In Germany, they are universally known,and are considered as the most delightful of his works. In five days more we came to Veussima, upon the river Witzogda, andrunning into the Dwina:we were there, very happily, nearof our travels by land, that river being navigable, in seven days'passage, to Archangel.From hence we came to Lawremskoy, the 3rdof July and providing ourselves with two luggage boats, and abarge for our own convenience, we embarked the 7th, and arrived allsafe at Archangel the 18th having been a year, five months, andthree days on the journey, including our stay of about eight monthsat Tobolski.Īmong the infinitely varied effusions of Goethe's pen, perhapsthere are none which are of as general interest as his Poems,which breathe the very spirit of Nature, and embody the realmusic of the feelings. Remembering, then, the connection that, in a former century,was formed and riveted between your illustrious ancestor and himwhom it is the object of these pages to represent, I deem it ahappy augury that the link then established finds itself notwholly severed even now although its strength may beimmeasurably weakened in the comparison, inasmuch as this pagebrings them once more in contact, the one in the person of hisown descendant, the other in that of the translator of his Poems. Here the young lord took his leave of us, and went up the Elbe, inorder to go to the court of Vienna, where he resolved to seekprotection and could correspond with those of his father's friendswho were left alive.He did not part without testimonials ofgratitude for the service I had done him, and for my kindness tothe prince, his father.
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