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  2. Erdgeist - Wikipedia

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    Faust and Erdgeist, illustration by Goethe. Erdgeist is the spirit of the Earth that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe describes in Faust, Part One. 'Du, Geist der Erde, bist mir näher; schon fühl ich meine Kräfte höher,...' Goethe depicts Erdgeist as a timeless being who endlessly weaves on the loom of time—both in life and in death. In this ...

  3. Faust, Part One - Wikipedia

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    Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie, pronounced [faʊ̯st ˈaɪ̯nə tʁaˈɡøːdi̯ə] ⓘ, or Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust. The tragedy's first part]) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. [1]

  4. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans. It was published in German in 1810 and in English in 1840. [1] The book contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.

  5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Georg Goethe was married twice, his first marriage was to Anna Elisabeth Lutz (1667–1700), the daughter of a burgher Sebastian Lutz (died 1701), with whom he had five children, including Hermann Jakob Goethe (1697–1761), after the death of his first wife in 1705 he married Cornelia Schellhorn, née Walther (1668–1754), widow of ...

  6. Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the ...

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    According to this theory, the creation of colour is dependent on the distribution of dark and light reflecting through a transparent object. [5] Turner uses concepts from Goethe's theory, which is a rejection of Newton's Seven Colour Theory , and expresses the belief that every colour is an individualised combination of light and darkness.

  7. Reading group discussion guide for Oprah's book club ... - AOL

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    Dive deeper into Eckhart Tolle's transformative book, "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose," with our comprehensive reader's guide.

  8. Goethe's Faust - Wikipedia

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    Kaufmann's version preserves Goethe's metres and rhyme schemes, but objected to translating all of Part Two into English, believing that "To let Goethe speak English is one thing; to transpose into English his attempt to imitate Greek poetry in German is another." [6] Phillip Wayne: Part One (1949) and Part Two (1959) for Penguin Books. [12]

  9. Best Horror Movie Quotes of All Time - AOL

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    Find out the origins of some of the most famous horror movie lines. Horror movies are responsible for some of the most memorable movie quotes of all time. Whether it's a character summing up ...