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
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
I talk with a Goethean moderation on this subject, which rather surprises her and ——, who are nearer the entrance of the studio.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret
Later I shall speak of the new poets who grew up during the Goethean imperialism.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
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