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title: "The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther"
author: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
translator: "R. D. Boylan"
title_de: "Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther"
languages: [de, en]
shelf: "Literature"
section: 68 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/68/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 68. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/68/"
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# The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan*

German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther

A young man falls in love with Lotte, who is promised to another, and writes it all to a friend: the letters that made Goethe famous and all Europe weep, in German and English.

> German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Hamburger Ausgabe, Band 6 (Project Gutenberg #2407 and #2408, prepared by Michael Pullen, proofread by Dr. Mary Cicora).

> English: The Sorrows of Young Werther, translated by R. D. Boylan, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole (Project Gutenberg #2527). The translator’s preface has no German counterpart in this edition.

## 68. Book II · October 10

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/68/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/68/#p-N

[¶0] October 10

> German: Am 10. Oktober

[¶1] Only to gaze upon her dark eyes is to me a source of happiness! And what grieves me, is, that Albert does not seem so happy as he—hoped to be—as I should have been—if—I am no friend to these pauses, but here I cannot express it otherwise; and probably I am explicit enough.

> German: Wenn ich nur ihre schwarzen Augen sehe, ist mir es schon wohl! Sieh, und was mich verdrießt, ist, daß Albert nicht so beglückt zu sein scheinet, als er--hoffte--als ich--zu sein glaubte--wenn--ich mache nicht gern Gedankenstriche, aber hier kann ich mich nicht anders ausdrücken--und mich dünkt deutlich genug.