Goethe on Shakespeare and Spinoza; No Specific Text Given [x]

Goethe on Shakespeare and Spinoza; No Specific Text Given [x]

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

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"Sunday. Read Scherr- Scholasticism, Universities and Roman law. Worked at Spinoza. Walked to the Neue Museum, but failed to get in. Came home and copied Goethe's Discourse on Shakspeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the passage in which he says he cannot presume to say that he thoroughly understands Spinoza. After Coffee read aloud G's M.S. of the Leipsic and beginning of the Strasburg Period. G. finished Lear- sublimely powerful!" Diary 1854-1861 40

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Goethe on Shakespeare and Spinoza; No Specific Text Given [x], George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57896