"What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit:
What's genuine, shall Posterity inherit."
#OTD in 1829.
The first complete performance of Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy (1808), adapted by August Klingemann, in Braunschweig.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust,_Part_One
Faust at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/14591