Faust: A Dramatic PoemTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 322 pagina's |
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... English , the keenest insight and subtlest philosophy , combined with a fine poetic sensibility ; all this , and more , is re- Iquired in the translator of Faust . The chief characters , excepting one , are removed from the ordinary ...
... English , the keenest insight and subtlest philosophy , combined with a fine poetic sensibility ; all this , and more , is re- Iquired in the translator of Faust . The chief characters , excepting one , are removed from the ordinary ...
Pagina 2
... English reader cannot perceive the interpolations ! Usu- ally , even in translation there is so much of the MA original strength preserved , that the reader feels SON instinctively by its weakness what is added ; but here all is so ...
... English reader cannot perceive the interpolations ! Usu- ally , even in translation there is so much of the MA original strength preserved , that the reader feels SON instinctively by its weakness what is added ; but here all is so ...
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... English WASH verse , and if not in verse then certainly not in cts . prose . Even Shelley ( could hardly have sur- passed it ; though the translation that Shelley could have made has long been our ideal of an English Faust ...
... English WASH verse , and if not in verse then certainly not in cts . prose . Even Shelley ( could hardly have sur- passed it ; though the translation that Shelley could have made has long been our ideal of an English Faust ...
Pagina 4
... English , we must prefer Mr. Hay ts . ward's phrase , " dark strivings . " NG MAN . N. Price s SMITH . Round mountain - caverns with spirits hover , Float in thy gleamings , the meadows over , ddresses . W. And freed from the fumes of a ...
... English , we must prefer Mr. Hay ts . ward's phrase , " dark strivings . " NG MAN . N. Price s SMITH . Round mountain - caverns with spirits hover , Float in thy gleamings , the meadows over , ddresses . W. And freed from the fumes of a ...
Pagina 4
... English lovers of poetry a sublime tragedy hitherto mysteriously locked to all but German scholars , and whose flashing glories have hitherto been veiled or far removed , or only shown by glimpses . If imper- fect now and then , ( like ...
... English lovers of poetry a sublime tragedy hitherto mysteriously locked to all but German scholars , and whose flashing glories have hitherto been veiled or far removed , or only shown by glimpses . If imper- fect now and then , ( like ...
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alludes allusion already ALTMAYER amongst angel appears Auerbach's cellar beautiful Blocksberg Book of Job bosom BRANDER breast Brooks called change rings CHORUS Coleridge Cyprian devil Dies iræ earth Edinburgh Review edition English eternal evil Falk feel fire Franz Horn FROSCH gentleman German give Goethe Goethe's Faust hand happy hear heart heaven honor Kasperl light living look Lord Madame de Stael magic maiden MARGARET MARTHA meaning MEPHISTOPHELES mind MONKEYS mountain nature never night once original Paracelsus passage play pleasure poem poet poetical prose rival song round scene sense Shelley SIEBEL sing song sort soul spirit stand Stieglitz STUDENT sweet tell thee things thou art thou hast thought tion topheles translation verse voice WAGNER Walpurgis Night whilst whole wine wish WITCH word young
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Pagina 248 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Pagina 232 - 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 240 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Pagina 232 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Pagina 22 - Rendered almost word for word, without rhyme, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language will permit. WHAT slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours, Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness...
Pagina 217 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar; With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Pagina 241 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Pagina 274 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Pagina 278 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold : Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; 'The game is done! I've won, I've won!
Pagina 319 - Quid sum, miser ! tune dicturus ? Quern patronum rogaturus ? Cum vix Justus sit securus.