02636cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500340014626400510018030000470023133600260027833700260030433800360033050000310036650801880039752015880058553400590217365300200223285600390225285600430229178383UtSlPG20260610134822.0mcr n260607r20261774utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ade2iso639-1 4aPT1 aBerghofer, Amand,d1745-182510aEmpfindungen aus meinem Leben 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-07  aRichard Illner, Alpo Tiilikka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Austrian National Library)  aEmpfindungen aus meinem Leben by Amand Berghofer is a collection of lyrical and philosophical reflections—interweaving poems and prose meditations—written in the late 18th century. In the sentimental, nature-centered vein, it explores the inner life of a reflective narrator who turns from urban vanity to the healing presence of nature, the claims of love and virtue, and the consolations of faith, with a persistent attention to melancholy, mortality, and the hope of immortality.

The book opens with a preface defending true poetry as the dignity of humankind, then follows a first-person retreat from the city to a secluded, sacred landscape where the speaker seeks reconciliation with fate. Alternating pieces trace tender melancholy, self-exhortation, and rapturous communion with nature while denouncing courtly pride and celebrating rural simplicity, compassion, and moderate pleasure (wine, song, humane feeling). The narrator yearns for an ideal beloved, includes a translated lay of willing love-suffering, and wrestles to align passion with virtue. Midway the mood deepens into meditations on the sources of dejection, memories of innocent youth, and a long graveyard scene confronting death and the limits of worldly glory. Nocturnal and “midnight” hymns elevate thought toward divine grandeur and the soul’s eternity; the soul addresses its sleeping body, preparing for both a new day and the beyond. The work closes by locating true rest not in this life but beyond the grave, sealed with a serene self-epitaph. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cWien: Joseph Kurzböcken, 1774  aAustrian poetry4 uhttps://viewer.onb.ac.at/10417F81/40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78383