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to us , on glancing back over the paper and the subject , that we had as yet taken no distinct notice of a circumstance , which ought to endear the poet for the sake of the man . We have before adverted to the fact that the realities of Leigh Hunt ' s life have not always been what the world calls happy ones . He has had much to endure , and he has endured it well . He has carried a light heart through all his misfortunes ; and is , we believe , to this day in many respects a hoy . We mean him , in saying this , one of the highest praises in our power . We believe that the more of our boyish inner sunshine we carry with us into the
scenes of the often cloudy world ; the more we can keep circumstances from embittering our feelings , or , at least , our own unhappiness from making others unhappy ; we avail ourselves the more of the * sweet uses of adversity / and acquire a title to the respect of our fellow-beings . Our poet , we apprehend , has chosen this better part , and we cordially trust he will have his reward . We understand that , in his own happy language , he has made
it his business , as far as he could , to * scatter smiles on this uneasy earth / During his imprisonment , he was a bird that sang in his cage , instead of committing suicide against the bars . If the latter conduct be thought more imposing and sentimental , the former we take to be more beautiful and endearing . We part from him , therefore , with the earnest and friendly hope , that the success of the present publication may be such , as to give some brighter days to the poet of ' Rimini . '
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184 Goethe ' s Works .
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OOETHE'S WORKS . —No . 8 .
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We are now arrived at the great work which holds the same pre-(eminent place among Goethe ' s prose writings which ' Faust' does among his poems , the Wilhelm Meister , ' but which is even more than Faust , Caviare to the million ; and with this the million took great offence . An esoteric metaphysical drama was tolerated , but the imposition upon the public of a psychological or rather pedagogical novel , from the enjoyment of which the reading people were excluded , was considered as an aristocratical usurpation upon popular rights , something like the abortive attempts of the managers of our London theatres to shut up the one shilling
gallery . Hence , while this work has been , and is , more loudly eulogized than any other by a few , it is far indeed from being popular . We shall endeavour , as briefly as possible , to characterise it . It being , in our judgment , the single work which Germany has to exhibit in emulation of the acknowledged masterpieces of Spain , France , and our own country . * It consists of two parts , Mr . Taylor would protest against this opinion , and claim this distiaction for the 1 Agathon' and other philosophical romances of Wieland *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/40/
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