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Vols . 27 and 28 consist of the Italian journey in 1786-7 . And vol . 29 of the c Second Residence in Rome * ' from June 1787 to April 1788 . These volumes were published but a few years ago . They combine , therefore , the impassioned feelings with which the author contemplated the most remarkable and
interesting country on the face of the earth , when his faculties were in their zenith , with the ripest reflections of his mature age , Goethe ' s love of Rome has more of passion in it seemingly than any other taste in which he indulged . It was there his most celebrated -works ( Iphigenia and Tasso for instance ) received his final corrections . His love of poetry and the fine arts , his delight in the study of the human mind , as it appears in its more momentous productions , laws , religion , manners , and the varieties of natural character , all received here nutriment and employment . To the reflecting traveller in the c bel paese , ' these volumes may be especially recommended . Vol . 30 contains the narrative of his unfortunate campaign in France in 1792 , when the Duke of Brunswick made his
memorable retreat from Champagne , which determined the fate of Europe for ages .
Vols . 31 and 32 are nearly filled by the diary supplemental to the more elaborate autobiography of the authors youth , which extends to his seventy-third year . These sheets ( hefte ) are rather notes and hints , than a work ; and , therefore , though interesting to all who are already familiar with the writings of the poet , they do not form one of the works to be recommended to the student . There are , however , scattered throughout , curious facts connected with the literary and political history of the times .
Then follows an Eloge funebre on Amelia , Duchess Dowager of Weimar , written on her death in 1807 , and which was translated at the time in Dr . AikiiTs Athenaeum . ' We have before adverted to the influence which this accomplished princess had in the bringing together the great men who rendered the otherwise mean little town of Weimar illustrious . We add merely thus
much , that , in the latter period of her life , Wieland became her daily associate , while she was cordially attached to Herder , whose religious turn of mind had engaged her sympathies more strongly than the bolder and more philosophic character of either Goethe or Schiller ; yet she said with great feeling to our friend R a
few days after Schiller ' s interment , ' It has been the pride of my life to be the friend of our great men , but it is hard to be the survivor of them . ' She was spared a further trial of this kind ; Wieland survived her , and the greatest of them all has embalmed her memory in this precious casket of golden words .
. Another and more valuable memorial of friendship follows ia an oration delivered at a meeting of Free Masons , on the death of Wieland in 1813 : Zu bruderlichem Andenken fVielands ; L e . To the fraternal memory of Wieland . ' It is not easy to imagine
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/48/
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