 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...adorn'd outside; a hidden ground Of thought and of austerity within. [From Memorial Verttt.] GOETHE. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou attest here, and here! EARLY DEATH AND FAME. FOR him who must see many years, I praise the life which... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...done his pilgrimage." He took the suffering human race, He scanned each wound, each weakness, near, And struck his finger on the place, And said, " Thou ailest here, and here." He looked on Europe's dying hour, Of fitful dream and feverish power, His eyes plunged down the seething... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...— Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...the place, And said, — Thou ailest here and here. He look'd on Europe's dying hour, Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plunged down the weltering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1855 - 270 pages
...Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suifering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear...place And said — Thou ailest here, and here.— He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the weltering... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...— Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...the place And said — Thou ailest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His eye plung'd down the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 pages
...— Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place And said — Thou attest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 520 pages
...expending none of his strength in yearnings towards heaven. In this sense Goethe was a demigod : " He took the suffering human race ; He read each wound, each weakness clear ; He struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " He knew all symptoms... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 380 pages
..." Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head : Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...the place, And said, ' Thou ailest here, and here.' " The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen, to be physicians of the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1868 - 394 pages
..." Sunk, then, is Europe's sngest head : Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said, ' Thou aikst here, and here.' " . The loftiest office of a true clergy is the cure of souls ; of statesmen,... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...— Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage ; He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...the place And said — thou ailest here, and here. M. ARXOLD. His heart which few knew, was as great as his mind, which all knew. STILLING. He has a clear,... | |
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He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here... 
