Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Goethe” in chapter 4 of Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America.:
...nd the interest which human nature seeks from enjoying the effect made upon it by what is elevated, the case is much the same.
There is very little to create such an effect, very much to thwart it. Goethe says somewhere that the thrill of awe is the best thing humanity has :--
Das Schaudern ist der Menschheit bestes Theil.
But, if there be a discipline in which the Americans are wanting, it...
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Goethe | 500 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| J. W. Von Goethe | 104 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Wolfgang A. Von Goethe | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| J. W. Goethe | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Wolfgang Von Goethe | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| A. M. Goethe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Henry Goethe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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