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  • A half hour later, Werner and Frederick are reading Goethe in poetics.†  (source)
  • Goethe had described architecture as frozen music, and Pei's critics described this pyramid as fingernails on a chalkboard.†  (source)
  • Goethe.†  (source)
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  • ** A famous line from Goethe: "On top of the world, or in the depths of despair."†  (source)
    Goethe = German polymath and writer (1749-1832)
  • This pattern holds from the Elizabethan Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus through the nineteenth-century Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust to the twentieth century's Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and Damn Yankees.†  (source)
  • Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!†  (source)
  • Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe INTRODUCTORY NOTE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, the greatest of German men of letters, was born at Frank fort-on-the-Main, August 28, 1749.†  (source)
  • When Goethe as a young student visited the city, he still found sad ruins 'Von der Kuppel der Frauenkirche sah ich these leidigen Trimmer zwischen die schone stddtische Ordnung hineingesat; da rihmte mir der Kiister die Kunst des Baumeisters, welcher Kirche und Kuppel auf einen so uneriinschten Fall schon eingeyichtet und bombenfest erbaut hatte.†  (source)
  • Faust Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe INTRODUCTORY NOTE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, the greatest of German men of letters, was born at Frank fort-on-the-Main, August 28, 1749.†  (source)
  • Here they were, gathered at one table, the nation's foremost practitioners of what Goethe and Schelling called "frozen music."†  (source)
  • Mr. President, Mrs. Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends: Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up, not far from Goethe's beloved Weimar, in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald.†  (source)
  • The room usually fills when Cedric is around and, soon, Ira Volker is here, along with Florian Keil, his soft-spoken German roommate whose father runs a Boston arm of the Goethe Institute, the German government's cultural ministry abroad.†  (source)
  • Do you know what Goethe said about our friend Copernicus?†  (source)
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