...significant lines, written before the appearance of Werter ; To griefs congenial prone, More wounda than nature gave he knew, While misery's form his fancy drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own.1 ' Self-murder is an occurrence in men's affairs which, how much soever it may have already been...

...sorrow, might be seen from these few significant lines, written before the appearance of Werter : — 1 To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature...knew, While misery's form his fancy drew In dark ideal hnes, and horrors not ita own.' l "Self-murder is an occurrence in men's affairs which, how much soever...

...wretchedness is shown by the few significant lines, written before the appearance of " Werther : " " To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature...drew In dark ideal hues and horrors not its own." Suicide is an event of human nature, which, whatever may be said and done with respect to it, demands...

...he says, we have the precise expression of the moral disease which he has depicted in Werther : — To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature...fancy drew In dark ideal hues and horrors not its own !' 1 Werke, Briefe, ii. 140. If English literature contributed to the tone of feeling in Werther, it...

...he says, we have the precise expression of the moral disease which he has depicted in Werther : — To griefs congenial prone. More wounds than nature...fancy drew In dark ideal hues and horrors not its own ! * If English literature contributed to the tone of feeling in Werther, it also, though Goethe does...

...doom'd hard penury to prove, And the sharp stings of hopeless love ; 1 Ode XI. 1 V. supra, p. 2oj. To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature...fancy drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own.1 Such lines show how the increasing interest in human personality was growing up along with the...

...mären, bewetfen bie wenigen bebeuienben, üor bem (5r= {фешеп „SSert^erS" getriebenen То griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature gave...fancy drew In dark ideal hues and horrors not its own. Фег (Setbftmorb ift ein Ereignis bet menfdEjIidjen Statut, те1фе8, mag аиф barüber [фоп...

...his wakeful sense of woe. Though doom'd hard penury to prove, And the sharp stings of hopeless love; To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature gave he knew, While misery s form his fancy drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own. Then wish not o'er his earthy...

...ingenuous mind With many a feeling too refin'd, And rous'd to livelier pangs his wakeful sense of woe. 164 To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than nature...drew In dark ideal hues, and horrors not its own. Then wish not o'er his earthy tomb The baleful nightshade's lurid bloom To drop its deadly dew: Nor...

...shall be glad to forward prepaid letters to our correspondent.] AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. — " To griefs congenial prone, More wounds than Nature...drew In dark ideal hues and horrors not its own." These linee are quoted by Goethe in hie charming autobiography Aus meinem Leben, where he il speaking...