Goethean
Americanadjective
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This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ideal was a Goethean panorama in which sublimity and scientific curiosity were inextricably mingled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another contribution to Goethean literature is the Correspondence between the great Poet and his intimate friend Knebel, which has just appeared in Germany in two volumes.
From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various
A catalogue of the Goethean literature in Germany, from 1793 to 1851, has been published by Balde, at Cassel, and in London by Williams and Norgate.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various
At a thousand points he is the only modern literary figure who draws us towards him with the old Leonardian, Goethean spell.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper
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