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by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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Title: FAUST, VOL. I
Author: JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Classic Literature Collection
World Public Library.org
Title: FAUST, VOL. I
Author: JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Language: English
Subject: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: World Public Library Association
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BY
JOHANN
WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
TRANSLATED,
IN THE ORIGINAL
METRES,
BY
BAYARD TAYLOR
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
VOL. I,
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vergtehm,
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II.
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Giants^
mit kiihnerHand:
Du lost die R&thsel altes... ... myself
in
them,
in
lonely hours,
but
without
committing anything
to
writing.
Most of
all,
I
concealed from Herder
my mystic-cabalistic chemistry,
and
everything
connected with it'*
The text of various
puppet-plays,
which has been recov-
ered
by
Simrock,
Von der
Hagen,
and other zealous German
scholars... ...in the
year 1788;
but his immediate model was
undoubtedly
the German
Easter-hymn
of the Middle
Ages,
many
variations of which are
given
in
Wackernagel's
work.
One of
these, dating
from the thirteenth
century,
thus com-
mences:
"
Christus ist erstanden
gewaerliche
von dem
tot,
von alien sinen Banden
ist...