Faust: A Dramatic PoemTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - 322 pages |
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... MEPHISTOPHEles . Since , Lord , you approach once again , and inquire how things are going on with us , and on other occasions were not displeased to see me - therefore is it that you see me also amongst your suite . Excuse me , I ...
... MEPHISTOPHEles . Since , Lord , you approach once again , and inquire how things are going on with us , and on other occasions were not displeased to see me - therefore is it that you see me also amongst your suite . Excuse me , I ...
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... MEPHISTOPHELES . The Doctor ? THE LORD . My servant ! MEPHISTOPHELES . Verily he serves you after a fashion of his own . The fool's meat and drink are not of earth . The fer- ment of his spirit impels him towards the far away . He ...
... MEPHISTOPHELES . The Doctor ? THE LORD . My servant ! MEPHISTOPHELES . Verily he serves you after a fashion of his own . The fool's meat and drink are not of earth . The fer- ment of his spirit impels him towards the far away . He ...
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... MEPHISTOPHELES . I salute your learned worship . You have made me sweat with a vengeance . FAUST . What is thy name ? Mephistopheles . The question strikes me as trifling for one who rates the Word so low ; who , far estranged from all ...
... MEPHISTOPHELES . I salute your learned worship . You have made me sweat with a vengeance . FAUST . What is thy name ? Mephistopheles . The question strikes me as trifling for one who rates the Word so low ; who , far estranged from all ...
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... MEPHISTOPHEles . I tell thee the modest truth . Although man , that microcosm of folly , commonly esteems himself a whole , I am a part of the part , which in the beginning was all ; a part of the darkness which brought forth light ...
... MEPHISTOPHEles . I tell thee the modest truth . Although man , that microcosm of folly , commonly esteems himself a whole , I am a part of the part , which in the beginning was all ; a part of the darkness which brought forth light ...
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... MEPHISTOPHELES . We will think about it in good earnest ― more of that anon ! Might I be permitted this time to depart ? FAUST . I see not why you ask . I have now made acquaint- ance with you ; call on me in future as you feel in ...
... MEPHISTOPHELES . We will think about it in good earnest ― more of that anon ! Might I be permitted this time to depart ? FAUST . I see not why you ask . I have now made acquaint- ance with you ; call on me in future as you feel in ...
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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 irę 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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Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 241 - The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!
Page 274 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Page 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!
Page 319 - Quid sum, miser ! tune dicturus ? Quern patronum rogaturus ? Cum vix Justus sit securus.