden,

the

course

wooden

the

water.

gaily

was

and

heard

peculiar
of

crisis

the

beloved

this occasion

327

hearth

has

Fischerin

Die

his

and

lustige Zeit, indeed!

of Goethe
to

sent

here

tmaccustomed

all into

and

the

and

lost
in

the

the

lamps.

temporary

it marks

because

jealousy

the

one

and

hurt

was

one

the

crowded

under

strain, precipitating them

But

for

river

near

fire burned.

fishermen,

spectators

upon

the

fascinating

the

the

and

seen

on

bright

the

the

Ihn

boats

were

and

in

itself,illuminated

by

trees

of

the

torches

trade,

and

down
of

of

Ilm

the

Schroter)

torches

number

bank

little operetta.

given

was

surrounded

this

and

up

piece

on

the

organized by Goethe

the

on

being

1782,^ by

poet's dainty

the

of the

implements

of

been

with

famous

most

numerous

fishermen,

of

the

The

with

connected

are

summer

had

partly

occasion

actual

of

who

partly

bridge and

Huts

the

Fischerin.

the

in

Amalia,

Die

Tiefurt

palace,

this

actors

Anna

and

DUCHESSES

performances

production,

the

TWO

Corona

Schroter.

lady the
for the

Frau

manu-

first time.

GOETHE

script of

AND

his

piece but

its receipt;

she

writers
had

first known

in

in

who,

good

arrived
a

admired

had
her
to

the

never

Goethe

acted.

to

have

stage

strength, for

known

she

never

the
of

the
prove

made
328

already
was

but,

her

was

too

decided

would
But

much
move

of

one

but

hardships

up

Weimar,

to

she

any

virtue

by

woman

actresses."

that

The

Goethe

profession she

her

the

tremendously

If

surance
as-

capital.

was

"

more

presence

when

as

year

thinking

was

Oeser, who

must

career

it

Corona,

brought

foremost

our

in

August's

Frederica

theatre

ise
prom-

anything

the

and

artist

days

thalers

that

She

he

under

never

concert-singer

an

whom

student

Lewes

sure

cious
SalaGoethe

instruction, had

excellent

when

his

musician,

both

of

singer

with

not

do.

that

Weimar

Karl

to

student.

the

declare

to

Leipzig friends, declared,

make

all to

hundred

and

college
as

at

I feel

and

and
a

mind

were

Frankfort

as

Corona,

agree

her

"

time

one

seems

talents

her

only

of

applauded

four

income

lured

which

daughter

to

an

have

to

Corona

friends

of

poet

Court

and

operetta

charming

came

of

I, however,

than

"

1776,

life.

Goethe

the

see

Leipzig during

the

that

of

this

from
for

no

acknowledge

not

to

go

blithely

wont

are

with

and

must

FRIENDS

woxild

she

had

liaison

had

she

which

thing

then

WOMAN

she

would

nor

for

played,

HIS

come
be-

Corona
of

for
in

fessional
proher

that

GOETHE

AND

ingly beautiful
One

wonders

had

taken

her

circle but

she

great

the

of

air

pure

go

Goethe
Goethe's

And

dread
down

charming

tribute

poem

death

of

the

stage-manager

the

there

was

Goethe
he

assumed

found

in

then

only thirteen,was

first

important

had

great

from

played

the

showing
part

under

the

of

the

the

tells

the

deep
2q,

us

mann,
Neu-

memory

be

may

the

upon

there

has

previous

chapter

but

itself,the

house

beyond

of

her

the

He

in his memorial

1791.

tutelage of Corona
330

he

who,

felt for
Soon

Schroter.

taught

King

poem,

her.

afterwards

Court

Weimar

Neumann,
years.

scene

Weimar's

during

in Shakespeare's

love

Corona

in which

themselves

Christiane

of Arthur

he

November

company

far

years

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directorship

the

to

later,

year

herself

gatherings

mature

r61e, that

difficulty,as

himself

said

festive

many

'When

her

written

was

in

description

of

germ

withdraw

whose

to

Ettersburg

at

very

elegy Euphrosyne.^

distinguished

so

some

nothing

put

alone,
the

to

Corona

which

performance

Goethe

girl

to

the

Court

pupil Christiane

marvellous

in

Theatre

the

which, five

disease

young

his

undying

so

her

there,

her

found

of

life

caused

same

wrote

been

through

in

smitten

the

and

of

earlier, had

Of

men

felt in herself

1801

Corona

part.

already

Ilmenau.

died, of the

she

to

Iphigenia's

of

the

the

among

she

illness which

in

She

costume.

adaptation

success

read.

there

we

Greek

in

an

elected

likely because

night,"

was

admirers

many

that

and

wearing

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

evening
if Corona

robes, after
had

HIS

John

though
her
"

her

and

in restraining
Christiane
Anna

first

Amalia

Louis
Copyright

TO-DAY.
ETTERSBURG

by

Held,

Weimar.

GOETHE'S

Golden

as

But

which

sides

with

hedge

made

Goethe
the

visit to

recent

"

For

and

hast

his

asked

It

is

blance
sem-

there.
of Weimar,
of

appearest

the

of

I,

'

number

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'

thou

though

others

mere

larks

castle.

larks.

were

their

as

hedges

sparrows,'

nature

ful
beauti-

the

to

up

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my

had

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as

youthful

during

the

in

if they

and

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bird-lore

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of

somehow

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long hill

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Eckermann

was

Eckermann

nature

thou

in

not

it

one,' thought

yellowhammers

are

with

here

scenes

chief

me

investigated

ornithology

midst

the

both

on

vicinity

in

and

observed

beloved

and

great

the

stands

the

place.

had

Goethe

birds

of

the

slowly

climbed

horse

in

on

suddenly

chiefly thought

lecturing

time

lined
into

oneself

1827,

revisiting

that

triuinphs,

drive

trimmed

pilgrimage
of

man,

is

family

park.

autumn

old

the

itself

castle

ducal

five-mile

trees

finds

one

Tiefurt, is

reigning royalties.
the

steadily and

game-stocked

thick

after

highest point

the

and

in

and

magnificent

site is the

The

visitors when

to

ascends

of

unlike
the

by

retreat

it is open

road

DUCHESSES

Ettersburg,

stimmer

in residence,

is not

'

Schloss

Age.

still used

TWO

in

have,

child.

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I.

returned

to

settle

upon

bushes.'
"

and

We
were

were,
now

continually going

meantime,
on

the

edge

of

331

pine

wood.

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up-hill,
came

GOETHE

to

where

place

lay

in

some

broken

him

when

I
the

Always

old

bed

it

time

And

below.
it

whales

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there

yet

were

leafy

'
.

'

would

breakfast

was

backs

the

from

this
lages
vil-

that

there

broad

time

valley
at

"

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least

the

oak

half

Thuringia.

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roast
a

flask

gold which
such

this

excursions

trees

the

us

the

as

wine

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always

"

tinues
con-

our

ate,

we

over

demolished
white
of

out

carried

yellow leather

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with

view

we

new

little

then,

we

extensive

good

332

air.'

and

that,

of very

ourselves

with

other

try how

meantime

partridges,

in

and

superb

so

qtiickly

resting-place,' said

well

seated

we

before

drank

as

in

us

constantly

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good

may

suit

drove

accordingly unpacked

against

brace

is

we

had

on

on.

always

oaks, beeches

were

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Eckermann,

pure

the

to

nimierous

height and

think

breakfast

the

right

our

trees.

Goethe.

and

in

such

was

upon

now

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along.

sported

and

highly probable.'

is
"

when

'

think

to

could

drove

down

the

upon

handed

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looks

wonderful

seems

Goethe,

one

and

Weimar,

around,
was

When

sea.

upon

which

to

shells

some

seat.

my-

if

see

I found

story,' said

old

of the

height

took,

coachman

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and

broken

the

ammonites,

again

been

ordered
to

me

FRIENDS

had

stones

petrifactions.

any

also

'

WOMAN

Goethe

begged

discover

HIS

some

heap.

and

stop

AND

case.

bread,
a

with

cup

of

him

GOETHE'S

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I have

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the

another

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burg

hunting-lodge,

round

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of

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have

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winter

many

'

wood.

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vigour.
spot.

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played
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tree;
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our

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and

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footpath

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stood

on

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how

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est
full-

dry

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pleasant around
evenings,

summer

we

"

Ettersburg

impromptu

Goethe

ago.

has

and

sunny

farces.'

impromptu

of

then

beautiful

the

In

it is still in the

that

see

quite

picture which

giving

was

wasted

beech,' said he,

the

everything

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.

he,

wanton.

air and

fifty years

you

some

angle

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comedies

open

you

how

and

altered

it has

open

our

cut

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the

show

for

sledge-race by torchlight.'

and

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and

tapestry

western

day

chambers

had

and

direction, al6ng

westerly

good

impromptu

into

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beautiful

all young

were

dance

returned

in

the

had

many

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the

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cup,

the

to

the

on

glories.'

all

at

would

early times,' continued

In

spent

we

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me,

chamber
'

good day.

summer

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the

here

had

he,

hence

golden

side

that

each

down

the

with

me

that

their

from

htmg

first story.

the

and

Goethe

spot,' said

look

northern

told

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inhabited

time

the

were

pictures.

and

world

draught

then

this

I should

that

of

kingdoms

the

in

thought

I have

years
time

last

the

be

DUCHESSES

been

often

very

late

of

and

TWO

plays

shows
in

the
r,

them
very
;
.

..

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of

spot
those

AND

which

of

HIS

Goethe

gypsies

but

easily recognizable
to

be

in the

seen

in

shot

And

third

Weimar

associated

with

has

tender

also

Amalia

the

bride

of

the

that

in

bride

not
at

walk

to

intervals

of the

centre

is.a

from

the

village and

perfect May

minutes

of

building

erected

to

and

be

his

about

greenhouses
park and

wood

well

by

1725

in

worth
which
334

home.

it

vedere,
Beldistance
of

resort

For

those

Platz

in
comfortable
un-

it

sealed, though
after

twenty

the

imposing

Duke

Ernest

Here

examining
Goethe

this

of

means

at

castle.

summer

resigned

Wieland

I arrived

discomfort

acute

she

her

jolting automobile

by

afternoon,

Anna

it remained

holidays.

there

circle,

that

favourite

near

of Weimar's

walking

vehicle, hermetically
was

castle

and

easy

and

Sundays

her

student

bringing

was

stag

'"'

and

when

1776,

of

castles

the

1756

is preserved

antler

this

to

was

is therefore

on

runs

It

plays

which

Amalia
for

Also

when

summer

Anna

August

and

town

care

the

are

disguise.

himself.

Tiefurt, is within

Weimarians
who

of

until

Karl

like

the

residence

summer

to

as

came

Goethe

were

Amalia

used

is the

associations

lustige Zeit.

their

treasure

r61es

Anna

scenery

care

by

the

Belvedere,

of

castle is the

Ettersburg

at

Their

and

spite

particular

with

FRIENDS

speaks.
Goethe

given indoors.

were

WOMAN

are

and
and

old
gustus
Au-

orangeries
a

ful
beauti-

his friends

GOETHE

furniture

AND

upholstered
of the

reminiscent
in Rome

with

the

of

wisest

and
here

Club

organized

in

for

was

the

have

be

room

drawing

and
of

day.

closed
the

bit

hour
to

the

near

at

which

upon

stiffness

the

which

had

for

The

to

of

rest

after

themselves

subjects

Theory
here

considered.
336

the

present,

Duke

walked

settling down

and

topic
o'clock
paper

and
about
for the

Immortality

from

had

pened
hapcentre

books

of the

reading

Everything
Colours

he

five

at

including

before

of

ceremony

illustrating the

the

There

in the

placed

opened

always

were

discussion.

Goethe's

in

use

evening, everybody,
who

been

meetings

eight but,

or

table

'largeround

of

ered
consid-

of all.

sitting wherever

one

every

and

be

might

of

month

phases

any

interest

was

Weimar

of

the

provement
im-

plan

of each

discussing

absence

upon

his Duchess,
a

claim

instruments

the

of

Friday

mutual

The

"

its

at

walls.

the

for

1791

intellectuals

science

or

meetings,
to

of the

"

too,

seen,

these

met

years
in

friends

society,

the first Friday

on

be

maj"-

intercourse.

purpose

delightful

the

of

here

literature

at

social

her

between

of

months

happy

Weimar's

by Goethe

Pictures

and

trophy

many

of all the

Jena, for

to

Kauffman

number

gathering

winter

art,

Duchess's

days when

and
a

brocades.

wittiest, assembled

For

for

FRIENDS

rich

Dowager

and

old

good

WOMAN

in

Angelica

everywhere,

are

HIS

place

among

Copyright by Louis
KARL

From

the

painting

by

Ferdinand

Library,

Held,

Weimar.

AUGUST.

Jagemann,
Weimar.

now

in

the

Grand

Ducal

GOETHE'S

On

less

formal

sat

about

friends

TWO

Anna

occasions
this

appealed

whatever

DUCHESSES

Amalia

hospitable

same

each, and

to

passing

so

pleasant

made

sketch

of

years

we

may

look

them

see

to

( hel

just

of Goethe,
EmiUe

from

her

Herder

is

side

other

of those
so

the

drawings

Duchess's

making

noted

the

latest

beyond

false

is Einsiedel,

"

337

her.

who

The

heart

"

man

who,

On
leans
on

which

to

the
to
one

he

Wolfskeel,
appears

to

she

has

nearest

us

though

he

perhaps

"

with
which,

prank

is Fratilein

remark

faint

on

is

side

busy

perspective

perspective.

that

up

which

her

at

Meyer

honour,

saucy

some

joke

them

of

maid

love.

in

Louise

likely engaged

false

not,

sketch

very

Heinrich

is very

with

addicted;

the

planning

table

who

Goethe,

watch

was

the

of

Elise

jealousy, glances

seemingly

outstrip Goethe's

looking

Duchess

her, and

probably

but

the

who

doubt

we

good deal

examine

to

before

holding

then

whom
of

Gore,

hostess;

and

painting;

is

was

pangs

Gochhausen,

sewing

shall

fierce

stitching

Fraulein
her

of

all these

Duchess

thinking,

she

whom

because

Gore,
suffered

has

be

with

Kraus

aloud, and

his

at

were

group

"Charles

reading

painting, while

also

Gore,

been

after

friendly

the

were,

painter

Thus

the

upon

spectacles

his

over

up

in

they

as

the

circle.

Englishman,

have

to

appears

their

they

as

the

left

evening,

her

table, doing

once,

and

GOETHE

made

love
his

see

AND

is not

and

mother

had

Some

of

for

sent

Frankfort.

cold

the

Duchess

that
in

when

Frau

has
To

be

sure

the

then;
half

tell you

the

he
lease

will

chapter,

given

the

to

Nothing
warms

so

our

which

letters

had

Aja

been

would

Wolfgang

Aja!
that

battle

and

"

your
to

not

of the

meanwhile,

but

"

two

lonely mother

the

to

lightly btult

graciously resolved
be

the

Aja

Amalia

Frau

dear

Frau

to

mother.

house

at

ing
worry-

contract

Ilm,

the

on

writes:

"Dearest
able

dear

between

"Weimar,

be

Duchess-

correspondence.

years

his

the

kindly, cheerful

her

Anna

middle-Weimar

own

here

must

Anna

many

Once,

for fear

heavy

so

"

the

the

the

as

rona
Co-

her.

between

these

passed

in

met

about

her

to

bond

Goethe's

which

of

know

we

hearts
she

side

with

never

picture.

for

glimpse

could

friendship which

letters

least

Duchess's
that

for years,

during

warm

already

at

FRIENDS

intimate

developed

the

have

but

and

Goethe

the

was

years

Schroter

in the

sweet

very

Amalia

WOMAN

financially, to marriage

herself

we

Corona

to

way,

One

HIS

hire

present
dear

1781.

pleased

very

to

darling HatscheUians
a

house
before

tenant

mother,

it is well
338

am

in

move

Nov.

31

to

have

in

the

Easter,

is not
we

town.

out

have

got

so

cause
beuntil

gained
much.

GOETHE'S

I have

he

also

is

so

dear

and

sofas

with

much
me!

for
said

the

is the

kind,

so

of chintz

'

That
of

ornament

the

is

cried

he

lovingly;

so

proud

is very

woman

sex!'

her

and

AMEN.

"

sending

am

furt journals.
this

This

and

summer

with

is

HatscheUians,
and

has

Einsiedel.

the

This
made

was

the

wit

life

and

I do

as

easy

letters
Frau

the

way

of

that

Yet
to

keep
see

to

and

Tiefurt

camaraderie

spirits we

of her

in

all in

there.

always

each

Frau

Aja would,

little

shake

to

When

be

to

full

distinction

found

pitch

concert

"

easily

journalism

is found

Amalia

339

her

amatetu-

Anna

Aja.

nowned
world-re-

author."

gave

this

from

are

Secken-

Rath's

which

to

up

also,

you,

Kiiebel,

enable

of

that

contributors

Frau

will

contributions

triumph

The

The

well

so

supply

Herder,

Wieland,

connoisseurship
guess

succeeded

hours.

Tie-

I invented

which

it will

Perhaps

of the

bundle

little sport

which

pleasant

some

dorff

herewith

you

it still continues.

of

be

patterns

Wieland

him

earnestness,
She

please

prices.

[Gossip]

remembering

your

So

some

me

because

furniture

some

good.

with

Gevatter

Herr

DUCHESSES

get

send

to

as

to

and

sweet

mother,

"

of

promised

very

chairs

for

TWO

in the

myself

am

once

to

the

it

not

matter

confession
I

in
a

of

bit
or

one

blue

twice,

GOETHE

and

AND

sit down

After

of

death

the

sustain

the

law

had

given

to

she

was

by

means

in

the

she

discharged with

the

added

duties

Goethe
of

Darmstadt

have

and

bright
such
in

at

from

"for

in

too

aloofness

and

into

family,

society of Weimar
never

of

her

the

air

this, naturally, did

popularity

either

playmates.
she

not

with

Karl

And

so,

to

her

of

be

five

found

sisters,

excellent

an

tend

August

away

too-easy-going
have

frozen
soul.

young

or

in

with

and

to

the
Her

judgment,

increase

to

herself

further
340

by

sitting

feeling

withdrew

to

was

rather

of

too

transplanting,

her

almost

current

almost

to

daily food,"

yoimgest

the

seems

genial
gave

it appears

great literary glory.

its

mother,

Louise

"

creature

as

grace

lot.

and

rate,

taste

and

ease

nature's

the

of

Duchess

any

1757,

virtuous

all her

was

human

at

though

equal either

her

closely chaperoned

were

highly

this

period of

the

Berlin

all of whom
and

she

nature,
at

of

"angel,"

an

that

good

Weimar

Bom

fact

human

fell to

now

to

mother-in-

And

surprising

always
as

"

been

rather

volved
de-

consort,

discrimination

in

or

it

1807

woman's

older

which

speaks

ideas

my

gifted

her

of Weimar.

Court

mind

of

activity

the

in

August's

Karl

which

distinction

no

Amalia

Anna

Duchess,

the

upon

then

draw;

or

rose."

de

couleur

again

are

clavier

the

to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

her

his frivolous
be

further

"

understood
mis-

into

GOETHE

him

brought

in

it.

in her

married

of

face

Karl

his

as

is!

he

let any

could

Louise's
Then

fail

not

and

calm
there

husband

Mention

has

Goethe

Caroline

Jagemann,

nothing

but

the

called

was

Duke

had

proved

too

resigned.

the

there

finally
for

The

there

the

question

boards

of

of

cause

dog and

is

the

of
in

the
As
a

came

patience

the
to

reason

trouble
believe

the

poodle's

Weimar

theatre

of

342

strained.

Karl

August's

whose

interest

another

Jagemann

his

to

relations

more

bear

the

trying

the

make

was

silence.

taken

much

to
even

to

nor

nature.

whom

upon

very

of this temperament

Schroter,

in

the

most

How

exceedingly

there

and

still himself

made

about

suffer

but

made

been

Corona

nified,
dig-

in

was

"

of him,
sit

wife

and

and

he

husband

be

interfered, but

Goethe

And

jealousies

already

for

penchant

to

early

scenes

impatience

self-contained

were

between

of

neither

can

scene

ardent, impulsive

said

once

had

he
a

cold, reserved

been

else sit still."

one

many

conventions.

He

after
make

to

good

was

had

Goethe

unreposeful.

but

poet;

was

August

mother

FRIENDS

wrong

She

harhpering

restless

was

made

life.

while
full

WOMAN

the

Louise

Louise

about

as

HIS

dog in, declared

the

bring

AND

actress,
do

could

poet

theatre-director

good

deal, after

under

his

issue

an

and

he

was

that

to

seem

which
at

once

ing
perform-

the

appearance

tection;
pro-

actress
upon

of

far

GOETHE'S

importance

greater
otherwise

stage

such

as

Karl

on

to

insist

upon

which

the

matter

had

done

very

trying episode.

Yet

it

Goethe
on

public

at

of

attitude

supplanted
in

more

physicians
again

hope

hand,

wrote

knew

for

rendered

her

in

assured

to

bear

Fraulein

the

of

one

"

her

ranging

had

the

Jagemann

been

showed
On

one

complimented

exquisite

The

song.

who

woman

in

way

affections

had
was

extraordinary.

When

she

never

that

children

Jagemann
343

been

he

beautiful
this

time

Karl

never

husband's

her

aspects than
had

towards

Louise

Duchess

conspicuously

gathering

Court

due

it had

that

the

of

out

but

for

result

against the lady.

she

indeed,

she. had

which

the

sure

resentment

any

occasion,
her

be

of

and

because

"

side of Louise, who

To

lover

In

definitely than

more

the

effect

egged

so

As

course,

his poet,

good

one

rival.

for her
in

had

even

before

of

the

permission

much.

so

of

Goethe's

over

practically turned

adjusted,

was

and

"

refused.

already

himself
he

dignity

exhibition

really deeply loved

August

"

the

had

poet

office for which

authority

having

would

passionate

would

Goethe

the

implied

was

his

found

Goethe

the

who

assert

of

it

than

that

lowering

performance

August,

dogs,

August
knew

She

such

any

DUCHESSES

Karl

to

been.

have

brook

not

TWO

she,
a

could

with

letter

her

own

begging

GOETHE

her

to

AND

the

accept

Duke!

In

in

five

the

house

of

mistress

made

Duke,

and

in

where

Anna

Amalia

years

children

after

in

her

up

had

died,

of the

brother

her

18 17, to

von

took

1812

pleasantly together and

writing thus,

the

to

Baroness

was

In

gambolled

Louise

lady

the

before.

years

families

by

FRIENDS

WOMAN

appointment

1809, the

Heygendorff
abode

HIS

two

find

we

stadt
Darm-

at

:
"

Vous

I'alne

Heygendorff,
Due,

The

brother

this

at
"

je

etonnez

des

beau-fr"re,
la-dessus.

prSs

terre

de

Geusau,

et

de

que

le

de

nom

qui

et

est

et

prince

Quoted

in

Celui
fort

la

part
et

de

Berlin,

au

sa

1905.

344

von

dinaire;
extraor-

Due,

votre

celui

est

d'une
famille

une

k la mort

Due

k la

fait, car

cette

gendorff
Hey-

renseignements

progeniture.
de

content

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ni

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bien

surprise

nom

frappant

Heygendorff

Louise, Grossherzogin

Bojanowski,

du

ni

retomb^e

soin

sera

et

explained:

AUstedt, qui appartenait

justice d'avoir

et

then

6claircissements

enfants

ses

expressed

ebahissez

pourtant

propri^taire.

dernier

von

Le

et

she

donnede

vous

du

Stiisse

en

envoye

have

to

for

qui n'est

jeune

tin

gauche

progeniture

qu'il

appears

vous

jours

ces

prisent^."

annotmcement

Vous

la

de

fetre

vous

de

un

beau-fr^re,

votre

doit

qui

arriver

verrez

du

Jagemann

il y

Je

devoir

suppose

explication." ^

Sachsen-Weimar,

by

Eleonore

GOETHE'S

Although
intimate

Louise

and

resent,

and

very

life.

summed

in

up

make

other

It

"Weimar

owed

its

hands

the

Conqueror

of

for the

made

of

danger.

But

and

broke
their

out

red

glare

she, who
sides

cries

of

drunken
Then

the

into

resolved

the

to

mingled

the

city,

the

all sides

Fire, too,

casting

even

while

apartments
stay, heard
with

of

scene

on

on.

flames

other

thought

and

going

Duchess's

seemed

hastily

moment

streets

when

and

fell in

castle, the

distress

city
were

from

at

Germany,

upon

Duchess-mother

were

that

For

little

to

destruction

down

for

since

trying

minions.

famous

never

the

has

Louise

arrangements

pillage

there

had

from

his

filled the

the

near

by, acting

yourself."

Duchess

Cannon-balls

dead
and

and

and

Louise

mellow

Stop

good

royal household

the

destruction

of

sword

passed

be

the

to

1806, the

fleeing herself.

wounded

and

not

Christiane

very

"

were

did

of

grew

counsel,

sweeping

for removing

members

she

preservation

came

of

coming

years

terse

Napoleon

autumn

doomed

of

the

Duchess

principle Tolstoi

people good

the

in the

ethical

undoubtedly

was

fact
the

as

the

on

In

Stein

von

the

did, the

generous

evidently

Charlotte
friends

Chariotte

as

DUCHESSES

and

devoted

Goethe's

into

TWO

the

from
wild

all
riot

soldiery.

after

Napoleon

twenty-four
himself

hours

entered
345

of
the

fearful

tion
expecta-

town,

coming

GOETHE

straight

but

him.

As

with

marked

she

Who

"

The

"

"

night

The

horrid

then

fowls

Kraus

to

voice

she

the

which

he

away,

for

me

quietly replied.

and

the

called

out

in

own

my

free

was

painter,

the

and

from

he

down

and

Yet

Louise

and

stayed
to

on

to

rose

in

beat
her

the

Napoleon

fetch

old

him

assault.

pluck

little group

Next

palace.
that

the
346

were

them

(he
some

downstairs.
the

spectacles they

so

ever
how-

gentleman
to

found

his

all the

in

placidly complied, they deriding him

when

ments."
apart-

instance,

for

commanded
had

rudely,

inhabitant,

no

peror,
Em-

husband."

your

soldiery in

the

by

the

soldiers

her

demanded,

said

crush

must

seventy)

over

meet

regarded

quite ruthlessly, everything

him

sent

forsook

never

madame,"

rapine

destroyed,

and

"

distinguished,

of
into

rifled

But

of

or

rooms

broken

very

for

ready

staircase

loud

roof

very

"

spent

excesses

aged

in

got ready

was

which

Napoleon

you,

but

be

diimer

made

Weimar!

turning abruptly

Let

was

for

sorry

am

Then,

The

of

Duchess

and

grand

the

madame?

you,

her

dignity

hostility and

are

under

seized

approached

coldly,

"

had

with

FRIENDS

WOMAN

apartments

descended

Louise

"

HIS

servitors

Pale

him.
her

the

to

his

which

AND

cruelly

that

of female

while.

knocked
he

died.

attendants
word

morning
Duchess

He

of

was

Weimar

GOETHE'S

requested

brought

monarch

the

bargain,

himself
On

his

"

could

Your

had

husband,

madame,

would

"

Prussia
"

Louise,

mighty

could

been

upwards

of

surely

and

the

quite

becoming
that
ties
connue:

How

la

so

he

were

htunan

mad

so

How
to

as

if he

answer.

question

next

in the

but

with

years,"

as

you

to

face

King

answered

the

when

not

was

of the

service

thirty

talking

had

King

that

length

at

la
avez

deep and

and

the

Duke

of

broke

out,

plus respectable
sauve

sincere

the

votre
was

347

her

with
"

Louise

soon

business

fashion, Napoleon

greatly impressed

femme
vous

"
"

despised him

irresistible

was

Emperor

in

hand

reply

be

tion,
ques-

him."

abandon

Such

it

opponent

an

invited

before.

has

and

into

address,

have

the

came

husband

My

of

well-nigh inspired

the

pretty

"

less gruffness than

"

so

mode

was

well

and

answer

was

not

instantly with

began

he

was

he

lady's apartment.

the

favourite

so?

How

much

in

that

could

so

whom

to

man,

who

gracious

majesty

not,"
"

duchess

against me?

war

"

of

returned

your

make

general and

entrance

great

saving reflection

breakfast

to

his

as

bully

to

The

the

well

as

continue

DUCHESSES

interview.

an

sleep had

TWO

the

noble

Madame,
que

at

while

ties
qualivous

j'ai jamais

mari."

Napoleon's

admiration

GOETHE

be

may

AND

from

seen

General

to

deux

And

weeks

Her

for

or

the

conduct

throne

in

moral

dignity!"

He

Europe;

several

battle

of

her

in

the

of

he

of

of

for

Karl
and

he

been

arisen

14

made

truer

and,

because

two

persons

shrank

done

this

on

and

Duchy,

once

marked

was

the

and

"

of too

by

inscription

by

Goethe

for

before

days

Louise

surrounded
to

every

imprisoned.

had

his

the
sake.

of

been

she

head

wrote

had

it had

of the

events

Duchess

her

for

opinion

visit

few
of

for

few

the

and

do

this

her

what

said,

woman

had

Weimar,"

leaves, she

simple incident

wife

see

October

bearing

Gerettete

oak

But

who

husband

return

medal

tasteful

of

bler!
trem-

model

1813,

made

people

notice

for her
the

Das

in

faire

solely for her

as

did

Weimar

all modest

occasion

of

Lutzen,

service

public

when

serve

nos

ornament

intercession, instantly released

Like
from

For

he

may

cherished

too.

years,

is done

have

pu

the

possess

never

to

seems

pas

whatever

to

qu'avec

deputies

You

Duke

ought

femme

n'avons

princesses;

country

"

"

made

subsequently

une

Weimar

the

to

FRIENDS

he

Voil^

nous

afterwards,

German

the

"

canons

WOMAN

remark

Rapp:

cent
"

HIS

that

wreath
very

tance,
great impor-

quite naturally

out

of

the

time."

August
never

knew

how

failed, after
348

much
her

he

owed

historic

to

encounter

his

CHAPTER

XIII

BETTINA

Letters

poetical

fancies,

love,

of

by

"

at

so,

or

be,

not

them

adored-.

were

for

or

they

rate,
the

And

Brentano's,
and

this

the

key

They

while

the

child

wonders

the

"

reading

whom

to

child

gifted

Goethe

poet

is

of

since

or

man.

believe

must

we

great

to

woman

wild

tions
declara-

before

"

letters

are

of

burning

written

never

woman

any
to

"

Bettina

as

descriptions

to

man

could

full

so

of

the

correspondence.
Of

there

course,

shocked

but

whimsical
it

been

Bettina

In
"

say,

it

Paul

the
there

while

in

was

impropriety

of

walks

long-ago

and

"

as

the

as

to

of

Bettina's
with

agree

Blackwood's
such

beautiful,

morning

that

wherein
would

conduct

(the

them

in

talk

to

"

critics)

and

graceful
and

in

evening

Virginia.
of

summer

lived

people

impropriety

improper

Brentano

be

inclined

am

that,

very

from

"

the

in

maintained

have

"

essay

was

free

of

whispers

behaviour;

always

will

in

1807,"

Frankfort
350

this
a

essay
little

on

goes

girl

of

to

four-

BETTINA

teen

fifteen

or

and

light and

so

might

have

tania;

but

of

in

her

she

was

was

majestic
and

"

female)

of

her

friend

and

old

lady

sat

at

and

they

feet

as

For

carried

always

girl talked

of

in

so

1749

"

the
a

many

by

on

sweet

boy

and

who

the

old

351

Bettina

time

forth;
in

have

such

the

many.
Ger-

been

tion
conversa-

two."

been

before

years

and

friends

hear

make

And

it would

to

her

to

old lady's
'

that

lived

to

the

her;

lady and

had

and

went

friend?

from

thing

wall

old

at

and

Madame

somebody

tenderest

pleasant

the

(male

years

kissed

day,

two

in the

mouse

was

after

the

were

And
be

day

and

for

was

my

tender-hearted

stool

be

you

delighted

was

her

Will

on

where
any-

town

women

for

"

ever

or

same

Bettina

yearning
down

sat
'

the

name

herself.

heart

said,

Her

by

of, and

old

at

girl that

compensate

seventy-five

was

house

to

other

the

feet

to

enough

Frankfort,
she

old
with

all

in

strong-minded,

"

sort

Frankfort,

or

dwelt

there

was

Everywhere

little

cleverest

fairyland

talent

and

an

Now

in

Goethe

in

woman

stupidity

in

musical, her lips rosy.

Ti-

yet arrived

not

she

Queen

there

eyes

stature

that
of

was

the

in

movements

attendant

an

deep black

as

with

in her

fairies have

either

seen,

for

small

very

the

known

else.

her

voice

age,

dancing

passed

light that

and

of

years

bom
that

the

eager

little

in Frankfort
the

child,

at

GOETHE

least, did
of

man

here

almost

yotmg,

HIS

realize

not

and

with

AND

there

white.

indeed,

and

when

joy

as

companion

to

make

to

country

was

that

sixty

She

that

ladies, for their

beside

afterwards
the

time

her

forced

was

Weimar.

to

of

seat

herself
take

to

he

journey

was

always

as

offered

that

him

nearly

was

now

was

hair

pictured

wife, in

Berlin, and

"

boy

with

summers,

so

his

at

"

this

brother-in-law

her
to

FRIENDS

WOMAN

The
and

war

the

protection, disguised themselves

in

men's

clothes.

time

Bettina

passing

"

they

as

generally useful

the

of

hard

capital

of

Germany,

But

garb
she

did

little

of

sought

secured

postboy.

as

Bettina

was

dear

brother,

this

little note

Although

am

to

La
see

will

after

literary

hero, Goethe.
the

in

poet
her

and

the

dress,

from
a

him

of

letter

I think:

Sophia's sister, Maximiliane's

Brentano,

daughter, Sophia

her
to

the

at

was

So

deliciotis

written,

ever

herself

done.

relation, Wieland,
as

where

there

Hastily changing

following note,

the

of

inns

when

arrived

herself

present

her

out

introduction

"

not

she

whole

making

be

to

the

the

and

"

home

the

box

at

horses

the

travelling

she

tiger

unharnessing

week

the

on

night

arotmd

and

harnessing

little

for

stopped

sat

Roche's
says

you;

be

granddaughter,
she

talisman

tolerably

certain

352

fears
of
she

you

courage

makes

wishes,
and
to

game

that

her.
of

BETTINA

yet I

me,

if you

much

do

must

what

compelled

not

are

shall

asks, and

she

do

to

the

wonder

same.

"W."

Armed

with

Bettina

of which

"

back'

lady
The

stretched

quickly

to

'

you?

were

penetrated

room

and

'

silence
that

death

of

the

don't

read

heart;

papers.'

everything

which

have

interested

you.'

over

long

you

alone;

and

newspapers.'
pause,

anxiety.

"

You

I fixed
know

sofa

I
'

last

loss, a few

'
"

'

No,

You

are

that

to

how
353

ago,

Ah,'

hard

him.

to

the

papers

by

said

I had

the

I, 'I

believed

Weimar

would

interests

impatient

sofa

it is for

me

me

to

pore

child.'

kind

tiresome

his

broke

days

nothing

his

into

me

the

in

far too

am

which

in

'

me

frightened

he

Indeed?

happens
'

led

read

caught

opposite

at

believe.

with

he

Amalia?

Duchess

that

but

words

doubtless

great

the

the

mute;

have

suffered

we

my
on

"

child, have

Poor

both

You

dear

me.

upon

Goethe

"

first

me

were,

the

stood, solemnly

him,

the
to

placed

we

historic

to

eyes

towards

'

he

fixed

with

his heart.

voice

the

wrote

there

consciousness.

These

There

and

hands

all

presence

Frankfort:

in

my

lost

soon

promptly

she

looked

and

grave,

occurred

then

opened

door

beloved

the

to

passport

forth, and

set

encounter

old

this

"

in such
to

sit

GOETHE

still in

such

possible
'

Can't

so

I flew

to

he,

his

'

have

that

undeniable
and

no

her

out

is

doubts

one

soul

fact

elaborates

letters

commonplace
he

had

once

been

of

the

letters

and,
called
"

hast

her

Hey!
thou

when
to

love.

about

the

the

thus

are

been

myself
often
as

Werther
basis

in

poetically

whose

rather
mother
most

addressed,

too

"

poured

Goethe's

Httle

is

fectly
per-

ent
correspondextravagant,

roundly:
bewitched!

child, thou

art

taken

thy head?

into

her

to

Aja, ^o whom

of her

had

fiction

much

girl with

poet

quent
subsewith

Child

Prau

nature

Bettina
order

had

with

the

to

and

just

manipulates

in

understood

But

"

life."

more

she

"

asleep

new

them

that

of what

otherwise

.was,

I fell
a

and

long,

so

this

of

him.

to

treatment

and

Then
knee

letters

some

minute

up.

encounters

wrote

Correspondence

the

so

read

we

for

considerably

seen

in missives

fictional

his

began

Bettina's
is

for

sprang

him.
I

said,

home.'

slept

after

as

of

have

and

on

I awoke

Goethe

"

me

not

sighing

book

That

suddenly

at

is it

mother,

Still,quite still it

when

her

fact.

than

drew

he

remember,

to

sofa,'

I had

and

yourself

"

descriptions
Goethe

the

make

in

Ah,

oneself?

heart.

passed

FRIENDS

manner.

upon

his

breast;

WOMAN

forget

vanished.

had

We

HIS

bred

neck,

to

me

his

far

said

everything

on

well

here

to

locked

stay

Well,'

years

AND

354

What

Why,

who

fancies
is

thy

BETTINA

'

is to

beloved,' who
too?

moonshine,
tell

in

letters
of

how

First, who

they

whether
In

reply

got

the

shall

never

mother
"

"I

wisdom?

sick;
where

the

parts;

be

and

she

I wrote

to

wisdom

streaming
the

April

it,and

have
the

saw

poet,

or

purpose."
Goethe's

"

"

out

of

spring
I

had

for

cat

or

the

nearly
might

and

that

was

recompensed
tree

reflected

the

early

In

me.

and

sitting

the

the

exalted

upon
355

the

to

above

ramparts

seat

which

no

mirror

simbeams
I

foliage; there, too,

brunette,

somed
blos-

shade,

for

joy

six

have

orange-tree
table

was

principal

there, in its sweet-scented

its

to

the

pasteboard,

the

had

to

What

it.

winter,
of

philosopher,
In

I attain
to

In

lantern

knight

part

friend;

my

through

I went

the

no

presumptuous

greatest

shines

lead

not

magic

chamber;

would

opposite

sun

request

year?

this

the
was

my

around

and

them

should

How

life does

profited something.

made

after

like

the

to

imperious

heard

studied

in

is, also,

wise.

made

cat

weeks, but

the.

that

lonely

then

whether

read.

to

thing

one

you

rather

and

seen

orderly,

nected
con-

following:

My
I

have

which

something

there, how

is

for

rains;

to

is

dressed;

are

it

there

happens,

all that

another.

in

which

write

order;

things

servant!

humble

Your

again, put

thee,

Write

He!

by

by night and

of thee

think

write

all

her,

saw

men.

and

to

the
In

sought

GOETHE

the

AND

first violet

drive
sunrise

and

of

pair

HIS

horses;

laid

out

life, what
I write

to

that

an

abundance

to

him

"

It

leaf

from

and

laid

cheek
feet

the
it

and

vine

on

him

Now,

what

of

this

revel

in

are

blessed, do

wrote

her,

on

remind

of

'

while

his

at

in

passed

have

we

have

not

What

quiet

that

window

stool

could

bliss?

young

thy

time

would

that

leaf and

the

the

his

This

wisdom

repaid

May,
off

broke

upon

imrevealed

have

within

pleasure; they
but

desires

then,

most

around

which

another

one

tracted
de-

words

peace

which

us?
.

you,

I sat

upon

genius could

He

What,

He

grew

leaned

to

bloomed

which

downy.'

from

'

What

refreshinglyexpress

cheek, saying

my

both

silence.

of

for

of

way

always

beginning

fbrst time.

for the

are

spoken

wise?

he

I, the

in the

last year,

was

him

saw

tions
carna-

them?

want

not

such

blessed;

since

wisdom,

and

happiness.

my

milk-woman

become

pleases him;

by

drove

deep-red

In

thoughts, which

love,

the

the

"

me

to

potato-fields and

with

how

or

makes

of

my

talent

learn,
son

your

and

more,

can

the

flowers.

favourite

my

I learned

May

morning

in

plant

to

in

the

carnation-bed,

are

in

walked

helped the gardener

I

FRIENDS

botanized;

Oberrad,

to

WOMAN

November
me

of

certainly happier and

3,
a

time
better

356

1809,
when
than

"

Your
I was,
I

am

letters

give

perhaps,
now."

as

me

great

foolish

as

GOETHE

this

at

him

to

look

poet's lap!

Hs

of

much

"with the

would

the

was

less

or

carefully

for
a

box

kind.

One

in

which

and

she

thereceiptof
The

but

the

given
by

the

date

of

poet

had

conducted

it

should

here

original

of

Her

sives
mis-

while

I have

and

his
seen,

promptly
is

in

February,

to

him

to

edged.
acknowl-

Bettina's
and

her

in

of Albrecht

picture

dispatched

letter

1810;

book

is

discussion

inspired Elective

which

emotions

the

not

letter

of

this

visit,which

next

effusive

have

praise of

fervid

to

one

refers

to

this

as

him

way
to

girl

manner

sent

he

corresponding

over

little

unimpassioned

has

appears
which

be

this

Between

his, which

most

restrain
of

Bettina

of

perfectly commonplace

Durer

the

the

only

reproved

child.

to

in

was

could

like

and

and

it

adoration

first,and

things she

of

that

Goethe

does

sleep

to

looked

continued

Bettina

thanks

Which

desultory correspondence.

probably
were

went

snubbed

last, Goethe

the

more

she

troublesome

visit, which

often

boresome

be

to

snub

was

the

complained

coldness.

difficultythat
at

bear

not

Bettina

indeed, insists

though

who

FRIENDS

that

Goethe's

Riemer,

impatience

could

WOMAN

if she

as

greatest

woman

HIS

time, records

very

bitterly
not

AND

Affinities!
Bettina,
herself
novel

as

and

the
so

be

explained,

Ottilie

frankly appropriated
358

in
to

that
her

regarded

remarkable
own

vanity

BETTINA

and

for

in

her

which

Minna

Goethe

the

had

Herzlieb.

explain

to

book

own

poured

But
as

away,

extraordinary

if

even

natural

one

such

any

known

to

poems

in

1813-19,

of

Achim

and

Amim

latter

this

April, 1811, Bettina, aged twenty-six

old

quite

enough

according
together
took

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during this first visit,

rotondiU," undeterred
no

he

from

that

was

Weimar,

at

her

to

the

great

Throughout

Madame
he

Stael

her.

spent

to

writings

while

person

Goethe's

regularly laid siege

she

own

his

of

scenes

his

de

with

no

heart."

the

Madame

love

in

But
.

is his

cient
is still suffi-

imagination

active
in

have

we

of

eyes

the

suffered

There

Werther

lively impression

in

of

his

everything.

more

part

while

of

warmth

produced

of

composition

animate

to

.bore

the

Amims

pert little baroness

breach
the

between

Weimar
and

369

the

ladies

long refused

Goethes

sided
to

with

forgive

GOETHE

Goethe

AND

taking

for

of the

the

Christiane's

years

after

again

make

came

(1824)

and

told,

work

last

guest

friend.

How

he

had

the

execute

this
of

work

dollars

work

of this

book.

had

thus

binding

of

public.

The
1

had

four

sons

and

370

he

have

to

Germany,
sand
thou-

seven

to

devote

to

made

after

the

finding
be

an

she

upon

copies
she

his

this young

enough

determined

Accordingly

translation
She

and

not

she

as

words

in

decided

would

thousand

ten

that

seems

praised, but

far earned

add

family !

profits from

with

the

life

published

properly,

sum

of

we

the

to

last

album

monument

and

seen

thousand

seven

the

Goethe

the

poet's

for

than

entertained

the

then

kindly,

interesting

she

sum

Goethe

designed

literary fame

This
of-

erection

design

that

immense

dollars.
the

the

letters, when

her

brought

in

eight

She

indeed,

son,^

eldest

with

did

it very

Goethe

curiously

Bettina's

about

kindly,

verses

up

until

monument

It is

ler's
Schil-

Weimar.

at

spoke

whom

some

bound

been

him

Bettina's

was

Not

death, however,

art.

as

globular form

Charlotte

of

quarrel.

more

stranger

wrote,

ever

he

much

"

merited

the

show

to

"

the

(one

welcome

Bettina

honour

are

"

the

FRIENDS

of

part

Geheimr'dthin

Frau

expressions!) in

his

WOMAN

HIS

to

English
spent

that
to

plement
suplation
trans-

all that

the

printing and

for

the

English

laboriously performed
three

daughters.

GOETHE

stands

she

American

An

'

Germanic

was

One

Bostonian

towards

Europe
with

held

her

the

in

reading

"An

Goethe?

Not

least at the

be

to

girls,as

well

highest."

Five

of

interview
"

time
^

of the
later

thus

her

smile

beautiful.

Hand

quotations

attractive
In
on

Parker's
Goethe's

Quoted

the

from

the
for

"

in Sanborn's

one

were

wisest

he

met

face

trip

Berlin

at

His
most

Recollections

372

to

and

After
with

creature

he

had

of the

and

wish

of

one,

at

queerest

and

deepest

her

and

and

had

an

She

is full of

must

this edition.

once

expression,

quite long,

follow

work

of 1839.

character

is

sixty.

English is Bettina's

Journal

tion
edi-

Correspondence

reports

handsome;

little

his

been

Our

y
often

wife,

about

have

'

his

one

he

contributed

during

thus

did

years

which

Boston.

beginning, middling,

"

woman,

her

as

things

conversation.

Bettina
.

Fields

American

Bettina

What

time.

English

about

this

commented

book,

of the

and

greatly

Goethe's

had

ciled
recon-

over

and

who,

on

German

mystery.

in

remarkable

astotmding

ending

Ticknor

had

Parker,

very

Child, Parker

height

1844, called

in

quite

Bettina's

reception for

Theodore

was

is

enthusiasm

who

cordial

of

by

time
its

at

One

non-execution

edition

which

at

FRIENDS

the

to

published

was

1859

WOMAN

tiptoe."

on

this

reading

translation
in

HIS

painfully

after
work.

AND

nails

long

Its curious

but

own.

observations

written

at

the

same

severe.

of Seventy Years,

Vol.

11, p.

531.

BETTINA

and

her

dirty;

disarranged.
the

English.

tyrannize
but

no,
"

the

pleased

when

I told

bread

in

in

men

to

did

not

did

not

all

her

men

of

and

people,

affairs

religious; bmlt

of

suffering

there

the

was

much

were

the

but

"

and

parts

Still there

famishing.

land,

the

her

side.

books

were

of

I told

other

spoke

state

in

was

the

rich

king

did

holders
landthem

cathedral

that

thalers.

million

she

America?

that

the

He

good.

the

from

70,000

enough

said

the

on

her

that

crushed

cost

if

She

almost

want,

no

Asked

letters

many

Silesia; said

was

came;

was

for

she

America.

in

little

[of introduction]

letter

women

tyranny

has

room

the

over

She

read

the

gave

the

shabby,

Presently

porter.

speak.

attire

...

"

in

complained

had

She

Deutschland.
had

she

enough

the

prophet and
said

She

prayed
there

but

was

nor

she

Then
no

you

he

other

man.'

she

no

But

of

was

more

that

harm
was

373

of

None

to

the
his

prayer.

I asked

wojld

she

neither

true

for

ish
Jew-

nothing;

was

each

it

apostle.

was

name

'

not

lacked

heathen;

that

took

'

courage

Christian

Christian.

Christ?

no

men

but

whose
He

is

courage
a

her

told

and

done

the

God,

one

respect for
had

had

Christian

Jehovah;
said

if the

inspiration
not

was

her

she

Jupiter.

to

Jupiter

for

she

told

that

there

that

his

'

person,

than

fault; for

Have

any
many

GOETHE

his

years

been

beheaded
the

which

had

the

that

greatest

my

thinking,

and

doing good.

not

vulgar

and

is about

exceeding

when

she

enjoyed,

would

have

October

and
'

Elephant,"

late

to

In

found
he

1831, when
relieve

the

cholera
stricken

Funfzehn Essays,

This

hotel

Thackeray

had

the

Vol.

Ill,

"

Becky

Sharp

p.

day depressing.

It

the

in

evening
The

et

"

stay.

374

she
her
was

at

the

ing
morn-

Park

worked

Berlin, Bettina
of the

next

the

across

to

which
in

283

her

her

people

early

to

and

city.

seq.

is also interesting

"

with

and

many

hotel

people

poor

still standing

"

in

raged

the

interesting

made

market-place.

from

had

English."

most

he

her

met

in the

walked

the

she

sprightliness of

gives

though

half

English

Her

nearly sixty,

was

velopme
(de-

and

hour

talk

pilgrimage which

thoroughly

'In

was

fallen,^ and

Yet

mental

Grimm

Weimar

they

the

being good

had.

to

to

doing good

an

she

was,

der Menschheit

we

try

to

reth,
.Naza-

of

there

the

German.

my

on.

religion

was

but

stayed
time

lost

of

her

lifting up

as

never

account

in

but

carried

of

that

the

in virtue

Jesus

doctrines

Yes;

which

name

man,

I told

said

man).

Herman

the

been

Entwickelung

the

youth.

place

She

generosity

Bettina

has

religion;

one

bad

as

liberals;

for

animated

most

(axe) with

great

charity,

of

Beil

respect.

but

helping forward

FRIENDS

tyranny

all the

for

WOMAN

the

worst

found, however,
and

"

HIS

has

name

have

bigots
of

AND

as

the

one

in which

BETTINA

Garden-House,

the

of

Goethe

talk

and

the

enter

they

Grimm
all her
that

Goethe

records

that

old

stUl

and

held

her."

Her

distinction

and

house

close

to

young

at

in

the

age

spiritas

of
the

Goethe

of

of

trace

all the

niscences
remi-

present which

of

resort

end

she

died,

seventy-three,

375

and

with

people

kept

of her

was

friends.

of

pathetically
sym-

of

January

she

she

charm

literary aspirations

youngest

sociate
(as-

Stein),

of pleasure and

she

their

bench

von

The

very

When

rising generation.
1859,

the

For

hedge.

almost

the

the

able

were

quite without

"

then

was

they

that

spoke

much
was

to

up

place

Frau

pervades

elderly people.

enjoy,

The

memories

half -broken

the

Bettina

which

dearest

in the

and

enthusiasm

her

kept

hole

on

with

of

for

badly

down

sadness

could

so

garden by

sat

which

connected.

were

uninhabited
to

with

the
20,

still as

CHAPTER

XIV

MINNA

About

of

none

Goethe's

is

husband

and

that

very

each

of

of

unpleasant
whom

of

Lutheran

whose

father

had,

thereupon,

well

so

Jena.

he

acquaintance

typical

was

which

Goethe

day

Goethe

one

necessarily

bom
when

his

under

sees

was

saw

376

her

up,
:

in

and
From-

with

the

in

1789

she

first

through

his

household

at

pleasantly
father's

his

from

brought

was

the

has

wholesome

and

died

by

Prommann

spent

child, and

Minna

of

household

that

sweet

years

the

with
of

nine

sion
pas-

pastor

had

been

The

Herzlieb

connection

had

only

the

altogether
in

girl of

their

Minna

was

son

mother

has

of

story

Minna,

adopted

from

business,

pictured

been

known

relations

former
and

in

acknowledges

daughter

who

Ottilie

the

friendly

which

wife

original

or

made

how

the

as

Herzlieb,

Wilhelmine,

publishing

when

us

Minna

name

tion
misinforma-

more

another.

manns,

and

been

whose

for

Ziillichau,
who

there

about

Affinities,

Elective

was

to

with

women

has

than

down

come

the

linked

circulated

HERZLIEB

roof

description
the
and

ment
environ-

against

HERZLIEB

MINNA

"

At

in

seven

went

everyone

father

out

breakfast,

which

fruit, when

it

^At

twelve, usually,

cousins.

At

all

work,
.

By

this

such

as

hour.

tea

but
the

evening;

kettle

biscuits

were

in

Uked.

who

If
for

table

nobody

he

came,

friends

if ladies had

invited

and

often

it

the

was

she

way

get

Severe

toward

toward

others:

lay

in

She

tongue,

she

could
and

the

she

was

and
a

to

About

miniature-painter
377

of quite

tea,

or

sufficed

knew

it

by
how
to

turn.

indixlgent
others

over

bands
o'clock, hus-

seven

wives;

French,

read

began

and

power

their

and

would

mother,

give

mild

of her

speak English

come

to

debate

to

was

fetch

My

questions,

how

secret

in

conversation
.

and

reading, and

When

herself, she

come

read

asked

knew

unselfishness.

her

would

'

and

talk.^

men

lively,

too

lively.

very

listened

the

make

to

themselves,

the

butter

father

dropped

...

her

for

might

my

of

fond

was

and

anybody

"

the

done

aside,

put

my

was

had

boiled, bread

If bachelor

well.

had

our

three

at

o'clock

five

mother

time

she

lessons.

us

gave

to

lesson, along with

again;

was

the

on

aloud,

read

back

went

precisely,dinner;

work

his

to

he

and

butter

and

mother

My

my

for his second

room

then

had;

drawing

one

...

went

be

to

o'clock

ten

of bread

o'clock.

till one

father

counting

consisted

was

At

work.

of his

which

coffee, after

morning

his

to

came

business

the

as

well

uncommon

by
as

eight,

her mother

ability.

GOETHE

all wotild

be

HIS

and

over,

After

supper.

mother

alone."

The

house

in which

life

went

Jena, and

Then

was

he

hour

talk

to

But

he

once

"

household
Lotiise

Seidler

the

when

the

to

he

as

children

mann

the

on

till half

which

improvised

door, and

the

kept

o'clock."
occasion

Nibelungen

aloud

explanatory
he

had

sent

Christmas, made

at

late, for

an

time

one

some

tea

his mood.

ten

memoirs,

Another

on.

he

the

at

very

past

the

of

happened.

having

here, making

went

lantern

magic

for

"

when

suited

stayed

part of the

little company

normal

Graben

people

best

recalls,in her
a

"

to

aloud

very

often

other

apologizing

poet read

and

as

have

to

read

of Goethe

town,

of bed

out

would

haimt

silent, as

never

him

find

sitting down

so-called

in like
be

to

appears

we

the

in

come

or

family

this cheerful

university

would

FRIENDS

father

my

favourite

the

in

was

stood

on

WOMAN

the

supper,

my

to

AND

marks
re-

got hold
the

of

From-

pictures play

doggerel rhymes

fit

to

them.

had

Goethe
the
to

less, uniformly
lionize

him

evening

One

found
of

dread

funny

their

of

courteous

if

"

laugh

he

saw

those

to

be

when

that

he

they
378

he

whom

looked
were

was,

none

tried

who

would

Frommann's

party of students,
stories, but

to

they

only

Frau

at

he

curiosity, but

natural.

tea

table, he

told

up

number
to

devouring

meet

him

GOETHE

features
than

AND

and

fiery

innocent

that

"

it is also

an

Adolf

Stahr

endeavour

in

both

parties

with

away

"

in the
further
The

up

plain

facts

who

Goethe,

that

had

came

to

she

had

of

the

known

Jena

one

grown

childlike
treated

qualities.
him
1

with

the

Adolf

Stahr:

lasting

which

made

however,

plains
ex-

stance
circum-

Hamilton,

for January,

1876,

Herzlieb

from

into

woman

it

Yet

it

was

graceful
Heretofore
affectionate
Goethe's

380

be

to

appear

suddenly

delighted him;
its

Berlin

passion which

day and

beauty

with

case

Minna

enchanting.

womanliness

In

mystery."

magnificent,
that

this

Andrew

"

Review
"

the

aging
encour-

plausibility
every
and

be

to

and

deep

Minna,

matter,

Contemporary
clears

right,
a

his

his junior.

years

of

saying.
gain-

no

him, for

Duntzer,

this

is

means

miserable.
usual

bewitch

controlled

sides, and

his

relating to

kind

honest,

an

to

no

Lewes

and

on

very

by

blamed

story

he

both

acknowledged

was

is

George

in

there

that

so

Goethe

between

passion

Goethe,

has

out

spun

soft and

purpose

girl forty

set

to

essayist has

on

true

her, and

passion

rather

"

made

were

FRIENDS

everybody

at

for

inclination
as

eyes

bewitched

she

But

WOMAN

looked

and

That

blamed,

dark

great

way

you."

HIS

beautiful,

not

also

reserve

she

hood,
child-

discovered

"

was

that

only

her

her

intense

and

sweet,

had

respect due

Frauengestalten.

always
to

an

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S

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AUGUST

From

VON

the

painting

GOETHE.

by

Griinler.

MINNA

elderly and

he

but, after

"

indeed
had

singled

special notice,

him.

(Of

this

to

her

is not

famous

very

the

None
kind

clandestine
Goethe

Minna

in

her,
In

the

went

to

but

be

her
more

Lewes

she

to

there

was

stay
than

four
she

Goethe."

to

for her

passion

for the

was

she

Stahr
of

his

he

sent

only
age.

them

to

has

the

elabor

affection
the

for

From-

from
"

her

herself, by
as

he

it

girl

by

Jena!

to

the

change

From-

intimacy
to

seems

cured

to

came

return

by writing Elective Affinities.

381

poems.

yoxmg

dangerous

truth, however,

poet,

until

Jena

the

wrote

sister's wedding;

her

before

he

charming

lengthened

up

and

beautiful

the

kept

deliberately cured

of her

and

very

attend

break

The

man,

Minna,"

to

years

was

Goethe

all contained, quite frankly,

1808,

Ziillichau

in order

with

which

some

of

Spring

says

manns

know,

passion

at;

which

remembrances
we

as

later

have

Her

attribute

secret

no

letters

1807 and

affectionate

to

made

which

hero-worshipping
to

relation

Herzlieb;

manns

the

girl at

in certain

Selig,

latter's death.)

with

love

evidence

fascinating

very

"

did, for

now

secretly in

marvelled

wont

was

gentleman

he

as

Christiane

be

to

old

out,

fell

less,it is ridiculous

of

rated.

"

and

dear

is irrefutable

the

dependent

poor

greatly

so

her

she

friend

light since

to

come

there

the

as

rather

letters

she

distinguished guest;

very

of him

speak

to

HERZLIEB

be

of

himself

that

scene,

of his

GOETHE

His

was

much

Frau

Frommann

observes

in

to

he

1808,

WOMAN

of

Minchen's

oiir

such

that

dear

and

nature

forth

it is odd:

when

whom
their

or

of

being.

was

child, owing

as

much

best

vexed

are

love,

we

can

pleased

your

to

"We

be

foreseen

she

received

does

and

the

to

call

everywhere.

at

But

absence

of persons

fancy either them

never

So

much

of

her

assurance

your

June,

assurance

as

quite cheerful.

was

in

tone:

to

well

hers.

the
well-

salutations

send

her

the

statements

otir

and

wishes,"
further

To

who
from

Jena

keep

her

an

light
was

on

have

found

endeavotir,

reminiscences
this whole

good

deal

disturbed

Elective

model

of

Ottilie,is

novels

tells

that

us

part to

of the

indebted

are

at

Minna's

family

welcomed

Minna

Affinities,for which

English-speaking

famous

son

"

removal

family,

for
his

much

mother

prolonged
her

back

joy!

unmistakable

The

the

the

way,
we

"

mongers
scandal-

Frommanns'

the

on

of

Minna's

in

matter,

Certainly

absence.
with

refute

of Goethe's

out

whose

to

be

lively friendship

surroimdings

Be

for

you

It

gratifying

more

to

welfare.

we

we

Carlsbad,

paternal

most

than

rapid

from

yourself, would

feelings

FRIENDS

more

particularly grateful

were

to

HIS

recovery

Writing

AND

to

not

as

pleasant reading, especially

folk; it
be

served

was

translated
382

the
into

last

of Goethe's

English.

Yet,

HERZLIEB

MINNA

after

years

many

of

said

it

that

it

it

in which

representing

at

of

sanctity

belief

own

and

in

conscious

this

he

disloyal,

woman

upon

Though

it

the

treat

so-called

not

follow

"

bond

had

of

for

it

which

his
of

was

the

to

sense,

name.

genius

talk

to

he

to

much

of

Goethe

wrote

render

to

as

he

that

say

Passions,"

was

they

enamoured,

persons

Instead

and

ups

bestowed

the

fashion.

particular aim

to

lightly and

Rights

this

tiana
Chris-

varying degrees

flagrant

fashion

marriage

the

whose

he

the

is not

very

any

of

women

this

many

less

his

proved

had

years

or

more

several

whom

was

He

the

of course,

was,

through

her

to

became

in

idea

ductions
pro-

aimed

having

by tardily marrying

attractiveness, but

ever

of

twenty-eight

the

larger

of his

one

bond.

bond

with

seen,

The

idea.

During

have

of

was

marriage

together,

we

only

by sticking

downs.
were

he

an

the

the

was

himself

written, its author

was

book

that

did

fashion

wwfashionable.^
the

During
staying
^

the

Prof.

Kuno

third

other

ZuUichau

at

which

brings before

tragic conflict
continues,

"

between
while

hopelessness and
ruin

Goethe's

among

to

victory!

in

with
us,

the

elemental
Anna

annihilation

and

exception

equally
instinct

that

of

Tolstoi's

inexorable

and

moral

we

in Elective

Affinitieswe

383

are

her

he

says

Karenina

"

of

was

love

gives Elective Affinities

University
works

with

Herzlieb

curing herself

of Harvard

literary production,

nina,

Minna

and

Francke

place

when

years

knows
Anna

no

Kare-

truthfulness, the
law.

confronted
are

"

But,"

with

led from

he

utter

moral

GOETHE

for

of

but

marriage,

attached

to

to

mother,

at

to

acted

had

Minna

would

she

kept

this

to

proved

never

"

saw

after

her

death

gave

out

the

herself
she

(July
truth

consent

tiousness,
conscienSome

herself, this
but

gymnasium,

later

out

the

to

but

nothing,

It

friends

seems

that

marriage

to

her

and

temerity,

in

the

Spring

of

1821,

This

time

he

the

his

for

luck

Minna
beautiful.

He

third

time.

was

thirty-two

was

twenty

strikingly ugly, awkward

also,

pedant

and

and

384

now,

years

twice

twice

her

But

refused,
to
was

try
cepted.
ac-

still very

and

senior

undignified.

narrow-minded.

time

Jena, having
been

her

proposed

of

many,
Geras

some

of

some

matter.

Walch,

When
in

referred

1865),

she
have

be!

to

known

therein

lo,

Had

life would

became

said

of

love.

Professor

had

this

Selig,that

certain

she

and

heart,

for

it ttimed

of Goethe

wife," and

happy

usual

engaged

her

less tragic than

she

her

The

engagement.

except

marry

Life

family.

friend, Christiane

resolution

Lewes'

Mr.

become

nothing.
her

wrote

once

her

consulting her
to

came

good

with

offers

did

refused

Berlin

several

she

of

again

in

without

affair, also

while

off the

she

teacher

refused

however,

broke

afterwards

time

she

Minna,

once

FRIENDS

Silesian

marriage, and

time

WOMAN

after

young

man's

young

HIS

longer free,

no

man

AND

He

he

and
was,

stood

GOETHE

AND

he

that

know

head

coming

The

tragedy

ill-assorted

this

which

need

of, but

and

remained

she

A
and

is

"

paid

(1857) living, by
learn

to

the

me,"
at

Berlin

truth

about

he^

her

She

but

her

taU

slim

and

the

ease

of

least

twenty

just

come

was

glad
she

so

and

'

'

not

that

Goethe

with

sort

she

of

had

recognized
that

positively denied
Herr
The
appear

herself
she

had

look
of

eluded
my

in

our

She

again;
adroitly

question
But

Ottilie.

been

at

had

which

fashion

smile

embarrassed

spent

yet read.

into

Still, she

herself.

expressed

ceived
re-

seventy,

on

subject

not

coming

was

time

Goethe

on

then

was

her

first

had

she

which

but

complexion

made

book

to, of

Minna

blooming

The

temporary
Con-

anxious

the

bordering

her

us,

kindness, and

about

movements

Lewes'

"

extreme

younger.

was

out,

whether
she

her

she

affair.

then

was

"

the

in

step,

to

of Goethe

this

figure,

years

conversation

down

come

admirer

"with

says,

in Jena.

1853.

already referred

in conversation

engaged

once

by

was

in

in Zullichau, where

Minna

to

divorce
first

Hamilton,

article

mittently
inter-

the

died

has

during

years

take
he

from

together

upon.

tmtil

Andrew

by

quoted

ten

were

would

his wife

I tremble

me,

of the

dwelt

neither

Review
visit

to

interesting accotmt

very

FRIENDS

couple

be

not

talked

WOMAN

is not

foot."

to

HIS

removed

Lopper.

von

second

volume

in the

German

in which

The

translation

386

Elective

is spoken
Affinities

till late in the

Autumn

of did

of 1857.

MINNA

Jena

from
sent

back

many

of

You

had

never

When

She

I laid

stress

fifty-eighth year

she

repUed

young;

had

did

she

looked

back

no

recollections

in her

and

voice
her

sent

ever

but

neither
of
of his

pleasant

letters

nor

printed

At

poems.

volume

of poems
which

paper

May

22d, 1817
known

not

was
"

As

saw

have

to

feU

the

me

which,

"

turned

conversation

it, and

gave

on

that

at

been
the

over

was

387

next

copied

on

addressed

to

poems

quite

at

the
in

ception
ex-

copy

and

rose,

the

piece

of

strophe of
of

of

sessed
pos-

room

time

leaves

had

she

that

written

the

had

Goethe

dedication

of the

many

she

to.

she

his, with

the

when

themselves

request, she

from

referred

she

had

my

stepping briskly, fetched

that

of

he

Unaffected

declared

he

said

period,

ones.

poems

lines which

some

She

expressed

and

sonnets

in

always

her, and

denied

She

looks.

the

age.'

that

on

enthusiasm,

almost

veneration,

and

him

on

been

was

toward

amiable

most

she

poems

eighteenth,

Goethe

his

Goethe

having
in her

'

marking,
re-

print.

in

was

observe

not

been

always

she

animation:

with

you

while

her,

that

Goethe's

on

that

deny

of the

them

met

says,

to

remember

several

that

she

Lewes

as

dedicated

were

adding
until

of,

not, however,

did

always

must

seen

account

sonnets

poet,' and

was

his

school.

Goethe's
*

"

Goethe's

on

to

HERZLIEB

the

visit,

my

Minna.

book,

contained

home

in

our

in

them,

GOETHE

knew
a

AND

number

line, could

of them

supply

nearly

were

and

she

and

in-law, who
end

excite

to

the

like

the
the

as

At

Minna.

the

her

Her

whole

gtiided the

doubtless,

Afterwards,
Goethe
asked

at

the

recollections

in

exhibition
her

to

lend

conduct

nothing

'

Sir:

the

me

Being
from

Zullichau
coidd

till

not

to

you

that

to

"

the

book

words

to-day beg
I

fulfil your
has

for

this

it will

seeming

be

"

'

ZiJLLiCHAU,

my

'

Great

be

for

With

Minna

you
many

Walch

April 27, 1861.'

388

the
and

in the

absence

from

letter, I

your

for my

ability
in-

propensities known

the

would

disobligingness.
"

refused

is the

as

its contribution

easy

for

Minna

indulgence

to

me,

undertaking

to

She

by

your

do,

sister-in-law.

wish.

magnificent
reason,

wrote

answering

sooner

which,

preparations

volume.

prevented

yielding, as

"

the

for

the

an

seemed

I knew

of

Berlin, I

following characteristic

"

of

time

sister-

time, put

consideration

malady,

mental

lashes,
fully
grace-

...

about

eyes

long

girl.

time

that

brown

whole, reserved

young

room

conversation,

their

quoted

conversation

on

was,

when

honest,

by

on

in the

was

the

to

entered

and,

Her

covered

almost

"

heart

rest.

delicately, she

bashful

FRIENDS

WOMAN

by

the

always

though
and

HIS

"

but

worth

to

small.

to

pardon

regards,
Herzlieb.

your

For
my

HERZLIEB

MINNA

Nor

Herr

was

found

family

left

she

will

her

to

number

of

family

interest

to

both

in
"

which, in Minna's

on

paper,

old

dear

of

circle

"

the

it

many

the

by

the

familiar

1807;"

20,

in Goethe's

was

with

in

room,

third,

the

handwriting,

but

had

lines, which

first four

underneath

off;

June

Wachsthum

without

blue

our

on

persons,

"

sonnet

in

gentleman

written,

was

doubt,

no

folded

soul, plucked

inmost

his

in

thoughts

fine

flower

hand,

and,

great deliberation

With

of

of Goethe

dried

things

mementoes

second,

of his ;

first,a drawing

other

several

three

women,

By

died.

contained, besides

and

letters

at

Frommann

the

of

member

was

hospital

she

year,

it

that

insane

an

parcel which

sealed

to

her

later, her

years

violence

there, in less than

and

Gorhtz,

her

take

to

necessary

obtain

to

Three

such

with

returned

disorder

old

exhibition.'^

the

for

picture

able

Lopper

von

"

date

been

clipped

December

13,

1807, Midnight."
is

It

flower
Minna's

is

one,

wrong

wholly

accurate

in

Jena, but

in

had

the
well

she

possessed

no

inasmuch

in

ones;

Carlsbad.

sonnet

with

date

the

her

in

her

this

as

the

dried

shows

that

great poet

June, 1807,

he

not

that

the

fact

possession

does

not

to

writing of Goethe's

Von

but

Lopper
the

were

was

Moreover,

declaration

389

with

of the

memories

sentimental

not

she

that

unfortunate

monize
harthat

lines in

GOETHE

AND

book.

the

Yet

could

Goethe

nattirally,been
the

herself

she

was

student,

the

and

loved

she

said,
weak

so

reason

for

her.

him

as

To
she

this

at

latter."

lived,"

the

did, and

her

time

very

are

in

more

reading.

"

contains

it than

no

he

Goethe's Minchen:

Karl

loved
in

years

and

former

knew

my
may

the

fact

when

her

she

scatheless

of Goethe's
a

sin

her

to

There

love

just

love

to

ing
suffer-

secret

is

"

Theodor

390

"

even

did

and

though

not
Gaedertz.

there

in

in

myself

not

get

may

anyone

that

nothing

I have

which

added,

incident

had

it is to

Eckermann,

to

once

be

hers

speaking of

the

owe

by

pitiful.

suffered.

But,"

we

allusions

un-

girl-friend,

strong

so

and

to

not

later life.

academic

perilous period
appeared

it

said

he

her

she

Perhaps

that

coeur.

that

In

afraid

herself

temptation

her

to

are

often

am

Affinitiesthrough

Elective

letters

quite clear.

her

understand

emotions

my

also

Goethe

much

"

through

passage

her

understand

flee from

must

experiences of
to

curacy
ac-

in its outlines

by, dviring his

the

did

she

that

bltmred

early

entire

poet had,

Mantettffel, whom

that

quite overbear

with

bered,
remem-

affaires du

for the

deal

nature

young

been

Jena,

good

Selig,^make

Christiane

various

be

will

relate

age,

of Minna's

came

passionate

his

trying emotional

very

That

FRIENDS

himself, it

of

details

passion

this

WOMAN

not, in his old

the
And

HIS

the

is

single
story

actually happen,
Bremen,

1887.

MINNA

nothing happened
sad

as

could

be

of

she

that

and

than

called

have

novel,

whoever
a

exactly

Ottilie's

was

scarcely

HERZLIEB

tragic

as

fate, Minna

more

said, with
"

Fate

loves

has

me

lot like my

Yet,

Herzlieb's

may

bright.

Truly

enough

the

young

heroine

not

cannot

own."

391

related."

is there

sweet

dealt

kindly with

expect

anything

me

else

CHAPTER

XV

MARIANNE

Among

the

the
a

out

Suleika
of

poet

ward

the
be

to

the

East

time

the

had

the

kisses

two

Willemer

might

poet's

the

his

where

He

was

well

was

be

and

ardent

father

given

he

was

his

had
a

patent

his

also

392

his

and
of

rianne
Ma-

one,

embraces

which

whom

Goethe

one

Eleven

friend.

been

to

nobility

until

years

in

Frankfort,

banker.

Unlike

bom

prosperous
of

logical

paper.

man,

call

to

only

unwilling

not

on

^-

remarkable

proud

jtmior,

not

of

lyrics

husband

the

and

exchanged

poets

attachment

Willemer

Thus

the

Willemer;*

the

was

first

was

charming

between

place.

herself

she

Jacob

his

none

Goethe

friendly

which

relation

passionate

the

Johann

in

witness,

When

poet's

wedding,

taken

was

of

life

and

Marianne

of

oured
hon-

Willemer,

Divan

gifts.

celebrated

of

ward,

wife

later

von

Westbstlicher

the

and

Goethe's

Marianne

as

marked

the

outcome

the

the

not

by

came

of

remembered

of

acquaintance

and

but

clearly

very

the

made

friends

so

WILLEMER

be

to

women

beloved

as

stands

VON

some

years

later.

GOETHE

AND

HIS

familiarly called,

was

Willemer's

his

the

"

the

gossips wagged
who,

man

forty, of

Willemer
the

all the

time

and

into

the

shooting

near

So
with

Marianne

and

and

Christiane

the

poet's mother

Christiane

went

house,

to

Vulpius

there
in

Frankfort
394

passed,

growing
hood,
woman-

ually
grad-

Brammy,

the

to

with

and

home

callow

into

Willemers

Main,

upper

generously.

came

if she

as

bank

the

Goethe

turbed
dis-

mother

place, called

them,

died,
to

on

this

at

been

years

house

town

entertained
came

have

his age.

blooming

more

country-seat

Offenbach,

half

the

only

still

was

his

of

tongues

lanky boyhood

their

about

quite

his

girls in

of the

say

Marianne's

intervals

and

from

up

charming

bermiihle, they

the

them

adoption, by

than
to

and

forsaken."

son

Besides

youth.
had

not

at

more

one

the

girl less

this;

with

to

the

over

appears

plays,

of

deal

widowed,

yotmg

hood
woman-

art.

and

usefully employed

writing

to

into

severely censured

was

twice

child
"

been

never

great

of sixteen

receive

in

joyously

of

any

visit her

to

grow

mother

though

by
came

had

her

however,

Willemer,

had

"

lovely

to

to

Marianne

for

age

and

music

arrangement.

forsaking

the

there

Frankfort

course

FRIENDS

girls and

own

special training in
Of

at

came

household,

with

WOMAN

the

Once,

with

alone,

fore
be-

August

visit,and

September,

Ger-

1808,

when
and

Willemer's

GOETHE.

From

the

painting

by

Heinrich

Museum,

Kolbe

now

Cologne.

in

the

Wallraf-Richartz

MARIANNE

doors

again

were

thanks

of

for

the

in

and
is

1814,

to

revisit

the

to

from
a

the

first

rainbow.

shone
he
' '

"

sollst
Dich

Doch

They

"

"

but

du,

had

To

Haare

du

been

395

summer

tions
anticipaied
accompan-

he

drove

it is

sure

the

none

the

Greis,

weiss,

lieben."

married

two

less

poet in him

betriiben,

wirst
then

be

it is

muntrer

nicht

opportunity

had

that

in

out

bright skies in which

by which

gleic-hdie

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GOETHE

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MARIANNE

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marriage, Goethe

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^Briefwechsel

Goethe und

sentimental
between

affection
Marianne

398

than

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in any

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Willemer, Stuttgart, 1 877.

GOETHE

AND

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ich

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MARIANNE

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WILLEMER

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GOETHE

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woman

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own

about

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enthusiasm

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months

Goethe,

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for

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headquarters,

Goethe
402

tore

the

himself

matter

away

MARIANNE

Gerbermuhle.

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interchange

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WILLEMER

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letter

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GOETHE

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came

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listening

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to

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week-end.

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telling him

of

visit it was,

ideally pleasurable
Boisseree

WOMAN

sadness

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at

by

moonlight
When

they

MARIANNE

did

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to

go

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VON

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Boisser^e
chamber

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good

the

sight

Goethe

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the

of

talk

had

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that

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their

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her."

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if Marianne

distance,

day

of

order

in

new

that

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and

Hammer's

songs

poetic

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it

at

all

were

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on

leave, the

to

for

think

us

Suleika

ever.'

reference

intense

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together.

love

dear

earnestly

have

make

to

out

Bielschowsky

morning.

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words

the

however,

his

and

poet

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would

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sketch

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of

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however,

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clearly!

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having

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Marianne

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out

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more

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this

experiment

taper.

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to

therefore, stepped

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them
a

Goethe

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wax

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to

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chance

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amusing

an

occasion

gave

WILLEMER

and
songs

he

answered

expressive

GOETHE

the

of
new

AND

deepest

WOMAN

FRIENDS

emotion.

now,

songs,

scarcely

HIS

Every
of

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Marianne's

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distinguishable

day

those

being

of

the

great

poet.
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his wife

and

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was

his

by

the

German

daughter
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his

songs

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his
he

fourth

friends

in

the

The

moon

reunion
themselves
thereafter.

together
for

and
to

think
Both

again

and

the

Goethe
the

East

changed

poem

among

eagerly expecting

whole
and

day

than

sooner

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unexpectedly,

wieder

dich

and

of each

last visit the poet

as

evening

Goethe

rapture

at

thereupon

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406

at

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"

Herz!

Reunion."

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Heidel-

the

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translation

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ich

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ing
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poem

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es

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printed

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voiced

of

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though

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to

beautiful

woman,

the

WiUemer

yearning

most

Wind,"

own

that

arranged

full

every

might

never

the

went

to

his

beloved

moon

be

Castle
another

AND

GOETHE

passion

found

as

the

glorious

verses

her

love

for

him

he

fire but

confessed

feeling well;
for

Wurzburg
like

instead

the

good

his way,

on

steadily

as

he

Naively

Duke

rejoiced
he

ever

again,

"

did

that
which

not

you

you

more

explanation
be

from

away

to

he

and

be

to

me

from

That

of

happy

than

if I

were

yourself planted and

I go

over

408

in

the

always

was

the

the

poet

reason

occasion

in the

contained

Friend:

vividly

house, that

this

on

your

Goethe's

by

that

Frankfort,

Willemer

sent

he

reason

him

increased.

overtaken

Frankfort

near

go

real

of

way

spiritsrose

of this

whom

set

Sulpiz,

FranMort

Jagemann,

drew

by

accompanied

Goethe's

that

the

must

FranMort.

was,

would

But

go

out

not

was

he

would

from

an

he

Esteemed

of
see

as

that

seems

which

Dear,

mindful

distance

he

why

letter

the

he

records

avoid.

as

that

he

Caroline

to

he

read

wonted

he

that

through

and

assigns

and

anxious

of

friend

fear

lessening

that

all his
that

the

able.
inevit-

course

with

announced

adding

home,

poured

of

was

he

as

Marianne

Boisser^e

to

he

soon

shoulders

his

write

to

Divan

wonderful

temporarily, feel

reaction

continued

He

the

in

which

in
a

FRIENDS

might

he

lifted from

of years

weight

WOMAN

expression

Though

poetry.

out

HIS

or

ing
follow-

Heidelberg:

am

constantly

surroundings,
there

your
memory

the

groves

airy yet

stantial
sub-

again and

MARIANNE

all the

again

doubtless
from

when,

as

until

those

and

all

raay

toward

had

plans

walking
the

My

the

other
he

what

had
his

without

direct

"

belief

firm

happy
spoil

such

'

WiUemer

gluckUch

pair).
marriage

Goethe

und

his

That
was

Marianne

von

409

seen

resolution,
Willemer

was

Sioleika, and

might
thought
WiUemer,

It

poet.

verbunden

more,

it.

and

he

once

"

hence

longings

my

."

though

man

that

beneidenswerth

do

is

ance
resist-

and

way

admirable

to

was

honourable

an

his

Marianne

friend,

was

promptly

himself

set

with

and,

do

must

ing
hasten-

am

consolation

only

had,

in

Muhl-

the

behind.

Goethe

words

on

joining

on

In

of

me

prince

even

prescribed

I leave

whom

as

again,

you

my

and

upset

innocently

more

those

with

caprice and

in

fancies

celebration

are

meet

assigned

perhaps

ished
ban-

often

see

duty

days

Main,

without

should

the

Wurzburg.

that

am

anniversary

via

fact

I must

self
your-

be

cannot

hundred

where

the

these

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had

charming

some

home
the

and

brilliant

berg.

and

side, you

your

and

spots

have

yesterday

Rhine

that

shady

how

spending
the

enjoyed by

feel; for, certainly, I

there.

to

WILLEMER

pleasure, consideration, kindness

I have

love, which

you

VON

Marianne
"

(a

by

most

any

68.

was

were

full of
p.

he

viably
en-

chance

horror!

GOETHE

The

poems

But

the

mer

or

AND

of

latter

of

by

the

married

has

think

of

In

the

and

and

comfort

he

should

he

needed.

during

that

Willemers'

home,

sometimes

came

after

Frankfort

come

to

must

yield

the

him,

urge

time

for

to

the
his

in

his

temptation
holiday

it

and

arrived
410

and

was

But

she

summer

seemed
go.

he

would

an

Goethe

woman-fashion,

always

the

Marianne

OttiHe

Each

again.

to

Frankfort

wife

innocent

and

subsequent

of

in

quiet
tation
temp-

occasionally
husband

ever

the
the

Gerbermuhle.

the
met

never

resisted

Goethe

visit

pathetic
sym-

than
for

to

"

Goethe's

many

went

the

able

her!

them

me

at

be

to

more

during

worthy

at

and

he

for

being

not

were

that

news

upon

to

married,

guest

Marianne

would

to

had

August

ever-welcome
and

the

and

now

painful

though,

But

as

is

as

come

Goethe

August

summer.

letters

were

Willemer's

died

friends

only

berg
Heidel-

wealth

spring Christiane

that

with

following the

one

your

Wille-

to

That

to

are,

you

letters.

wistfulness.

well, "It

little

Frankfort
anxious

addressed

said, they

reply

dear

love

the

friendship, marked

been

happy

your

the

been

in

not

How

aU

eighteenth

says,

did

as

of involuntary

December

Marianne

spend

has

as

touch

piano.

FRIENDS

pair jointly and,

affectionate

parting

to

almost

were

the

to

merely

then

WOMAN

continued, however,

exception,

one

HIS

as

But

to

if he

when
deliber-

MARIANNE

ately

his

set

great

Goethe's

"

Willemer

Marianne's

and

of

name

the

upon

cared, that

still

reading,

been

Buck

the
been
of

the

have

his

and

close

by herself
with

Goethe

at

to

once

only time,

them,

letter

"

poet's

heart.

of

uncontrollable

her.

She
and
lines

few

replied in
the

tells

"

she

though
411

"

Du

is

desires.

for the

"

occurs

only

now

reach

to

ardently

written

to

draw

to

she

how

the letter where,

passionate

which,

so

her

appears

that
him

to

Goethe

longing

him

instructs

much

with

visit

be

to

Moreover,

this

of

had

and

so

talked

in her

sheets

wished

meant

and

seen

had

remembrances

she
had

which

account

Baden

the
at

the

recently

awakened

Goethe

love

in

had

Weimar

Womanlike

he

She

her

"

these

by

sionately
pas-

that

proof

sent

winds

called

forgotten.

had

he

her

July,

the

her

assure

not

which

for
in

to

love

long before, the

not

still lived

husband

and

had

past."

that

to

from

Then,

former

poet

he

Suleika

happy

her

her

their

or

were

however,

self-restraint

profotindly moved

assured

at

threw

were

Willemer

to

herself.

for

them.

1819

replies

spoke,

how

with

year

either

They
as

the

the

fall

the

Willemers

been

to

up

Frau,"

well

the

in

have

to

addressed

suddenly

she

tell the

letters

und

as

819,

not

In

direction.

would

hand.

husband

WILLEMER

another

regret

invariably

almost
to

in

letter

his

was

Though

face

affectionate

an

VON

first

between
a

month

AND

GOETHE

before

his

fire

any

as

long

seventieth

silence, he
for

her

that

she

think

of

treble

assurance

"

words,
But

of

her

Oh

that

Christmas

at

Goethe

1822, when

in

was

passion for Ulrike

cheerful
soon

the

as

the

missives

friendship again and

In
to

the

call at

the

hand

aged

had

numbered,
1

See

und

Marianne

412

his

sorbing
ab-

but

as

took

up

did

the

side.
had

von

Eckermann

sent

thus

it

up

from

was

the

sad

time

Some

his

make

to

to

Marianne's

his death

last.

that

of

gladly

received

begun

Goethe

throes

until

Marianne

feeling

poet,

tone

birthdays.

on

unanswered,

and

his

on

usual

he

1824 he

breathed

poise

either

Gerbermuhle
that

Goethe

his
not

on

of

summer

friendly
when

flag

time

regained

poet

correspondence

the

for

were

the

references

Levetzow,

von

in

outbreaks

by

the

and

with
"

their

and

him

constantly

together!

friendliness, varied

gifts exchanged

have

closes

resumed

now

fully,
beauti-

double

beats

be

feelings

so

to

the

passionate

more

letters

his

him,

letter

might

no

side.. The

affectionate

In

The

we

were

heart

his

So

maintaining

glad

send

to

heart;

is

of

Stein.

of

to

and

hastens
that

there

either

he

said

has

much

as

conceal

to

of him

thinks

her

to

answer

she

that

now

it
von

desirous

felt bound

he

in

Frau

to

seemed

says,

but

sent

ever

Marianne

as

has

birthday,

he

that

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

news

before

months

might

be

into

packets

the

Willemer,

p.

ii8.

MARIANNE

letters

in

the

to

his

the

his

approaching

not

until

Eckermann

relation

stand

from

him

was

much

that

he

she

combined

needed

soul

and

gaiety

of

that

she

deeply

loved

him, too, in that

and

generous

for
so

her
she

herself

knew

how

best

to

come

413

of

earnestness

in

Gqethe

of many
to the

Italian,
warm

children

delightful reading,

are

the

Goethe

him, for

all things

letters

Her

kept always

been

to

like

was

capable

was

daughters

husband's

way

Italy and

friendships.

have

stimulate

and

She

she

could

friendship.

give

to

rare

heart.

like

of

able

who

generously

so

wonderful

cheer

quite

ful
beauti-

much."

very

to

did
Then

and

must

received

become
a

letters

One

him

to

peculiarly

in

had.

you

who

indeed,

intimate

so

of

containing these

note

had

one

have

was,

Marianne

with

as

the

Frankfort.

to

one

reminder

any

evoke,

way

relation

must

Theirs

him

and

something;

their

give this dear

knew

must

anyone

to

such

in

3,

geschrieben."
to

he

them

Scarcely

die's

which

find

sent

"

lines:

March

Lieben,

bear

death

later

contained

for it, on

meiner

not

pain

soon

them

return

packets

wrote

Fingern

could

too

he

Augen

den

he

since

these

to

beginning

die

Zu

of

and

lines

"Vor

But

One

letters

83 1, eight

WILLEMER

possession, intending

senders.

Marianne's
1

VON

heart

close

to

of

young

child

and

people.

GOETHE

she

While

AND

"

circle

relation

The

FRIENDS

she

young

dear

as

between

of

and

affection,perfect sympathy

trust.

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his

little

dear,

You,

Clever, do
But

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are

it not,

won

human

no

Willemer

who,

believes

that

that

me,

dear, God

bounty

not

was

however,

the

call

and

ahead

century
what

often

have

her

laughed

which

of Bernard

Shaw

'Willemer

loved

three

favourite

make

march

dogs which

It must

dogs

when

Goethe

have
was

been

their

wished

their

wont

satire

414

He

was

not

of

on

festival

fond

must

state

is

fable's

trial to the Willemers

guest.

ing
render-

married

bearing in his mouth

a

they

worthy
literary

always sheltered

home

was

anne
Mari-

clever

ideal

of the

be

conception

the

over

wife,

about

were

and

mean

much

Marianne

in procession, each

of his
should

He

The

and

husband,

love

them.

though
animals

wife."

their

of the

gave

exemplified all around

as

in

time

life,

me.

motherhood

together

Marianne

for the

should

marriage

true

it to

gifts. They

their

of

him

heart?

German

activity.

own

to

all my

thy

given
loving

grateful

wifehood

develop

to

hath

mutual

expressed

of

won

ordinary

of woman's

measure

deep

meant

crown

comes

an

while

and

rendered:

solace, the

my

men

be

was

comradeship,

Marianne

might

which

verse

in

husband

birthday Willemer

of all that

appreciation

in

"

thirtieth

her

congenial

tender

her

known

was

grandmother,"

her

really exqtiisite one

WOMAN

still very

was

family

the

HIS

two

or

occasion
of

message
to suppress

of trick

to
gratulation.
con-

their

puppies.

CHAPTER

poet's

THE

He

seventy-four

was

his

all

at

get

it when

of

her

life

to

chasing

it

the

In

him

family

had

towards

naively

anxious

episode

for
who
and

out

is not

deliberately
and

(! ), made

precious

dogs^

1899,

the

the

It

express

besieged
the

print

at

distorted

Ulrike,

it

secret.

bom

o"

gravestone

her

fate

that

she

Sophia
park

bearing

in

the

to

found

Duchess

comer

ago

the

find

whole

this

Eckermann;

years

then

was

it to

Levetzow,
13,

one

with

his

only

was

business

is said

castle

details

that
of

purpose

her

who

of

out

this

affaire.

von

Grand

'

of

Goethe

reporters
to

November
and

of

guard

piquant
Ulrike

of

as

dozen

away

eagerness

most

she

married

honestly,

was

truth

several

kept

of

the

talking
only

she

he

and

have

attitude

inasmuch

easy

died

time

her.

marry

To

LOVE

the

wotild

the

and

passion;

to

each

for

been

not

last

at

she

Yet

seventeen.

it

XVI

these
a

of

favourites
name.

416

1804,
which
had

Saxony
were

succumbed
awaits

on

us

bequeathed
Goethe's

honoured

after

all,
to

let-

death

ULMKE

VON

LEVETZOW.

SCHILLER.

From

the

portrait by

Jager.

THE

to

ters

her

and

to

in

the

Goethe

printed

account

relation
"

which

It has

that

Jahr-Buch

about
to

has

any

She

quite

related

often

'

Schiller's:

or

her
years

at

been

also

been

circle in

which

that

she

liked

did

Prince,

the

came

stood, and,
Arbeit

417

January,

she
1904.

towards

Several

which

directly
ere

take

Teplitz

in
to

when

not

friendly

was

barrassed
em-

understand

conversation.

Mother

better, his

well

very

very

in

her

as

greatly

once

she

always

the

poet in Carlsbad.

was

poems

invited, he

Deutsche

which

inadvertently answered,

given by

therefore,

mother,

my

the

remained

she

written

recall

can

know

when

afterwards

large party

had

to

engaged

often

and

knew

erroneous

I will,

and
.

I don't

this,but

all the

Schiller's I feel.' Goethe

either; but
offence

when

Goethe, Schiller and

well

poet whose

the

her

matter.

having

at

by

own

light, of

have

all that

knew

came

woman,

asked

the

on

grandparents

young

that

gainsaid.

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down

Duke

is her

reflect,"she begins,
time

the

and

me

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been

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1900.

to

to

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write

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of

with

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it cannot

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come

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me

memory

and

accounts

for

than

since

made

true

will

have

poet.

often

LOVE

which

mother

has

the

to

Goethe

her

interesting, however,

more

"

LAST

POET'S

up

had

at

Goethe
to

the

noticed

GOETHE

his

AND

exclusively with
bear
told

them

which

"

as

in

months

with

some

then

was

beautiful

most

his residence

in

how

Grandmother

sent

was

old

an

The

me.

interrupted
But,

of

"As

also, sat, the

Ulrike.'

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Goethe

into

came

latter

Goethe

an

taken

her,

up

perfect

wished

the
there

to

well

very

had

and

that

me

me

and

acquainted.

who

please

and

largest

with

told

her

with

bad
Marien-

had

to

message

see

as

it

just begun.

promptly.
the

said,
shook

where

room,
'

This

hands

Ulrike, January

"^

p.

the

became
come

pass

resort

remember,

to

me

together

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first

the

I went

my

pension

my

there.

of

one

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some

to

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course,

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summons

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might

we

place.

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letter^

refers

in

1821

grandparents

for

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to

earlier

not

he

me

Weimar,'

brought

who

servant

that

the

conversed

had

well.

in

brought

there, and

distinctness,

reproaches

Goethe

Goethe

my

Stadt

'

house,

ova

many

she

small, almost

he

of his earlier years.

star

order

belong only

can

which

Goethe

from

had

Strassburg

had

knew

know

Mother

voice

because

received

to

came

whither

she

briUiant

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friends

that

I later

mother

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FRIENDS

After

her.

her

from

WOMAN

Levetzow.'

little

my

'

arrival, exclaimed,

to

in

HIS

7.

418

9,

is my

with

1823;

Mother,

my

elder
me

Goethe

daughter,
in

friendly

Jahr-Buch XXI,

THE

fashion

and

I had

asked

passed

nothing

and

great poet he

of

replying

quite without
the

the
of

presence

said that
and

tell him

aU

about

establishment

declined

however,

missing
first time

that
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had

no

examine

interest

for

about
"

hours
many

on

I knew

him

too

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or

when

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him

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and

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me.

wont

was

evening

the

before

to

myself

he

often

told

me

objects.
what

I learned

well

glad

from

with

with

he

the

this

he

noticed

which
was

for

that

him

go

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bench

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time

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the

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the

carefully, though

be instructed
sat

in

he

educational

studying.

was

didn't

morning

convinced

am

took

when

flowers, for

me

himself

he

morning

the

in

me

Goethe

some

that

interested

concerned

on

every

brought

gentleman,

Soon

been

whom

and

"

walking, and

went

had

rassment
embar-

seized

him

ground

from

ingenuousness

time

with

the

"

separated

childlike

often

Strassburg and

on

sister

my

walk

which

at

old

acquaintances.
a

and
man

without

friendly

shyness which

take

old

famous

quite

was

the

to

new

I must

"

pension

years

what

"

Since

French

seventeen

Goethe,
was,

Marienbad.

in

years

only

was

LOVE

I liked

last few

knew

in

LAST

how

me

the

Strassburg,

at

POET'S

and

was

embarrassed.
419

on

great

he

man

too

good

Nor

did

terms

it

occur

was

with
to

AND

GOETHE

least

anyone,

of the

out

enough
of

be

to

all to

in the

way

child,

of

as

friendly, amiable
might

ttire

she

took

well

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"

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edition

bad.

he

that

told

this

Goethe

to

earlier

volume

wasn't

what

book

for

I needed

to

I did

not

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would

many

of

the

make
"

As

letters

happened

me

the

that

that

tell

as

regretted that
he

recited

interest

greater
about

me

the

understand

to

narrative

notes

it,

which

it.

than

people

fuss.

much

came

and

read

rather

I since

of much

seen.

give

said

would

order

have

this

been

circle

our

increased
often

so

often

down

have

in

know

to

not

to

he

he

sented
pre-

at Marien-

began

him

asked

that

Goethe

I had

what

Whereupon

me,

How

write

to

and

also.

WanderJaJire.

now

allusions

on

ing.
enchant-

preceded it, since

have

must

and

stars

so

him

to

and

crea-

Wanderjahre,

sent

me

especially if

that

been

it to

gave

young

him,

Meister's

had

make

could

summer

something

often

came

he

such

was

flowers, trees,

in

Wilhelm

of which

When

I fotmd

that

same

with

me

new

gentleman

to

old

companionship

Goethe

which

that

was

in the

feel drawn

anything

see

by this. man,

was.

then

lively interest

to

pleasure taken

old

very

FRIENDS

mother,

my

grandfather,

my

"

WOMAN

HIS

of
to

acquaintances

know

many

that, when
420

bad

in

young

weather

Marienbad

girls,and

it

prevented

GOETHE

AND

fancy, for

own

Many

me.
.

and

year,

he

with

to

the

imposed
"

now

my

house,
'

name

and

house

talked

of it

become

Weimar;

in

me,

how

Weimar

"

first

giving

my

that

who
to

stayed

said

at

that

parents
grand-

seen

us

of

that

thing.

as

this

us

to

Goethe.

me

At

Goethe,
But

the

again, presented
light; told

attractive

most

in

came

suggested

thought

again and

422

or

my

all

to

marry

of such

order

year

already

first

greatly he,

in

cannot

time, received

often

the

to

even

that

had

who

think

he

with

joke and

not

I should

distinguish
a

was

Weimar,

friendly

I should

that

indeed, in the

me,

in

nature

this

that

gracious
he

was

it for

took

Diike

how

me

meet

Goethe,

and

very

it

certainly, would

it to

to

for

of

I have

mother

fanuly

my

Duke

however,

very

was

time, also, and

Grand

good

in

was

not, before

was

rny

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it

Weimar.'

Duke

children.

we

approached

fails me,

know,
had

Stadt

and

first

become

refused
his

as

that

to

often

befriended

so

which

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to

desired

never

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the

I do

Marienbad.

and

Marienbad

was

he

whether

previously

the

memory

the, following that

the

them

him, often

rightly remember

our

of

fatherly love for

to

came

matter;
to

and

upon.

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had

aU

FRIENDS

great

Goethe,

brought

WOMAN

people

acquainted

those

had

nearly

as

manage

HIS

lady of
the

the

prince, would

parents,
I

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might

at

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not

be

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separated

from

them

every

possible

of the

matter

her

if I felt at

'

was,

make

to

I cannot

whether

he

of

stood
to

house

the

I would

do

alone

his

son,

him,

who
a

marry.'

spoke of the

family

from

was

matter

for

of

place
doesn't
and

my

in the
be

should

need

and

me,

grandparents

I have

either

if

ful
help-

be

lives

and

Goethe

am

has, however,

He

bear.

father, and

I could

it left.

423

the

reflect.

to

be

sister

to

splendid

so

Goethe.'

whose

to

me

to

me

marry

married

mother,

answer

by yourself

him.

He

there.

hard
So

has

replied

reflect

thought

accept

if I went

be very

me

having placed

time

I would

to

asked

for

young

must

any

death,

not

Her

it.

offer is

could

and

outlive

offer.

the

case

as

promised

marriage,

and

too

it without

need

into

are

You

Goethe,

separation

would

wish,

I would

with

usurping

the

any

not

quite

him

through

to

I do

fond

very

in

you
'

accept

you.

much

latter's

matter

to

refuse

in

thalers.

the

yet, but

marry

the

daughters

about

me

he had

firmly resolved

her

child, you

my

question before

replied,

of

her

were

No,

that

had

talked

I should

after

me,

future

my

he

that

thousand

all inclined

you

one

on

of ten

any

spoke

if it

mother

probability

mother

over-persuade

that,

caring for

my

all

settle

my

she

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in

he would

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but

and

and, later, I heard

yearly pension
"

LOVE

LAST

"

way.

that, since

Goethe
a

POET'S

no

himself

mother

or

desire
never

to

me,

GOETHE

he

though

AND

wont

was

often, his dear

"

In

1823

Goethe

to

came

house

same

take

in

Amelie, who
who,
He

mother

know

it

much

day

early, that

Httle

calces, and

'

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said;
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'

we

he

did

Goethe

would
and

go

be

his

ivy

it shall
set

is

always

out

and

be

Goethe
424

to

us

tion
men-

Elbogen

to

he

as

let

he very

that

so

many

down

there

early
his

at

Goethe

the

pretty

turned

cup?'

friendship,' she

our

of
'

How

friendship.'
pretty,'he

precious souvenir
was

place

ivy wreath.

an

emblem

his hand.

Mother

us

him

while

of

the

always

to

said

was

said, 'Why

'

instead.

wish

came

which

reminded

this and

accepted, prepared hei

and

not

guests,

mother

be

sister

birthday and, since

breakfast

around

wotild

my
in

forbade

Goethe
to

the
and

us

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with

it for

may

of

share

had

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when

cup

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observed

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answered

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in

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breakfast

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to

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he

my

that

o'clock)

seven

had

lively, teased

ours.

pretty

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to

been

Carlsbad.

aloud, all except

before

day,

had

evenings

us

time

time, lived in

birthday, she

we

times

was

at

the

with

his

was

more

or,

short

use

always

very

wished

(about

to

and

perceived

The

it.

days

reading

in Carlsbad

was

my

In

was

darling

only

resolutely refused

she

as

us

us.

turns

him
had

for

us

with

with

dinner

with

mother

my

his

me

daughter.

were

as

FRIENDS

WOMAN

call

to

little

we

Marienbad,

HIS

very

gay

to

the

me.'
whole

THE

long, relating

day

earlier

his

with
to

POET'S

however,

stood

in

table

What

and

he

had

with

us

and

two

bring something

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and

Goethe

cake,

'

This,

dinner,' Mother

the

also,

observed
'

said.

he

of old Rhine

immediately

cake!

for

Mother,

beautiful

bottles

his

sent

feast.

out

time
dinner-

already

especially loved.

handsome

connected

pointing

Elbogen.

that

Goethe

the

on
'

it.

Carlsbad

birthday cake,

which

wine,

to

brought

had

veritable

incidents

many

everything fittingto

with

out

LOVE

us

interest

foimd

we

came

man

visits

of

objects

us

to

LAST

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to

answered

'

quietly, and
are
'

'

fond.'

so

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see

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so

how
yoiu-

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Mother
and

this

and

name

"

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did

not.

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upon

which

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to

gotten,
for-

and

us

this

laughed, thanked

Goethe

his

and

he

in

remarked,

friendly people

question

would

we

him

brought

man

which

kind

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all went,

we

answered.

it to remember

letters, about

expecting that

he

dear

wished

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over

'

'

you

ever.

was

reading them,

after

we

than

dinner
of

of the

'

of which

glass

names

always.'

gayer

package

great

are!

was

the

shall have

pleasant occasion
her and

beautiful

answered,
you

friend!

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about

wine

and

cake

But

him.

high spirits,back

to

Carlsbad.

"Already
before

the

from
house

distance

lot of

we

saw

on

people waiting

425

the
for

us

lawn

with

AND

GOETHE

As

music.

soon

night

good
with

Goethe

to

Goethe

it

again

question

us

yesterday
How

was,

was

should

fact's

I not,

the

in his

often:

can

only

that

they

those

in

days

mother

could

narrative
said

not

have

that

replied,
the

prevent
he

upon
there-

it the

christen

always

he

see

first

you,

heartily

to

such

his

Mother

couldn't

day

called

it

already said

I have

again what

say

delightful experiences

were

with

enjoyed

he, for

showed

long time, kept

he, too,

"

but

with

up

them.

this," Ulrike's

aU

think

we

spondence
corre-

regarded

so

about

more

concludes,

which

the

and

Goethe,

that

much

say

did

letters.

which
my

'

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We'U

upstairs

didn't

knew,

you

secret,' and

open

afterwards
"

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being printed?
'

You

and

we

said

us,

day, when

next

since

in
late

birthday?

my

exclaimed,
of

the

until

to

went

already

was

carriage Goethe

beckoned
and

'

to

FRIENDS

of the

out

Mother

Since

us.

WOMAN

got

we

as

surrounded.

was

'

HIS

already

have

enough."
lady's last word

The

that

there

was

friendship between
side

this

the

thing

After

yearly

was

the
more

probably
exceedingly

poet's death
and

more

the

on

no

but

love-bond
her

true,
hard
Ulrike

and
but
we

ant
only pleasOn

very
to

her

took

Goethe

that

to

eration
reit-

the

Goethe.

seems

devoted
426

is

matter

well

know.

have

grown

him,

for

she

THE

POET'S

carefully the

kept

and

her

his
in

honour

her

Goethe,

from

causing their
and

should

though

ashes

that

with

her

be

placed

great

on

in

obviously

silver

tents
con-

platter,

in

priceless

the

bade

their

enclosed

this

of

of

age

she

hand,

what

knew

given

place

of letters

then

giving orders

the
at

burned
be

to

be

to

one

she

had

castle, Teschib-

at

package

no

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were.

urn

end

bring her

servant

her

death

her

her

ninety-six, feeling

of

room

he

occupied

always

sleeping

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litz.

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little trifles

many

portrait

the

LAST

silver

memorial

casket,

which

"

done.

was

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the

leave

we

only

that

other

women

Ulrike

was

It is said

character.

"

secondary
she

"When
of

hers

soul

of

body

The
to

the

was

spoke
Goethe,

that,
not

bearing

attendants, always

like

singled

man

Will

herself

the

slip of

mere

through
which

her
knew

clear
not

along

in

of her

any

and

upright

marking,
re-

subservient

and

Spirit within

us."

girl this strong

soul

and

the

be

must

strong

very

well

the

special

for

out

helped by

be

of

most

when

even

and

love, adding

fine and

of very

would

nineties, she

the

this

creature

last

Levetzow,

von

whom

attention,

of Goethe's

story

blue
age,

eyes,

quickened

in

response.

Most
but

to

of
me

the

biographers

it does

not

seem

427

deprecate
necessary

this
to

episode,
take

an

"apologetic

the

close

should

The

it

assert

Woman-Soul

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and

yottng

very

girl.

highly fitting that

this

with

his greatest poem

"

charming

very

I find

contrary,

story
not

this

loved

man

when

Goethe

because

tone

FRIENDS

WOMAN

HIS

AND

GOETHE

on!"

428

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in its

leadeth

romance.

closing
us

his

old
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lifeDoes

lines that

AND

GOETHE

and

year,

always

which

WOMAN

his

on

the

has

HIS

birthday there

effect

fully informed

of

Perhaps, therefore,we

life.

to-day

in its relation

recreate

in

fancy

Karl

August

grace

and

old man,
clever

it

as

drew

who

Pumpernickel

in

reigning pdwers
Ritchie

There

excellent

and

been

and

by

of

but

daughter-in-law

me."
the

result

the

This

The

great

lion

promise
that

Erhprinz,

Elephant,

the

at

which

to

be

of
an

all the

of

was,

Joseph

which

was

430

Mrs.

July

to

31,

to

an

me;

night;

per

nothing.

costs

I have

not

seen,

introduce

time, fulfilled,with
able

Sedley put
then

the

little town,

shilling

as

clever

by

is open

due

in

the

Goethe.

promised

has

stopped.

of

Weimar,

Weimar,

Rebecca,

little Court

fascinating

sociitS

Thackeray
where

of

city

welcome

great

costs

petite

the

much

so

magnet,

one

was

made

the

which

charming

to

which

"

the

capital library which

Goethe,
his

satirized

had

theatre

into

now

try

time.

later

said

father
is

with

as

that, writing from

records

1830, her

side,

place

his

take

to

to

as

poet, grown

Vanity Fair,^

who

youngsters

the

of his

youngsters

Thackeray,

"

his

to

well

as

truly

as

in

events

corralling

in

when

was

do

tion
celebra-

rising generation

of

little

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genius.

is

Goethe

to

duU

the

succeeded

"

Goethe

march
would

Weimar

our

the

keeping

the

to

as

FRIENDS

"

up,

write

Lewes,

is still the

rival

to

Madame

de

of

Raudon,"

WEIMAR,
the latter

when

THE

CITY

begged him

OF

for

GOETHE

reminiscences

some

of

Weimax:
"In

83

His

strangers.

and

there

"Goethe

only

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few

privileged
know

to

himself
struck

countenance

settled in Weimar

quite
this

by

who

drawings, casts,
"

of

Of

spirit with

the
rath

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would

see

me

place in

took

private apartments,

gray

red

and
or

drab

ribbon

his

white, taken

and

pictures,

over

perturbation

the

I received

Geheim-

the Herr

that

He

redingote, with
in

Goethe

it.

of nineteen,

This

morning.

all round

covered

bas-reliefs.

buttonhole.
431

artist

an

notable
of

little ante-chamber

and

Whenever
was

all

well

lad

such

on

admitted;

medals.

very
a

there

was

and

as

where

happening

was

in black

house

statues

and

novels

portrait of

long-expected information

audience

casts

made

which,

pleasantest

were

persons

fancy,

I remember

course

the

hour

German.

that

gallery of heads

painter.

was

after

all strangers.

his

receive

private apartments,

aU

about

hour

endless

over

in his

liked

interested

had

read

world,

tea-table

with

night

remained

very

he

but

after

night

the

kindly

passed

French, English and

in

poems

from

very

We

us.

music.

and

talk

retired

daughter-in-law's
for

spread

always

had

nevertheless

would

Goethe

he

though

1,

was

with

habited
white
He

antique

in

neckcloth

kept

his

his

long
and
hands

GOETHE

behind

his

AND

back, just

complexion

was

felt

FRIENDS

in Ranch's

as

statuette.

bright, clear

very

qtiiteafraid before
been

must

have

than

even

very

rich and

in

that

good
"

and

but

and
the

his

cloak

time

since

somewhat

spoke French

his

with

conducted

books

holding
At

Court

to

day, wearing

caressing

was

golden-haired granddaughter,
the

fair face

earth

has

setting,the sky round

bright

and

and
of

one

every

that

those

The

letters.

extraordinary

very
a

was

In

no

little

in the

going

once

He

coUar.

sweet,

and

with

read

red

still of art

was

walking

too.

sun

by it.

Once

sunshiny

whose

cakti

possessing

actors

was

I recollect

then

Frauenplan;

beautiftd

closed,

was

on

with

Though

illumed
talk

man

voice

I could.

times.

in the

chariot

over

him

old

questions about

and

he

Goethe

an

His

me

best

that

three

of his house

step into

"

asked
as

I found

him

saw

garden

long

He

first astonished

when

as

days of his youth.

sweet.

at

brilliant.

I fancied

handsome

His

rosy.

...

more

His

accent.

cap

them.

I answered

was

relieved

stUl

the

myself which

Add.

WOMAN

extraordinarily dark, piercing and

eyes

at

HIS

noble
and

not

the

little

men

unkindly

the

theatre, though
actors,

stiU

was

The

order.

of letters and

men,
gentle-

relationship with

conversation
432

Weimar

salons

kind

intelligence and

were

about

was

the

exceedingly

WEIMAR,

friendly, simple
paid

respect

something
and

the

CITY

and

polished

the

to

With

charitable,

simple,

that

of

the

dear

good

Schiller

and

the

in

the

the

to

of which

never

seen

write,
of

society

more

gentlemanlike

little Saxon

city where

Goethe

great

years'

variety
a

and

was

subject

twenty

immense

courteous

than

and

days
an

I have

I think

humankind,

five

with

acquaintance

an

and
.

of letters, there

happy

those

GOETHE

think, alike

sovereign.
since

OF

Patriarch

ennobHng,

experience
and

THE

lived

the

and

lie

buried."
Almost

up

Thackeray
His

to

last

Goethe

him,

met

of his

time

the

was

day

arrangement

to

his

correspondence,

of

his

papers

and

wotild

Krauter

records

life,he

said

into

the

great

up

that, in
a

on

and

park

in

books

wonderful

enjoyment

out

one

sunshiny
do

bit

fine

spring

the

open."

And

and

papers

and

park

which

Goethe

pity such

enjoyed

study

his

move

of

future

of

he

was

time

another

to

the

still another

to

the

Sometimes

the

into
the

Jast

morning:

and

open,
years
"

Let

of

his

us

go

of work

there.

It

weather

should

not

so

is

be

together they packed

walked
had

across

to

the

planned

for

the

and

for

generations in Weimar
433

worker.

certain

completion of writings begun long before.

he

after

year

that

us

exceedingly systematic, too, devoting

of each

prodigious

teUs

Krauter,

secretary,

death,

GOETHE

which

AND

HIS

visitor to

no

the

WOMAN

FRIENDS

to-day

town

fails to call him

blessed.
But

though
he

weather,

could

his house

in

in

overheated

Italy

that

he

early

love

close
his

he

For

for

sleeping

which

chose

for

for

.final breath

wisch),
fifteen

who

and

house

picture

Johann
of these

day

summer

the

small

Fatk
two

studying

proximity

garden table

animal, which

lay

little

marriage
lived

the

to

of the

his

us

434

in

part of
were

memorable

garden

on

customs

did

women,

reptile,but Goethe

him

Pog-

guests

and

young

came,

August,

upper

in the

manners

end
von

when

his

"

son

happily feeding with

before

many

in which

the

in the

given

most

chamber

and

(bom

his table

has

and

with

of the

when

Ottilie

at

hot

views

light!

fast friends

Ottilie, Hke

snake.

enjoy

presided

his

1832, calling with

Goethe,

before, had

of

so

one

out

light,more

her

since

years

present.

More

in

cause

command,

daughter-in-law,

his

his

"

of -doors

22,

only relative with

The
was

March

years

Remembering

stuffy

his

at

his

cold.

air

of his for

house

sleeping-room

on

away

out

the

spacious apartments
passed

from

warm

of fresh

contributory

always taking

was

astonishment

he

dates

in

fondness

constantly in

sat

horrified
he

be

to

breath

this

which

"

out-of-doors

even

winter, and

held

was

the

bear

not

rooms

"

death.

poet Uked

our

sat

of
not
at

quill the

long-necked glass.

WEIMAR,
"

The

and

he

as

eyes

maintained

poet

raised

its head

in

came

'

head, but

the

much

to

the

to

OF

that

'

sight.

! ' said he.

allow

CITY

THE

What

awkward,

the
whose

writhing

touch.

them

them

eagerly

and

hardly
four
"

the

At

"

took

as

of

walk
my

asked

whether

'

Do

me

it.

he

will

It

was

'

We

I had
must

next

winter.'

yourself

be

from

us

close

to

to

shown

the

and

immediately
the

Goethe,

snuled

the

me

fig-treeto

forget,'said she,

Goethe

435

able
consider-

along

us

she

return

gone

greeting

After

in

not

boy's

table.

towards

garden.

the

to

advanced

she

of the

out

the

into

came

fig-tree is, in leaf and

lady

addressing herself

time

let

the

the

upon

that

salutations

receiving

matted

Then

late now.'

chrysalids

again

magnificent

distance

same

and

indoors; they

Goethe

von

the

blossom,' exclaimed

admire

the

to

table

the

It is too

Frau

laid them

How

middle

pillars,
cater-

expecting.

attentively.
them

to-day.

not

glass which

was

from

Carry

moment

Goethe

and
'

in this

afternoon.

this

garden.
hand

out

come

in

'

boy,

soon

mobility, sensitive

took

the

to

as

chrysalids of
Goethe

remarkable

the

some

Goethe

watched
said

lay

him

wotild

body

Near
.

forthcoming

showed

They

knew

half finished

of it.'

snake

snake

splendid, intelligent,
was

contained

the

edge of the glass

great deal

come

GOETHE

and

'

to

the

at

it

have

said to

fig-tree and

me,

that

directly

shall

we

or

"

provided for,'

handsomely
"

'

for

Well,

casting

such
it with

feed

'

if the

Yet

house

and

should

hear

into

turn

'

Goethe.

Dear

with

not

looks

he

How

if he

as

"

The

the

he

as

far niente
presence.

I, for

my

the

of

We
.

as

Roman
here

met

as

in

Villa

be
436

Is it

part?

Poor

and

while

That

to

was

in;

came

refreshing

Every
dolce

bit of the
of

deal
break

into

art

too

to

in

respect

Borghese.

great

glad

'

you

every

brought

talk

head

said,

atmosphere

part, should

he

same

if he

better.

water

hands,

the

you

agreeable and

in

was

it is

him

see

the

exactly

his

nor

'

there!

you

retorted

snake!

his

taking

was

whom

'

we

Poor

treat

raises

he

butterflies

fruit.

and

brought

his

himself

oblige her,

to

should

up

is most

him

is

He

then

painter,

sight of

Weimar
time

that

it.'

at

buUd

all be

can't

not

still less

nasty things,"

How

washing

the

me.

me!

is pent

he

was

"

cotdd

disagreeable

look

butterfly

They

servant

Goethe

Katz,

at

knew

thing, how

but

me,

Such

flowers

despise you!

They

'

near

would

child, we

fig-treesdecked

that

Goethe,

von

snake,

as

about

more

no

Frau

to

be

to

shudder

snake

evening.

deserves

and

hands.
me

this

peace

the

at

own

my

thing

nasty

It makes

creature!
"

glance

no

part,' said

my

side

endure

have

FRIENDS

seeing, too,

really is worth

It

WOMAN

HIS

AND

GOETHE

my

much.

myself

of

GOETHE

like

seem

AND

HIS

and

home,

WOMAN

FRIENDS

only

two

in

rooms

it, the

died, have

and

when

him

of

the

adjoining

it.

tour

writing-desk,
such

as

object of
in
be

Yet

kitchen.
written

some

this

the

bust

up

the

in

many

to

"

though

regard him

with

in

his bedroom

its

cottrse,

deal

table

table

this

ence,
of refer-

books

few

were

of

works

important

neatly arranged, and

mired,
greatly ad-

Goethe

whom

one

pauses,

wooden

left

workingman's

common

most

Napoleon,

incumbent
Germans

and

ordinary

an

piles of proof -sheets

of

there;

study is,of

authors!

greatest of German
some

he

one

the

young

as

study and

case

this

upon
of

remain

it

the

as

which

upon

every

found

well

as

"

feel him

the

at

because

goddess which

distinctly when

very

may

of the

the

receptions

called

so

"

piano

man

is furnished

sure,

Italy,

not

great

his famous

performed,

house,

central

The

its

does

one

feel

room,"

figure

once

But

held

the

suggestions of
be

to

from

with

Mendelssohn

does

Juno

home

music-room

them.

intimate

Goethe

colossal

brought

poet

"

the

the

contains

in which

drawing-room,

just as.it was

there;

them

about

The

poet.

littlechamber

the

study and

it is

held

furious

severely plain appointments

to

be

hatred,
of

on

"

all

make

this very

terestin
in-

apartment.
Connected

with

the

study by
438

little door

so

low

IN

GOETHE
From

HIS

STUDY.

drawing by Schmeller.

GOETHE

VON

EEITZ

AND

See

p.

242.

See

p.

STEIN.

431-

WEIMAR,
that
to

the

poet, though

Goethe
has

been

he

and

died

breathed

with

shaving-stand
stand
the

with

time

belongings,

personal
to

the simple life

at

Weimar

which

this

blooded

aged

have

the

to

his

the

of

lusty
of

writer

seem

man

in

his residence
cares

in the

about

of

spring
this

are

fairly

in

his

close

as

housekeeping
the

prefers

of

lover
books
in

to

which

Ilm

on

the

August

served,
prered-

to

Charlotte

biology,

the

and
may

intimately

house

indeed

preside

over

does
the

first took

up

of high hopes

and

he

1776.

Goethe

439

sponge

across

Particularly

Goethe.
the

up

Karl

young

Garden-House

charming

one

the

wash-

poet is also

who

loyalty quickened

with

spirit

of
the

Geheunrath,

associated

If

visitor

playfellow

Christiane
also

the

days.

of the

home

that

so

set

salad

earlier

taining
con-

been

have

first

his

table

and

little cottage

with

he

Though

to

he

when

death, Goethe,

his

is

medicine.

room.

seems

bare

associate

Happily

of

when

as

in the

we

of

mirror

narrow

bed

narrow

small

bottle

is

by

when

was

sitting

was

articles in the
the

at

man

he

it

as

plain,

reverence,

basin, pitcher, soap-dish and

only other

rich

the

near

and

teacup

exactly

had

in which

room

affectionate

detail

last,and

his

have

must

it,is the tiny

which'

in

GOETHE

tall man,

Beside

away.

arm-chair

OF

which, with

left in every

passed

an

not

through

to pass

stoop

CITY

THE

GOETHE

sighs

deep
but
is

AND

if

even

the

place

one

only

wittily observed
which

to

grow

his

aU

would
on

be

that

and

years

Goethe

that

that

loved

garden

and

schon

the

ist die

women,

In

Ihn

saying

they

as

not.

on

Of it he

changed.

never

"Weit

this

oflEering

truer

looks

has

only love

life true,

in

do

women

the

trees, iinhke

improve

trees

his

that

writer

was

himself.

man

its memory

German

garden

remained

gardens

certain

that

does

as

highly interesting;

about

cynical explanation

the

FRIENDS

cotirse

cares

Goethe

WOMAN

is of

forever.

joy

HIS

event

any

with

take

love

ich

dem

wrote:

doch

Welt,

wie

dank

Himmel
ein

Dass

mich

Bringe

wieder

nach

mein
hat

Was

Hause!

eigen gehort!
ein

Gartner

reisen?

zu

Ehre

zierlich

Gartchen, beschrankt,

bringt's ihm

nnd

GlUck,

wenn

sein

er

Gartchen

besorgt." ^

To

the

Countess

just after

"

property,
the

Jim,

"

and

That

I
me

lovely garden

is

old

an

lovely the world.

garden

now

home

stretches

which

possess,

again

do

there

I thank
modest

howsoe'er

journey:

on

what

of

beautiful

I shall

which

Thee,

little

banks

the

out

house

Yet

of this

possession

into

come

I have

There

Broad

Let

had

before

meadow.
1

he

joyfuUy,

declared,

Stolberg he

Heaven,

its limits!
need

has

gardener

to

wander?
Contentment

and

honour

are

his

440

so

long

as

he

tendeth

his

garden."

WEIMAR,
have

repaired.
the

all

birds
than

more

above

the

thinks

only

of

and

its

groimds

the

abode

of

he

its

it

men,

because

stand
this

its

felt himself

from, quite outside

the

town,

the

house

behind

modest

that

friend,

beloved

of his

Karl
^

hauschen

neighboiurhood

less

pronounced.

there

was

might

arranged

run

be

von

up
an

(in 1778)

in three

was

and

easily accessible
in honour

of the

441

Duchess

leagues

it particularly
and

so

through

the

the

the

added

near

trees

of

to

against

his

Borkenitself to

only

was

Louise.

its

and,towering
palace

glad

moved
re-

quite apart

nights by order
shelter

at

from

was

Stein

privacy

he

days

here

House)

Goethe's
For

be

(in 1778)

When

(littleBirch-Bark

the

'This

Frau

as

one

walk

quietness

see

residence,

August.

before

yet he

and

that, in winter, he could

it all

one

just

Goethe

To

He

to

of

Garden-House

to

of remoteness.

air

those

expected, that

seems

of

the

on

expects,

may

habitation.

every

bit of

hedge

five-minutes

the

by

from

green

and

was

when

ago,

grounds

doe

it

garden is

always

only

are

appealed

its

and

as

rush

For, though

many

from

this

spaces

or

silence.

green

quarter

within

said

stag

true

as

motor-cars

forest

once

moment

in the

and

park, but

Eckermann
any

and

divides

now

adjacent

GOETHE

it is

written, that

Bicycles

which

street

OF

To-day

century

were

Paradise.

CITY

There, too, everjrthingblossoms

sing."

lines

THE

shade

have

Karl

of Goethe
rain

for

that
a

fete

for

sleep

August

call

hut

and

and

bathe

in the

and

kitchen,

wonder

this

Frauenplan
each
Yet

he

Frau

How

in which

he

the

much

peaceful
held
Yet

it

house

his

warm

comer

broke

he

with

""It is

he

to

could
outside

the

be
trees

interestingto

also, in February,

"

now

the

note

that

so

and

that
of the

residence
mansion.

not

busying

442

which

as

me."

soon

the

to

in

Even
from

friends
as

spring

day

after

make

the

Garden-House

was,

himself

his last visit to the

1832.

that

than

plants that' still

year

return.

hold

clung.

his

for

thread

rather

tenderly

for

from

alone

to

the

Melusine

second
you

and
yearns

removing

there, and
seen

soul

might

to

the

on

her

did

garden

write

pared
com-

dearly, writing

as

the

was

heart

would

in

lost

It

really

that

February

day

have

The

house
his

up

My

she

which

one

palace

spacious

"

left

make

please

to

town,

[to Weimar];
was

and

have

to

refuge!

me

took

rooms

content.

large

little place

the

later

into

be

left is

and

when,

hers

here

lived

its five

walls

had

imposing

home
of

one

he

Goethe

with

"

out

come

Ihn.

years

seven

could

box;

moved

little

that

he

Stein

he

Duke,

that

to

of the

narrow

which

loved
von

for

whose

an

midnight

at

waters

little

winter

FRIENDS

night in this near-by

den-House,

"

home

to

the

Gar

greatly

Frankfort

limpid
winter

happily
a

him

to

over

and

WOMAN

occasional

an

in th6

Sttmmer

HIS

AND

GOETHE

WEIMAR,
place

THE

beautiful.

so

pines here

and

Httle

house

roof.

"Next

them,"

Goethe

wrote

which

have

wishes

grow

"

them.
the

warmest

over

the

ancients

to-day

the

early

and

there

Hier

liebten
stone

and

in
"

and

of

years
to

too

stille

which

the

stands

gedachte
the

placed

poet
near

the

table

my

"

on

while

Park, just across,

in

which

the

Stein,

the

even

spot

as

on

embroidered,
"

best

inscription
Liebender

seats

place

There,

she

to

and

this

over

friend's

caused

443

pierce

not

Goethe.

der

the

planted,

Garden-House

her

for

of

"

curtains

the

own

sleeps.'

hover

hang

at

that

Pan

with

our

continued,

to

connected

house

pride that the

could

von

seems

ago

quarter

sim

Charlotte

hands,

own

'

that

himself

as

say

the

had

the

such

years

whole
with

he

and

trees

from

comfortably

to

spirit

windows,
her

strongest

days,"

wont

other

with

the

stillness

were

no

over

"

trim

must

twenty
air

its

raised

the

happens

he

adjacent meadow

her

and

heads!

sit here

dedicated

was

than

more

summer

the

In

"for

1799,

trees, which

can

reigns

there

"

really

it often

our

that

thick

so

he told Eckermann

foliage of these
was

there

light

So

over

later

century

in

away

grounds.

which

spring

planted

taken

now

the

and

GOETHE

grateful shade, fairlycrowding

modest

shrubs

OF

Lindens, oaks, elms, chestnuts,

gave

the

length

at

CITY

room,"

beginning
Ge-

seiner

be

engraved

which

they

were

on

GOETHE

wont

to

in

use

Stein

von

AND

had

with

came

little Ilm

There

is

there,"

he

has

Ilm, but

with

gates

to

of

which

sole

beside

the

performed
in
the

he

has

be

sure

be made

they

is

over

fitted

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he

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occupied

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Garden-House,

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faithful

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closed

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intervals

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Amalia

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to

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friends

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WEIMAR,
which

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visitor

every

hardly had

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in

public park just

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result

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place which
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all

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built

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longs for.

quickening

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faith.
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to

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you

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by

lover
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in kindness

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endowed

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a

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desires.

they

to

men

have

denied:
The

power

to

be

helpful to

all who

trustfullyask

445

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soul

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sie den

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who

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making

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stillen

have

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lines

interesting

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im

was

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share

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beneficent

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appears

by steps

enjoy

city sights

eighteenth

level

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now

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following graceful
und

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so

"

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future

GOETHE

hugely enjoys

taken

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to

lovely park through

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for your

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GOETHE

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and

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with

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quickened

real

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to

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in

where,

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also

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friends.

warm

wish

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Schiller, but

this

Karl

and

the

resulting compromise.
day

is much

desire

has

been

minor

poet

has

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impressed
even

thus

exclaimed

446

view

to

also,

is

and

Furstengrttft,

Grand

Duke

Karl

descendants,

repose

poets,

August

death,

is

Germans

the

great

democratic

Germany

own

his

two

lie,after

of

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of

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numerous

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seek

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less
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associated), but

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genius loci of

sure,

are

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name

houses

before

home

passing

part of visitors.

together

Goethe

grave

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were

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to

the

is the

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in

poet's

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monument

they

here

the

on

Goethe

sense

show-place.

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the

interest

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being described,

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gtiides taking parties through

Tiefurt,.

have

observe

to

mention

mere

FRIENDS

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these

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when

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associations

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BURIED,

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HAUS

IN

inscription.

WEIMAR

PARK.

GOETHE

SCHILLER

MONUMENT,

WEIMAR.

INDEX

Anna

Amalia,
Weimar, 171,

Duchess

of

172,

189,

177,

228,
238, 286, 288, 289,
220,

340,

225,

3S3,

3S7,
Archim

Arnim,
Arnim,
129,

227,

Arnold,

301,

320-

Delf, Mademoiselle,

359,
Brentano

360

231,

3SO-37S

von,

220,

William

237,

233,

292,

Cologne, 401
Constant, Benjamin, 364, 365
Creizenach, Theodore, 398

217,

444

Bettina
130,

229,

Saxe-

von,

243,

Thomas,

214,

3,

DichtungundWahrkeit,
33"

Die

215,

216

Die

Belvedere,

Wolfgang,

39,

40,

335

334,

Johann,

Morris,

Bielschowsky, Dr.
Bode, Dr. Wilhelm,

362, 363
Albert, 164

405,

212,

199,

Bojanowski,
Maximiliane
Brentano,
130,

402,

397,

403,

406, 408
Eleonore

129,

133,

von,
von,

La

344

Roche,

Elective

147,

Johann

257,

203,

2S4,

199,

Peter,
2S7,

24,

331,

31,
390.

200,

339

240

Affinities,358,

382, 383, 386, 390

Emmendingen,
30, 150
Castle,
228,
Ettersburg

153,

161, 164

Fanny,

Reise,

228, 337,

Eisenach,

230

Brentano, Peter, 129, 134

Brion, Frederika, 83-107,
Bumey,

25,
218

416, 443
413,
412,
EgloSstein,
Henriette, Countess
165
von,
Egmont,
266, 274, 281
Hildebrand
Friedrich
Einsiedel,

307,

35

Boisserfie, Sulpiz,
404,

6, 14, 19,
136,

i04.

loi.

Italianische

Eckermann,
192, 196,

321

Frau,

73.

186,

299

Bohme,

59.

"

207, 329,
Friedrich

Bethman,

43.

268, 272
Drusenheim,
82, 85
Diintzer, Heiniich, 158, 167, 168,
182, 190, 296, 380

214

41

Bertuch,

161,

142,

Fisckerin, 327
Gesckwister, 181

Die

Bastier, Paul,
Behiisch, Ernst

141,

162, 163, i6s

376, 381,

229,

331-

334
131,

132

Fabricius, Katherine,
22,
Fahlmer,
Johanna,
149,

Caedertz, Karl Theodor,

390
Calvert, George H., 182, 204
Carlsbad, 204, 243, 417, 425
63
Carlyle, Thomas,
Carrifire,Moriz, 3S9

23,
154.

27

iSS.

174

Falk, Johann, 434

Fatist, 12, 14, 16, 43.
Francke, Kimo, 383
449

S3.

4"?.

437

INDEX

Frankfort, 1-17, 396, 397,

413

410,

Johanna
frommann,
Charlotte,
378, 379, 382, 38s
377,
Karl Friedrich Ernst,
Frommann,

376
Fiirstengruft,446
Gerard, Frances

A., 260,

Alfred

Seymour,

326,

Fraialein

273
214,

301,

251,

227,

von,

154,

Goethe,

23s,

178,

213,

2S4,

300,

301,

302,

308,

309,

311,

314,

316, 317,

354,

355,

365,

394

Goethe,

S3,

52,

130,

Tex-

344,

214-

Jahn,

317, 338, 339, 351,

360, 361, 362, 363, 364,

Pogwisch,

von

Garden-House, 186,
375,

439,

440,

441,

442,

227,
443,

(Frankfort),

House

225, 230,
Goethe's
House
214,

243,

190,

16, 18,

186,

13,

14,

Hamilton,

Andrew,

Hamilton,

Emma

266, 281,

329

301
343,

408
Professor

Otto,
303,

22

312,

366, 367,

129

Saxeof
Dukf
62, 149, 158, 172, 176,
Weimar,
i8s, 186, 187, 192, 233, 234, 236,
326, 328,
237, 238, 239, 243, 300,

August,

340,

329,

334,

347,

348,

349,

442,

444,

445,

341,

342,

343,

344,

422,

430,

439,

441,

446,

447

Karlsruhe, 149

21

Hermann,
Grimm,
Guizot, 109
Gunther, Wilhelm

191,

Heinrich,
Caroline, 342,

Jena, 211, 299,

378, 379, 389

Karl

Gore, Elise, 337

Gore, Emilie, 337

(Marguerite),12,

von,

47,50

19,

249

(Weimar),
196, 212, 301,434,437,438
Gore, Charles, 337

Gretchen

Adam

160
Kalb, Chamberlain
159,
von,
SchonAnna
Katherine
Kanne,
kopf, 36-50, 154
Gottfried, 44, 45,
KS,nne, Johann

444

Goethe's

330

Christian

410,

436

435,

31
210,

Jacobi, Friedrich

309,

Ottilie

Goethe's

179,

Jerusalem,

434,

431,

Elizabeth

180, 194

Jagemann,

318, 410
Goethe, Katharine

Holt,

306,

211,

302,

Carl

Ipkigenia,

Walther,

307,

tor, 1-8, 23,

Imhoff,

5, 6, 8,

243

August

Julius

3,

Ibsen, Henrik,
Ilmenau, 19s,

376-391

359,

Eichard

Hutton,

Vulpius, 206,

Caspar,

223,

255,

Dorothea, 164, 166,

Herzlieb, Minna,

398, 399, 410

Goethe, Johann

IS,

337, 444
mid

281

252, 2S4, 267, 291, 295-319,

359, 360, 370, 383, 394, 396,

345,

300,

178, 179,

215,

337

Christiane

Goethe,

(von Imhofi),

180

Hastings, Warren, 178, 179, 180

Heidelberg, 161, 165, 317, 397, 403,

Hermann

Gochhausen,

75.

Hamlet, 92
Hastings, Marianne

406
Herder, Johann
Gottfried, 82, 148,
286, 287, 289, 298,
28s,
208,
IQ2,

217

32s,

William, 268, 269,

270

Friday Club, 336-338

Gibbs,

Sir

Hamilton,

402, 408,

Angelica,

374

Kauffman,
336

Christhof, 314

Keil, Robert, 167, 200

Kestner, A., 123, 128

380, 386
Harte, 268, 269,

270

450

Kestner,

Johann

110,

112,

113,

121,

122,

123,

256-294,

Christian,
115, 117, 118,
125, 126, 134

109,
119,

INDEX

Klettenberg, Susanne
245,

Oeser, Adam

Buff, 108-135

Kestner, Charlotte

Oeser, Frederica

51-72,

von,

44,

328

280

Kochberg, 178, 180, 205

Gottfried, 167, 296,
KSmer,
Albert,
Koster,
215

Ofifenbach, 147,
323

346
Theodor,

Friedrich

156, 246,

153,

151,

394

Kranz, 227, 229

Kraus, George Melchior, 228, 337,
Krauter,

Frederick, 43
Elizabeth, 43,

Olenschlager, Herr von,

Oxenford, John, 199

63, 68

Parker, Theodore,

373

372,

433

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 260, 261

Rieffenstein,Hofrath,'26s, 273,275,
La

Sophie,

Roche,
17s,

240,

224,

190,

152,

328
Rheinhold, 82,

115,

280

loi,

100,

102,

314,

Ulrike

Levetzow,

412,

von,

416-

429

Lewes, George

Louise

3S7,

359,

304,

379

3S9,

271,

270,

Elegies, 301, 304

Haus," 445
Rousseau, Jean Jacques,

"

Henry, 36, 62, 104,

380, 384, 386, 387,

386, 389
Duchess
of Darmstadt,
Herr

272

177, 191,

192,

RSmische

Sainte-Beuve, 18
Salzmann, Johann

of

Schardt, John
von,

421,

422,

424

Martin, Theodore, 17
Felix, 438
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
Merck, Johann Heinrich, 121, 129,
230,

170

Schlosser, Cornelia

Schlosser,

Hennette,

4,

6,

224

30,

36,

31,

317

Schopenhauer, Johanna,

315

38, 54, 182, 184,

328,
329, 330, 338,
194, 327,

Schroter, Corona,

312

191,

194,

365
Goethe,

18-32, 52, 150, 222,

Schlosser, Fritz, 397
Schlosser, George, 29,
126, 397

Messenheim, 104
Metamorphosis of Plants, 304
Metchnikoff, 194
Meyer, Heinrich, 292, 337, 359
310,
309,
Meyer, Nicolaus, 303,
Moebius,

298

von,

Schlegel,William,

239

235,

75,

Schiller, 167, 185, 197, 205, 212,

296, 323, 333, 367, 417, 433, 446
Lengefeld,
von
Schiller, Charlotte
308
173, 204, 209, 211, 212, 213,

Marie

226, 227,

Daniel, 58,

B., 372
William
Christian

Schardt, Sophie

420,

50

Franklin

Sanborn,

337

441

Antoinette, 79
418, 419,
Marienbad,

45,

81, 93, 96

von,

Saxe-Weimar,
340-349,

318

342

Schulthess, Barbara,
Nake,

313,

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 369

Rochlitz, Frederic, 368

430

Lopper,

Wilhelm,

Friedrich

Roman

103

2S7,

288

Riggi, Maddalena,

Leipzig, 33-50,
Lenz,

278,

132,

Riemer,

Caspai, 61,

Johaiin

Lavater,

131,

130,

238, 251

233,

231,

165, 279, 280,

281,'282
103

Napoleon,
Neumann,

345,

346,

347.

Chnstiane,

Ney, Marshal,

348,

Seidel, Philip, 187, 188, 223,

Seidler, Louise, 305, 306, 320,

349,

444

379

330

Selig, Christiane, 381, 384,

313

451

39"

378,

INDEX

Sesenheim, 83, 89,

loi,

95,

91,

90,

173,

122

Shaw, George Bernard, 415

Sherwood, M. E. W., 371
Sinclair,May, 105
Sorrows
of Werlher, no,
112,
1*9.

13S1

143"

231,

3S4,

368

von,

127,

von,

Stein, Charlotte
167-213, 239,

313

von,

101,

150,

152,

240,

242,

247,

300,

302,

248,
306,

375,

412,

Ense, 54
Varnhagen, von
Vulpius, Christian August, 299
Vulpius, Johann Friedrich, 298
Vulpius, Juliane Auguste, 301, 311,
312

Ernestine

Vulpius, Sophie

441,

Louise,

301,311,312

443,444

Constantin

Friedrich

(Fritz), 172,

173,

208,
298,

207j
242,

241,

240,

220,

von

Stein, Gottlob
rich von,

196,

171,

Stella, 142, 147

Stilling,Jung, 81,
Stock, Dora, 296

Stolberg,

300,

Weimar, 135, 149, 158, i6r, 167,

169, 182, 192, 202, 206, 211, 225,

IS3.

151.

Stolberg,

233,248,278,

82

Augusta,
185,

iSS.

143,

440

406,

Wetzlar, 108, 109, 116, 129

Wieland, Christoph Martin,

176,

230,

6, 8,

Wilhelm

Count

Friedrich, 148,

Willemer, Johann
393,

217

374,

Tiefurt,

49,

191,

190,

192,

William
430,

325,

193,

277,

327,

334,

Anna

Jacob

397,

395,

394,

Wolfskeel,

Henriette

Wolzogen,

Caroline

Zimmermann,
Zinzindorf,

335,

Count

Heinrich, 258

Zucchi,

Trevelsran, Janet, 215

Tiirckheim,

401

2,

53,

62,

420

Zelter, Karl

339

Tischbein, Johann

352

von,

399,. 402,

392,
404,

414

392-415

337

von,
303

von,

Makepeace,

433

326,

Meiskr,

339,

406, 408, 409, 410, 411,

Willemer, Marianne
von,
335-338
Wittumspalais,

56, 73, 79, 80, 92,

418, 419. 421
164,
404,
1SO7 IS3,

Tasso, 34,
281, 287
Thackeray,

411

Christian, 148,

Strassburg,

392,

187, 188, 21S, 22s,

Wiesbaden, 396, 397,
286,

Stolberg,

234,

288,429-447

Divan,

Count

217

von,

399,

WestSstlicher

211

408,

Countess

236

Wedel,

Josias Fried-

Ernst

Chamberlain

210,

316

127,

Wilhelm

Friedrich

397

258, 262, 297, 298,

3"7, 308, 316, 345,

I4S.

Friedrich

280

217,

de, 231, 360^369

Stahr, Adolf, 140, 167, 380

212,

164,

401

Bemhard

Tiirckheim,

Stael, Madame

Stein,

178, 188,

177,

Tiirckheim,

Ulrich, Caroline, 306

Rosette,

;Stadel,

182, 189,

174,

(Lili), 136-166,

Schonemann

99,

Elizabeth

275,

452

Friedrich,

Johann
Nikolaus

58,
von,
Antonio,
277,

293

402

Georg, 150
Ludwig,

71

259,

262, 263,

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