The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01. Коллектив авторов
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      E'en to this day I remember with joy those half-consumed timbers,

      And I can see once more the sun coming up in such splendor;

      For 'twas the day that gave me my husband; and, ere the first season

      Passed of that wild desolation, a son to my youth had been given.

      Therefore I praise thee, Hermann, that thou, with an honest assurance,

      Shouldst, in these sorrowful days, be thinking thyself of a maiden,

      And amid ruins and war shouldst thus have the courage to woo her."

      Straightway, then, and with warmth, the father replied to her, saying:

      "Worthy of praise is the feeling, and truthful also the story,

      Mother, that thou hast related; for so indeed every thing happened.

      Better, however, is better. It is not the business of all men

      Thus their life and estate to begin from the very foundation:

      Every one needs not to worry himself as we and the rest did.

      Oh, how happy is he whose father and mother shall give him,

      Furnished and ready, a house which he can adorn with his increase.

      Every beginning is hard; but most the beginning a household.

      Many are human wants, and every thing daily grows dearer,

      So that a man must consider the means of increasing his earnings.

      This I hope therefore of thee, my Hermann, that into our dwelling

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      For lack of space, scientists and historians have been excluded.

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      The chief original sources for the life of Goethe are his own autobiographic writings, his letters, his diaries, and his conversations. Of the autobiographic writings the most important are (1) Poetry and Truth from my Life, which ends with the year 1775; (2) Italian Journey, covering the period from September, 1786, to June, 1788; (3) Campaign in France and Siege of Antwerp, dealing with episodes of the years 1792 and 1793; (4) Annals (Tag- und Jahreshefte), which are useful for his later years down to 1823. His letters, forty-nine volumes in all, and his diaries, thirteen volumes, are included in the great Weimar edition of Goethe's works. His conversations, so far as they were recorded, have been well edited by W. von Biedermann, ten volumes, Leipzig, 1889-1896.

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      This earlier version was long supposed to be lost, but in 1910 a copy of the original manuscript was discovered at Zürich and published. Its six books correspond very nearly to the first four of the final version.

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      Translator: Charles Wharton Stork.

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      Adapted from E.A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E.A. Bowring. (All poems in this section translated by E.A. Bowring, W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin appear by permission of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.)

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      Translator: E.A. Bowring.

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      Adapted from E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      Translator: E. A. Bowring.

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      W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin.

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For lack of space, scientists and historians have been excluded.

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The chief original sources for the life of Goethe are his own autobiographic writings, his letters, his diaries, and his conversations. Of the autobiographic writings the most important are (1) Poetry and Truth from my Life, which ends with the year 1775; (2) Italian Journey, covering the period from September, 1786, to June, 1788; (3) Campaign in France and Siege of Antwerp, dealing with episodes of the years 1792 and 1793; (4) Annals (Tag- und Jahreshefte), which are useful for his later years down to 1823. His letters, forty-nine volumes in all, and his diaries, thirteen volumes, are included in the great Weimar edition of Goethe's works. His conversations, so far as they were recorded, have been well edited by W. von Biedermann, ten volumes, Leipzig, 1889-1896.

3

This earlier version was long supposed to be lost, but in 1910 a copy of the original manuscript was discovered at Zürich and published. Its six books correspond very nearly to the first four of the final version.

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Translator: Charles Wharton Stork.

5

Adapted from E.A. Bowring.

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Translator: E.A. Bowring. (All poems in this section translated by СКАЧАТЬ