Faust, with notes by G.G. Zerffi, Issue 64 |
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Page ix
... look on poetry as we look on the productions of nature ; for , like them , poetry is but the outgrowth of climate , time , religion , nationality , civilization , and so many outward and inward influences . Works of poetry must ...
... look on poetry as we look on the productions of nature ; for , like them , poetry is but the outgrowth of climate , time , religion , nationality , civilization , and so many outward and inward influences . Works of poetry must ...
Page xxiv
... look here , what am I doing ? First Spirit . Thou passest thy finger quickly through the flame of the light . Faust . And do I burn myself ? Well then pass as quickly seven times through Hell , and do not burn thyself ! Thou art silent ...
... look here , what am I doing ? First Spirit . Thou passest thy finger quickly through the flame of the light . Faust . And do I burn myself ? Well then pass as quickly seven times through Hell , and do not burn thyself ! Thou art silent ...
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... look on the world from our studies , and see it only at a distance as through a teles- cope . 39 If there is no higher inspiration , you will never learn to move the hearts of your hearers . ,, Was nicht vom Herzen kömmt , dringt nicht ...
... look on the world from our studies , and see it only at a distance as through a teles- cope . 39 If there is no higher inspiration , you will never learn to move the hearts of your hearers . ,, Was nicht vom Herzen kömmt , dringt nicht ...
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... look thereon . " 52 Faust breaks out into bitter satire as he thinks how his- torians substitute their own narrow thoughts for the spirit of by- gone times , and how apt they are to lay down their own biassed views as historical facts ...
... look thereon . " 52 Faust breaks out into bitter satire as he thinks how his- torians substitute their own narrow thoughts for the spirit of by- gone times , and how apt they are to lay down their own biassed views as historical facts ...
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... Philistines ; " the students , considering themselves as the " chosen people of Apollo and the Muses , " look upon every " non - reading " man as a hostile Philistine . Wenn hinten , weit , in der Türkei , Die GOETHE'S FAUST . 335.
... Philistines ; " the students , considering themselves as the " chosen people of Apollo and the Muses , " look upon every " non - reading " man as a hostile Philistine . Wenn hinten , weit , in der Türkei , Die GOETHE'S FAUST . 335.
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Alluding allusion Altmayer andern Augen Baubo beauty Blocksberg Blut Brander Cabbala cabbalistic character Chor daß despair devil dich earth einmal erst evil spirit ewig expression Faust feeling Fichte Frau Freund Frosch ganze gehen gehn geht Geist German German Mythology gern geschehn gethan gewiß gleich Goethe Goethe's Gott Gretchen groß Habt halb happiness heart Herr Herrn Herz Herzen heute Himmel iſt ist's Komm kommt Laß läßt Latin Leben Leib Licht Lieb macht Mammon manche Mann Margaret Marthe meaning Menschen Mephisto Mephistopheles muß Mutter Nacht nature Nostradamus passion philosophical poet poetical poetry recht sagen Satan satire scene schon schöne Schüler Seele sein sense Siebel sieht Sinn soll song soul steht Stimme superstition Teufel thou Valentin viel Wagner wär Weib Wein weiß Welt wenig wieder witches wohl word Zeit
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Page 27 - To die, to sleep; To sleep? perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 17 - And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
Page 248 - So God created man in his own image ; — male and female created he them.
Page 21 - Thou art the anointed Cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Page 24 - Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 234 - Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower...
Page 260 - Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From...
Page 143 - The practice of thrusting out the thumb between the first and second fingers to express the feelings of insult and contempt has prevailed very generally among the nations of Europe, and for many ages been denominated making the fig, or described at least by some equivalent expression.
Page 285 - Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Page 285 - Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf. Witches' mummy , maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i...