Faust: A Dramatic PoemTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 322 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... better understood . The subsequent sudden and almost simultaneous appearance of seven or eight new translations , affords a fair presumption that the desired object has been at least partially attained ; and , from the circumstance of ...
... better understood . The subsequent sudden and almost simultaneous appearance of seven or eight new translations , affords a fair presumption that the desired object has been at least partially attained ; and , from the circumstance of ...
Pagina 11
... better wedded to his own original thoughts , and which , were they the happiest and most musical in the world , can never ring out natural and concording music to aspirations born in another time , clime , and place , nor har- monize ...
... better wedded to his own original thoughts , and which , were they the happiest and most musical in the world , can never ring out natural and concording music to aspirations born in another time , clime , and place , nor har- monize ...
Pagina 21
... better than by the following extract from a German Review . It forms part of a critical notice of a work by M. Rosenkranz , and ( with all its exaggeration and enthusiasm ) may be taken as a fair sample of the light in which Faust is ...
... better than by the following extract from a German Review . It forms part of a critical notice of a work by M. Rosenkranz , and ( with all its exaggeration and enthusiasm ) may be taken as a fair sample of the light in which Faust is ...
Pagina 36
... better life of it , had you not given him a glimmering of heaven's light . He calls it reason , and uses it only to be the most brutal of brutes . He seems to me , with your Grace's leave , like one of the long - legged grasshoppers ...
... better life of it , had you not given him a glimmering of heaven's light . He calls it reason , and uses it only to be the most brutal of brutes . He seems to me , with your Grace's leave , like one of the long - legged grasshoppers ...
Pagina 39
... better and convert mankind . Then I have neither land nor money , nor honor and rank in the world . No dog would like to live so any longer . I have therefore de- voted myself to magic - 20 whether , through the power and voice of the ...
... better and convert mankind . Then I have neither land nor money , nor honor and rank in the world . No dog would like to live so any longer . I have therefore de- voted myself to magic - 20 whether , through the power and voice of the ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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
Populaire passages
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.