Campaign in France in the Year 1792 Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1849 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: France Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) History / General History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may b... more »e typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 24th October. My friend had again obtained lodgings for me in the house of the same canon with whom I had lodged before. I had myself not altogether escaped from the general sickness, and I stood in need of some medicine and rest. In these tranquil moments I took up again the short remarks I had noted down before the monument at Ygel. To express the most general impression which it produces; here are displayed face to face, life and death, the present and the future, and both of them respectively, in an aesthetic sense, merged in each other. This was the glorious manner of the ancients, which was preserved for a considerable time in the world of art. The height of the monument may be about 70 feet, and it rises up, in the manner of an obelisk, in several architectural divisions; first the basis, above that a socle, then the chief mass of the structure; above this an attic, then a frontal; and last of all a curious pinnacle, that twines itself upwards, and displays the remains of a ball and an eagle. Each of these divisions is, with the parts of which it is composed, embellished over their whole surface with figures and ornaments. This peculiarity indicates it as the work of later times; for such things are introduced, assoon as the pure proportion of the whole is lost; in connexion with which many other points might be noticed. Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that this work is grounded on an immediately preceding higher style of...« less