...This last couplet reminds one, in its turn, of another passage in which Arnold deals with Goethe: ' He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou attest here, and here !' Mrs. Browning has a reference to Goethe's ' reaching eye,' and a minor poet...

...last couplet reminds one, iil its turn,« another passage in which Arnold deals with „ Goethe: ;j ' He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...weakness clear, And struck his finger on the place, ';o; And said : Thou attest here, and here !' Mrs. Browning has a reference to Goethe's ' reaching...

...This last couplet reminds one, in its turn, of another passage in which Arnold deals with Goethe : ' He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear, And struck his ringer on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here !' Mrs. Browning has a reference to Goethe's...

...breadth of intellect, who could write with impassive mind a poem that would make others weep : — " He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear, He laid his hand upon the place And said, ' Thou ailest here and here.' " Deep was his knowledge of...

...lament over what has been lost is mingled with a far-off hint of the only possible restoration — 1 " Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage....struck his finger on the place, And said : " Thou attest here, and here ! " Arnold's Poems, Memorial Verses, April, 1850. " Woe, woe, thou hast destroyed...

...Wordsworth, Essay in Criticism, Second Series. • Celtic Literature (Everyman Ed.), p. 128 • Jbid.^ p. 130 He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place And said — Thou ailest here, and here. — He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; His...

...religion. Goethe was his saint and ideal, " Europe's sagest head," " the physician of the iron age." " He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said, Thou attest here, and here ! " But the more Arnold came to feel the historical reality of Jesus, the more...

...worshippers the distinction that he was a " demonic " man, superior to patriotism and other prejudices. "He took the suffering human race, He read each wound,...And struck his finger on the place, And said, Thou ml ml here and here. " Such, let us add, was Augustine's " intrepidity;" and if we are to be Stoics...

...served for that Titanic strife. When Goethe's death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his...And struck his finger on the place, And said: Thou ailest Here, and herd He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power ; The turmoil...

...served for that Titanic strife. When Goethe's death was told, we said: Sunk, then, is Europe's sagest head. Physician of the iron age, Goethe has done his...And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou attest here, and here ! He look'd on Europe's dying hour Of fitful dream and feverish power; His eye...