 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - France - 1849 - 380 pages
...making some odd comparisons that forced themselves irresistibly on my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public. Baron Breteuil lived... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1849 - 384 pages
...making some odd comparisons that forced themselves irresistibly on my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public. Baron Breteuil lived... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public." He fell in with a collection... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humor of the public.' He fell in with a collection... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humor of the public.' He fell in with a collection... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 368 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind: they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humnur of the public.' He fell in with a collection... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 620 pages
...themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who chooso the pieces, distribute the parts, and move about unseen...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public." He fell in with a collection... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 460 pages
...us that it would be necessary to prepare for leaving Verdun the following morning at eight o'clock. Although I had found some genuine and valuable friends...exertions to fortune and the humour of the public. Greatly annoyed at being obliged so hastily to leave our quarters and our newly-acquired home, before... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1902 - 446 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public." He fell in with a collection... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1902 - 848 pages
...making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they appeared to me as so many playhouse directors, who choose the pieces,...actors, doing their best, and well prompted, have to commit the result of their exertions to fortune and the humour of the public." He fell in with a collection... | |
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I had already found among the diplomatic corps some genuine and valuable friends, I could not refrain, so often as I saw them in the midst of these great movements, from making some odd comparisons which forced themselves irresistibly upon my mind : they... 
