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... interest if , in addition to Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles , we include Luther's Devil . It is scarcely necessary to premise that here there is to be no theological discussion . All that we propose is to compare , as we ...
... interest if , in addition to Milton's Satan and Goethe's Mephistopheles , we include Luther's Devil . It is scarcely necessary to premise that here there is to be no theological discussion . All that we propose is to compare , as we ...
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... interest in the innumerable glorious things that may be happening out of it , shall I not run the risk of degenerating into a smaller and meaner being ? In the course of ages of dealing with the puny offspring of these new beings , may ...
... interest in the innumerable glorious things that may be happening out of it , shall I not run the risk of degenerating into a smaller and meaner being ? In the course of ages of dealing with the puny offspring of these new beings , may ...
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... interest in other regions of the universe , in order that he may more thoroughly possess and impregnate this . Goethe's Mephistopheles is this same being after the toils and vicissitudes of six thousand years in his new vocation ...
... interest in other regions of the universe , in order that he may more thoroughly possess and impregnate this . Goethe's Mephistopheles is this same being after the toils and vicissitudes of six thousand years in his new vocation ...
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... interest in the grander physics ; and the consequence is , as he himself anticipated , that his nature , once great and magnificent , has become small , virulent , and shrunken , " Subdued To what it works in , like the dyer's hand ...
... interest in the grander physics ; and the consequence is , as he himself anticipated , that his nature , once great and magnificent , has become small , virulent , and shrunken , " Subdued To what it works in , like the dyer's hand ...
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... interest in it prevent him from allowing anything for good in his calculations . Το Mephistopheles the world seems going to perdition as fast as it can , while in the same universal confusion beings like the Archangels recognise the ...
... interest in it prevent him from allowing anything for good in his calculations . Το Mephistopheles the world seems going to perdition as fast as it can , while in the same universal confusion beings like the Archangels recognise the ...
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Page 84 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Page 212 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 11 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 25 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our...
Page 111 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
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Page 89 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Page 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 86 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.