Werter

The garden sloped gently downward till it merged into a beautiful lake called the Werter See, which, stretching out several miles to the west, in the heart of the thick-wooded hills, trembled like a thin sheet of silver.

The Puppet Crown Harold MacGrath 1901

"Werter" has certainly the very droop and bewilderment of youth's first passion.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

I have sent you "Werter," truly happy to have any the smallest opportunity of obliging you.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

But I thought Werter himself a more divine being than I had ever beheld or imagined; his character contained no pretension, but it sunk deep.

Chapter 15 2010

In the 'Sorrows of Werter,' besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed, and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects, that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and astonishment.

Chapter 15 2010

This book had a far different effect upon me from the 'Sorrows of Werter.'

Chapter 15 2010

I found my Werter – Guskov in the middle of a tiny kitchen-garden, a few steps from the lodge, near the old framework of a never-finished hut, overgrown with nettles.

A Desperate Character 2006

Then we reverted to “The Sorrows of Werter,” and discussed the merits of that sublime performance.

The Paris Sketch Book 2006

Had Jones been consulted by any other disappointed Civil Service Werter as to the expediency of complaining to the Treasury Lords, Jones would have told him exactly what would be the result.

The Three Clerks 2004

This book had a far different effect upon me from the Sorrows of Werter.

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004