Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Goethe” in chapter 1 of Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America.:
...ore Lessing; if Germany had possessed a great literature for six centuries, with names in it like Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, probably Dr. Hermann Grimm would not have thought it necessary to call Goethe the greatest poet that has ever lived.
But the Americans in the rage for comparison-making beat the world.
Whatever excellence is mentioned, America must, if possible, be brought in to balance or...
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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 | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.