Excerpt from The Works of J. W. Von Goethe, Vol. 14 of 14: With His Life With the year 1783 we see him more and more seriously occupied. He has ceased to be the Grand Master of all the Apes, and is deep in Old books and archives. The birth of a crown prince came to fill Weimar with joy, and give the duke a sudden serious ness. The baptism, Which took place on the 5th of February, was a great event in Weimar. Herder preached like a God, said Wieland, Whose cantata was sung on the occasion. Processions by torchlight, festivities of all kinds, poems from every poet, except Goethe, testified the people's joy. There is something very generous in this silence. It could not be at tributed to want of affection. But he who had been ever ready with ballet, Opera, or poem, to honour the birthday of the two duchesses, must have felt that now, When all the other Weimar writers were pouring in their offerings, he ought not to throw the weight of his position in the scale against them. Had his poem been the worst of the Offerings, it would have been prized the highest because it was his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.