The Sorrows of Werther: A German Story, Volume 2J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall., 1784 - German literature |
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Adieu affembly againſt Albert alſo amidſt amongſt anfwer arms aſked attri bofom bufinefs cauſe Char Charlotte's choly Chriſtmas-eve converfation courſe dear Charlotte dear friend defire deſtiny diſturbed exift exiſtence expreffed eyes facred faid fame fatisfaction feel feemed felf felt fenfations fenfes fenfibility fent fentiments fervant fhall fhould fhudder fide filly fince firft firſt fituation fmile fofa foft folation fome foon forrow foul ftand ftay ftill fuch fufferings happineſs happy heard heart Heaven herſelf himſelf houſe huſband increaſe kiffes laft laſt LETTER loft look lotte melan mifery Mifs minifter moft moſt muft muſt myſelf night ourſelves paffed paffion paft pleaſed pleaſure poffefs prefent preffed raiſe ſaid ſcheme ſee ſeem ſeen ſhall ſhe ſtep ſteward ſtill ſtopped talk tears thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand trembled underſtanding uſe walk Werter whilft whofe wifh yeſterday yourſelf
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Page 135 - The flower hangs its heavy head, waving, at times, to the gale. Why dost thou awake me, O gale, it seems to say, I am covered with the drops of heaven? The time of my fading is near, and the blast that shall scatter my leaves.
Page 132 - All night I stood on the shore. I saw her by the faint beam of the moon. All night I heard her cries. Loud was the wind; the rain beat hard on the hill. Before morning appeared, her voice was weak. It died away, like the evening breeze among the grass of the rocks.
Page 133 - When the storms of the mountain come ; when the north lifts the waves on high : I sit by the sounding shore, and look on the fatal rock.
Page 132 - I faw her by the faint beam of the moon. All night I heard her cries. Loud .was the wind; and the rain beat hard on the fide of the mountain. Before morning appeared, her voice was weak. It died away, like the evening-breeze among the grafs of the rocks. Spent with grief fhe expired.
Page 89 - You are unfortunate. fortunate, and I envy your lot : Full of hopes you go to gather flowers for your princefs — in winter ! — and are grieved not to find any, and don't know why they cannot be found. — But as for me, I wander without hope, without defign, and I return as I came. To your difordered fancy it appears that if the States General paid you, you fhould be a man of confequence; and happy it is for you that you can attribute your fufferings to any foreign power. You do not know, you...
Page 133 - Half-vicwlefs, they walk in mournful conference together. Will none of you fpeak in pity ? They do not regard their father.
Page 87 - It is about fix months," flie anfwered, " fince he has been calm as he is now, and I thank Heaven for it •, ' he was one whole year quite raving, and chained down in a mad-houfe ; now he does no harm to any body, but he talks of nothing but kings and emperors. He was a very good young man, and helped to maintain me ; he wrote a very fine hand : and all of a fudden he became melancholy, was feized with a burning fever, grew diftrafted, and is now as you fee. If I was to tell you, Sir" «-— I interrupted...
Page 144 - She loves me ! thefe arms have encircled her waift, thefe lips have trembled upon hers ; fhe is mine — Yes, Charlotte ! you are mine for ever ! Albert is your hufband; but what of that ? it is for this life only.— And in this life only it is a crime to love you, to...
Page 120 - I have patted a dreadful night— or rather let me call it a propitious one ; for it has determined me, it has fixed my purpofe ; I am refolved to die. When I tore myfelf from you yefterday, my fenfes were in the greateft tumult and diforder ; my heart was oppreffed...
Page 70 - I am to this family — every thing — my friends cfteem me, are made happy by me, and my heart cannot conceive that any thing could exift without them ; and yet if I was now to go, if I was to quit this circle, would they feel, how long would they feel that void in their life, which the...