Date: 1774, rev. 1787, 1779 in English
"And yet I wish--Oh! my friend, 'tis like drawing a curtain before my heart--only to taste this felicity, and die and expiate my crimes.--My crimes!"
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"At such a time, when the encircling crust, like a soulless decaying tenement, crumbles away, and spirit displays itself arrayed in new youth, the seven league boots are at length adopted"
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)