"Überreizt von der schwierigen und gefährlichen, eben jetzt eine höchste Behutsamkeit, Umsicht, Eindringlichkeit und G…"

"Aschenbach ... had, at least ever since he commanded means to get about the world at will, regarded travel as a neces…"

"And so the new impulse which thus late and suddenly swept over him was speedily made to conform to the pattern of sel…"

"He thought of his work, and the place where yesterday and again today he had been forced to lay it down, since it wou…"

"To him it seemed his work had ceased to be marked by that fiery play of fancy which is the product of joy, and more, …"

"Outsiders might be pardoned for believing that his Maia world and the epic amplitude revealed by the life of Frederic…"

"For an intellectual product of any value to exert an immediate influence which shall also be deep and lasting, it mus…"

"What discipline, what precision of thought were expressed by the tense youthful perfection of this form! And yet the …"

"Mirror and image! His eyes took in the proud bearing of that figure there at the blue water’s edge; with an outburst …"

"Amor, in sooth, is like the mathematician who in order to give children a knowledge of pure form must do so in the la…"