Faust: A Dramatic Poem

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Edward Moxon, 1838 - 305 pagina's

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Pagina 207 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire."—St. Paul, Heb. i. 7. " The sightless couriers of the earth."— Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7. " The day is placid in its going, To a lingering sweetness bound, Like a river in its flowing."— Wordsworth.
Pagina 276 - And by the long stone-wall. And then an open field they crossed : The marks were still the same ; They tracked them on, nor ever lost; •., And to the bridge they came. They followed from the snowy bank Those footmarks, one by one, Into the middle of the plank ; And further there were none !
Pagina 270 - The blood of man thickens at its chill look.]— " Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold, Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mair Life-in-Death was she Who thicks man's blood with cold."— Coleridge,
Pagina 266 - Coffins stood round like open presses, That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish cantrip slight, Each in his cauld hand held a light,— By which heroic Tarn was able To note upon the haly table, A murderer's banes in
Pagina 274 - a dog or other animal, with the view of tripping him up and springing upon him when down. Thus Caliban, in allusion to the spirits set upon him by Prospero :— " Some time like apes, that moe and chatter at me, And after, bite me; then like hedge-hogs, which Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way."— Tempest, Act ii. sc. 2. P.
Pagina 219 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all.
Pagina 251 - They looked up to the sky, whose floating glow Spread like a rosy ocean, vast and bright: They gazed upon the glittering sea below, Whence the broad moon rose circling into sight; They heard the wave's splash, and the wind so low, And saw each other's dark eyes darting light Into each
Pagina 211 - Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end ? Affords this art no greater miracle? Then read no more; thou hast attain'd that end, A greater subject fitteth Faustus' wit: Bid economy farewell: and Galen come. Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eternized for some wondrous cure ; Summum bonum
Pagina 205 - I cannot tell why, this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the present world, half so stately and daintily as candle lights. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle,
Pagina 218 - the Godhead only has power to fill, I conclude, as undistractedly as I can, from the whole to the particular, from the particular to the whole."—(Ideen, bic 1.) The Spirits' chaunt probably suggested Shelley's — " Nature's vast frame- — the web of human things, Birth and the grave

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