| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann - Authors, German - 1850 - 472 pages
...exerted, and could exert, upon the great mass of the people. " A great dramatic poet," said Goethe, " if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble. From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes. This was something for Napoleon, who... | |
| American essays - 1891 - 906 pages
...the same time productive, and is actuated by a strong and noble purpose, which pervades the whole of his works, may succeed in making the soul of his pieces become the soul of the people." Do we ask for a further key to this mystery ? The poet has assured us we shall find it in his own life... | |
| Lotos club - 1875 - 454 pages
...dramatic poet, said Goethe, if he is at the same time productive and is actuated by a noble purpose, may succeed in making the soul of his pieces become the soul of the people, and this is what Shakespeare has accomplished. The drama is as old as the first story-teller who tried... | |
| John Brougham, John Elderkin - American literature - 1875 - 498 pages
...dramatic poet, said Goethe, if he is at the same time productive and is actuated by a noble purpose, may succeed in making the soul of his pieces become the soul of the people, and this is what Shakespeare has accomplished. The drama is as old as the first story-teller who tried... | |
| William Allingham - Great Britain - 1893 - 280 pages
...is true that in a conversation with Eckermann, in 1827, Goethe said : ' A great dramatic poet . . . may succeed in making the soul of his pieces become the soul of the people ; ' but in our phase of civilisation, which, while drawing the mediocre multitude into vast cities,... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 524 pages
...exerted, and could exert, upon the great mass of the people. " A great dramatic poet," said Goethe, "if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble. From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes. This was something for Napoleon, who... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Drama - 1919 - 126 pages
...exerted, and could exert, upon the great mass of the people. "A great dramatic poet," said Goethe, "if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble. From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes. This was something for 90 Napoleon,... | |
| Columbia University. Dramatic Museum - Acting - 1919 - 128 pages
...exerted, and could exert, upon the great mass of the people. "A great dramatic poet," said Goethe, "if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble. From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes. This was something for Napoleon, who... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 532 pages
...exerted, and could exert, upon the great mass of the people. " A great dramatic poet" said Goethe, " if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble. From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes. This was something for Napoleon, who... | |
| David Graham - Aesthetics - 1925 - 380 pages
...world better." 3 Lord Kames writes strongly in the same sense. 4 A great dramatic poet, says Goethe, " if he is at the same time productive, and is actuated...think that this was something well worth the trouble." So should I. " From Corneille proceeded an influence capable of forming heroes " (that was worth doing... | |
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