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In the translation by S.M. Fuller, the full context is thus: “Goethe read in the French periodical, the ‘Times,’ an article on the enormous salaries of the English clergy, who receive more than all other ecclesiastics in Christendom put together. ‘It has been maintained,’ said ...
In 1734 he published an English translation of the Koran, which soon thereafter was translated into German, Dutch and French. For a century it remained one of the main sources from which educated Europeans informed themselves on all questions involving the Koran. Sale looked upon his work ...
The goal here is the same. Us. And How! BothFaustand Zen preach the same method of acting in the world and achieving our goals. The word,Zen, translates into English as, “How.” And that how isn’t maximal effort. It’swu wei. “Men err as long as they do strive.” (Goethe)...
17. In his extraordinarily enthusiastic English-language biography, Boyle comprehensibly equates the brother Martin in Goethe’s Götz with Martin Luther. Nevertheless, although he quite rightly compares Lerse from Götz with Goethe’s childhood friend in Strasbourg of the same name ‘(the most...
(1987–94), is an outstanding verse translation of both parts of the play, with useful notes, by an English writer. There are also excellent American versions under the same title byAlice Raphael(1930), which translates part one; and byMartin Greenberg, 2 vol. (1992–98); the fine ...