The Stoddard Library, Vol. 6: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749; died at Weimar, March 22, 1832. Author of "Sorrows of Young Werther," "Clavigo," "Stella," "Tasso," "Iphigenia," "Wilhehn Meister," "Faust."

The name of Goethe is not only first in his native land, but one of the foremost in the entire history of literature.

(From "Faust")

Night. A high vaulted narrow Gothic Chamber

Faust, restless, seated at his desk

Faust. I've now, alas! Philosophy,
Med'cine and Jurisprudence too.
And to my cost Theology,
With ardent labor studied through.
And here I stand, with all my lore,
Poor fool, no wiser than before.
Master, aye doctor styl'd, indeed.
Already these ten years I lead,
Up, down, across, and to and fro,
My pupils by the nose, and learn,
That we in truth can nothing know!
This in my heart like fire doth bum.
True, I've more wit than all your solemn fools;
Priests, doctors, scribes, magisters of the schools;
Nor doubts, nor scruples torture now my breast;
No dread of hell or devil mars my rest;
Hence is my heart of every joy bereft;
No faith in knowledge to my soul is left;
No longer doth the hope delude my mind,
By truth to better and convert mankind.
Then I have neither goods, nor treasure,
No worldly honor, rank, or pleasure;

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