Note 25 — Chapter III · FIRST VENTURES 1838-1844
Reading edition
“Goethe’s poetic sense was the Minotaur to which he sacrificed everything. To make a study he would soil the maiden petals of a woman’s soul.”—“Lessing,” in Literary Essays, ii. 195.
Reading edition
“Goethe’s poetic sense was the Minotaur to which he sacrificed everything. To make a study he would soil the maiden petals of a woman’s soul.”—“Lessing,” in Literary Essays, ii. 195.