The sorrows of Werter Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dwell in my soul, and absorb all its powers, like the idea of a beloved mistress. Oh that I could express, that I could describe these great conceptions with the... more » same warmth, with the same energy, that they are impressed on my soul! but the sublimity of them astonishes and overpowers rte. May 13. t. AIRIES and Genii hover over my steps, or the most lively ,imagination influences my senses, and fills my heart. All paradise is befbTe me. Here is a fountain, to which I am attached by a sort of enchantment, like Melusink and her sisters'. ' ft rs a spring of pure and clear water, whicfi gushes from the rock, in a cave at the bottom.of one of the hills; about twenty rough step's lead to it; the high trees which hang over it, the cool refreshing air of the place, every thing is agreeable, interesting, striking. I never fail to go to it every day, and generally pass an hour there. The young girls come from the town to fetch water from it —innocent and necessary employment, and formerly the occupation of king's daughters. The time of the patriarchs presents itself to my imagination. I see our ancestors concluding treaties and making alliances by the side of fountains) propitious angels bearing witness. Whoever does not enter into these sensations, my dear friend, has never really enjoyed cool repose by the side of a cpring after a long summer's walk. LETTER IT. May 13. JL OU offer me books; I will have nothing to do with them: for heaven's sake don't send me any. I don't wish to be again guided, heated, agitated. Alas ! my heart is of itself but too much agitated 'already. I want strains that may lull me ; and Homer furnishes them in abundance, OftenOften have I strove to calm the blood, that seemed boiling in my veins; often have I endeavoured to stop the keen and su...« less