Collections on Ethics for All People (1788) - Page 14

⚠The lower half of the page has significant bleed-through (ghosting) from the text on the reverse side.

A small decorative horizontal vignette centered at the top, consisting of a flower flanked by scrolled leaves.

...more charming to her ear; — she wandered
about like a shadow, — and
approached [her end] like a flower of de-
cay original: "Blume der Verwesung." This morbid but poetic phrase suggests a beauty that is physically wilting away, a common theme in the "Sentimentalism" movement of the late 18th century. — she died. Female friends The German "Freundinnen" denotes a specifically female group of friends.,
who loved her, placed a monument for her in the
gloomy fir forest — and carved
into a hundred-year-old oak this epi-
taph:

Oh rest softly until we meet again,

Unfortunate lost soul original: "Verirrte." While it literally means one who has lost their way, in this moral context, it refers to a woman who has "strayed" from the path of virtue or social propriety..

And may a curse come from Olympus’s heights original: "Olimpus Höhen." A reference to the Greek mountain of the gods, calling for divine vengeance from the pagan heavens.

Upon the one who seduced you.