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Goethe and Schiller's Xenions

Chapter 254: INDEX.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A selection of concise satirical epigrams rendered in elegiac distich form by two leading German poets, offering pointed judgments on literary taste, critics, fashionable opinion, and the conflicts between pietism and rationalism. Many couplets target named figures and domestic literary squabbles, while others condense reflections on philosophy, science, art, morality, and religion into aphoristic remarks. The collection is organized into thematic sections and supplemented by a historical preface, critical notes, and translator commentary, producing a compact volume that alternates personal satire with succinct philosophical and aesthetic observation.

INDEX.

Index.

  • Action and motives, 44.
  • Admiration Society, Mutual, 58.
  • Analytical truth-seekers, 158.
  • Answer, My, 97, 105, 107.
  • Anti-Xenions, 9.
  • Apollo, 85.
  • Appearance not sham, 101.
  • Aristotle, 94.
  • Art, 56, 130; Christian, 168.
  • Astronomers, 133.
  • Authority, Those in, 71.
  • Authors, Two different, 60, 61.
  • Baal priests, 45.
  • Barkers, 71.
  • Beauty, Oneness of, 38.
  • Beethoven, 3.
  • Being and possession, 36.
  • Belles lettres, Servant and, 62.
  • Berkeley, 99.
  • Bigot and philosopher, 144.
  • Bigots, 143; (Schwärmer), 25.
  • Blank verse, 19-21.
  • Boisterous, 28.
  • Born is the poet, 129.
  • Bottle wine, How to, 119.
  • Bubble in me, A, 99.
  • Bucolic caesura, 16-17.
  • Caesura, 14-15, 171;
  • Bucolic, 16-17.
  • Catalectic, 14.
  • Celestial repasts, Pleasure in, 145.
  • Changes and oneness, 162.
  • Christian art, 168.
  • Clerics, 160.
  • Coin, 73;
  • Depreciated, 159.
  • Collector, The, 78.
  • Color and light, 162.
  • Columbus, 136-137.
  • Committee, A, 74.
  • Common natures and noble ones, 147.
  • Conception makes three, 104.
  • Connoisseur, 86.
  • Conscience, 107.
  • Cork-tree, The, 119.
  • Counters, Valueless, 73.
  • Cow or goddess, 132.
  • Creation, 131.
  • Creator and world, 135.
  • Critics, 54, 68.
  • Crudity, 79.
  • Dactylic pentameter, 21-22.
  • Danube, Nicolai on the, 77.
  • Death, 46; and immortality, 48.
  • Descartes, 96; Answer to, 97.
  • Destinies, Various, 39.
  • Devil, Licentiousness and the, 63.
  • Dilettante, 59.
  • Discipline, 156.
  • Discussion and monologues, 64.
  • Dissection, 72.
  • Distich a fountain, 27;
  • The elegiac, 13ff.
  • Distinction, 147.
  • Divinity, 42.
  • Dreamers, 142.
  • Dunce, The whole a, 74.
  • Dupe will turn rogue, 84.
  • Duty, Our, 151.
  • Empiricists, 113.
  • Enemy useful, 146.
  • Enthusiast, 5, 56, 159.
  • Erring will harm, 155.
  • Error and truth, 157, 159;
  • hid, 112;
  • is error, 153;
  • Truth dearer than, 154.
  • Errors, 126.
  • Eternity, 40.
  • Eyes in the mud, 144.
  • Facts and their treatment, 61.
  • Fate, Our common, 29.
  • Father, Our, 164.
  • Fathom thyself, 35.
  • Fichte, 103.
  • Fiction and truth, 134.
  • Flaw, A, 112.
  • Folly and insanity, 43.
  • Foot and meter, 13.
  • Form, Truth and, 130.
  • Formless material, 78.
  • Fountain, The distich a, 27.
  • Friend and enemy, 146.
  • Frog, 72.
  • Genius, a gift, 129;
  • and nature, 37, 136;
  • when it slips, 43.
  • Gift, Genius a, 129.
  • Goddess or cow, 132.
  • Goethe and Schiller, 3ff, et passim.
  • Good from the bad, 131.
  • Goodness and greatness, 149.
  • Growth, Propagation and, 39.
  • Hades, Philosophers in, 91-108.
  • Half-bird, The, 89.
  • Harmony, 34.
  • Heart and reason, 34;
  • of hearts, Thine own, 35.
  • Hedonists, Theological, 145.
  • Hell, 169.
  • Hephthemimeres, 16.
  • Heracles, Zeus to, 42.
  • Hermes, Timotheus, 63, 168.
  • Heroic hexameter, 17.
  • Highest, The, 141.
  • Homer, 55, 167.
  • Honest throughout, Be, 150.
  • Horen, Die, 6f.
  • Human, knowledge, 124-125;
  • life, 47.
  • Hume, David, 102.
  • Huss, 30, 167.
  • Hypocrites (Heuchler), 25.
  • I and not-I, 103.
  • Iambic trimeter, 19-21.
  • Ice-floe, 49.
  • Ideal, Road to, 46.
  • Imitations, 131.
  • Immortality and death, 48.
  • Immutable, The, 40.
  • Incompetent reviewers, 54.
  • Indestructible, 49.
  • Insanity, Folly and, 43.
  • Investigation, Questionable, 72.
  • Irreligious, Not, 163.
  • Jacobi, F. H., 61, 167.
  • Kant, 3, 101, 102, 169, 170, 171;
  • and his interpreters, 118.
  • Kantian’s decision, The, 123.
  • Key, The, 35.
  • Language and logic spoiled, 57;
  • qualitative and quantitative, 18;
  • shaping verse, 59.
  • Lavater, Johann Caspar, 88, 168.
  • Leibniz, 100.
  • Letter, Spirit and, 73.
  • Licentiousness and the Devil, 63.
  • Life limited, 47.
  • Light and color, 162.
  • Logic and language spoiled, 57.
  • Longfellow, 17.
  • Luther, 167.
  • Madness, Join in, 28.
  • Majolica pot, 86.
  • Martial’s Xenia, 7, 8.
  • Martyr, The last, 30.
  • Martyrs, 84.
  • Metaphysics for sale, 111.
  • Meter and foot, 13.
  • Method, Our, 26.
  • Modern criticism, 76.
  • Moment, The great, 67.
  • Monologues and discussion, 64.
  • Moral Problem, A, 122.
  • Moralists void of sense, 8.
  • Moritz, Karl Philip, 60, 167.
  • Motives and action, 44.
  • Muse, The poet and his, 53.
  • Musen-Almanach, 7, 8.
  • Mutual Admiration Society, 58.
  • Mystics, 161.
  • Natural law, 120, 170.
  • Naturalist and poet, 135.
  • Nature, and reason, 37;
  • Genius and, 136;
  • Law of, 41;
  • misrepresented, 143.
  • Nectar, 42.
  • Newton’s theory of color, 169.
  • Nicolai, 5f, 168;
  • Motto of, 80;
  • on the Danube, 77.
  • Noble and common natures, 147.
  • Nose for smelling, 120.
  • Nothing, I thought, 97.
  • Olympian gods, 85.
  • One thing needed, 150.
  • Oneness and changes, 162;
  • Difference in, 152;
  • Indicated, 100;
  • of beauty, 38.
  • Onion, Truth not an, 158.
  • Open secret, 161.
  • Ostrich, The, 89.
  • Parnassus, 85.
  • Part of the whole, 151.
  • Parties, 90.
  • Pentameter, Dactylic, 21-22.
  • Penthemimeres, 15, 21.
  • Perfection, 148.
  • Philistines, 5, 25, 142.
  • Philosopher and bigot, 144.
  • Philosophy will remain, 108.
  • Piety and science, 142.
  • Plant unconscious, 141.
  • Platitudes, 76.
  • Platner, 168.
  • Pleasure and virtue, 122;
  • in celestial repasts, 145.
  • Poet and his muse, The, 53;
  • and naturalist, 135;
  • is born, The, 129.
  • Poetical deviltry, 8.
  • Poetry, Purpose of, 134.
  • Possession and being, 36.
  • Practical, 106.
  • Press is thinking, 81.
  • Problem, A moral, 122.
  • Propagation and growth, 39.
  • Prophet, The, 88.
  • Prose, 26.
  • Prudence and wisdom, 138.
  • Publisher, A, 81.
  • Puffendorf, 120-121; 170.
  • Purpose, of poetry, 134;
  • Our, 25.
  • Pythia, 82.
  • Reason, and heart, 34;
  • and nature, 37;
  • and truth, 171.
  • Reason’s divinity, 143.
  • Refuge, Specialist the last, 115.
  • Reichardt, 168.
  • Reinhold, Karl Leonard, 164, 169.
  • Religion, 163.
  • Repetition, 153.
  • Repetitions, Vain, 160.
  • Reviewers, Incompetent, 54.
  • Ritual, 160.
  • Sale, Metaphysics for, 111.
  • Salvation, 46.
  • Schiller, 170;
  • and Goethe, 3ff, et passim.
  • Schmidt, K. C. F., 106.
  • Science, 132;
  • and piety, 142;
  • and transcendental philosophy, 116, 117.
  • Scoundrel, Stuff for a, 88.
  • Secret, open, 161; remains, 50.
  • Sentiment and thoughts, 33.
  • Sentimentalists, 5, 87.
  • Servant and belles lettres, 62.
  • Socrates, 82.
  • Soul, Thing and, 101.
  • Souls, Let us interchange, 36.
  • Specialist the last refuge, 115.
  • Spinoza, 98.
  • Spirit and letter, 73.
  • Star-constellations, 124.
  • Stilling, Heinrich, 87, 168.
  • Stolberg, The Brothers, 7, 85, 168.
  • Strength and weakness, 41.
  • Sublimity not in space, 133.
  • Sully, Your hands, 79.
  • Systems, Philosophical, 126.
  • Taste in a watering place, 75.
  • Teleology, 119.
  • Teutonic languages, 18.
  • Theoreticians, 114.
  • Thing, and soul, 101;
  • of all things, 98.
  • “Things in themselves” to be sold, 111.
  • Thoughts and sentiment, 33.
  • Three, Conception makes, 104.
  • Time, 40.
  • Transcendent and transcendental, 169.
  • Transcendental, idealism, 169;
  • philosophy, Natural science and, 116, 117.
  • Trochaic trimeter, 14.
  • True universally, 95.
  • Trust in scientific truth, 136.
  • Truth, and error, 157, 159;
  • and fiction, 134;
  • and form, 130;
  • and her appearance, 152;
  • and reason, 171;
  • dearer than error, 154;
  • My, 80;
  • not an onion, 158;
  • Trust in scientific, 136;
  • will punish, 156.
  • Universally true, 95.
  • Urgent, 95.
  • Value and worth, 36.
  • Vanity, 69.
  • Various destinies, 39.
  • Verse is impressive, 26;
  • Language shaping, 59.
  • Vinculum, 69.
  • Virtue and pleasure, 122.
  • Voss, Johann Heinrich, 11, 12.
  • Wanted, 62.
  • Weakness and strength, 41.
  • Whole, Part of the, 151,
  • Wisdom and prudence, 138.
  • Wolf, 55, 167.
  • Wolff, Caspar Friedrich, 3.
  • World, Creator and, 135.
  • Worth and value, 36.
  • Wretches, 68.
  • Xenions, and Xenia, 8;
  • History of the, 3ff.
  • Zeus to Heracles, 42.