Faust: A Tragedy, in Two PartsChapman and Hall, 1843 |
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advance alludes amongst ANAXAGORAS ancient appear ARCHBISHOP-CHANCELLOR asbest ascend ASTROLOGER bear beauteous beauty Behold BOLDATPLUNDER breath bring Cabiri CHIRON CHORUS command crowd curse Dame dare death deeds delight devil Dioscuri display divine dost doth E'en earth EMPEROR EUPHORION Eurotas eyes fair fame FAUST favour fear feel fire flames Fool give Gnosticism Goethe Goethe's grace greet GRIPHON hand hast heart Helen HERALD hither holy HOMUNCULUS honour Ibycus Imperial land LEMURS light LINE 11 lofty LYNCEUS magic Majesty Menelaus MEPHISTOPHELES methinks mighty mind Mothers mysterious NEREIDS NEREUS night noble o'er PALACE passage Peneus perchance PHORCYAS Pigmies PLUTUS PROTEUS prove Queen rendered rocks scene shade sight Sire SIRENS soul Sparta SPHINX spirit STRIPLING CHARIOTEER SWIFTATBOOTY TELCHINES THALES thee Thessaly thine things thou art thought throne topheles translated treasure word wouldst yonder youth
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Page i - ... the Sibyl stopp'd his eager pace, And told him what those empty phantoms were: Forms without bodies, and impassive air. Hence to deep Acheron they take their way, Whose troubled eddies, thick with ooze and clay, Are whirl'd aloft, and in Cocytus lost. There Charon stands, who rules the dreary coastA sordid god: down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb'd, unclean; His eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle, foul with grease, binds his obscene attire. He spreads his canvas;...
Page lii - The shining veil, and thus endearing said: "Accept, dear youth, this monument of love, Long since, in better days, by Helen wove: Safe in thy mother's care the vesture lay, To deck thy bride and grace thy nuptial day. Meantime may'st thou with happiest speed regain Thy stately palace, and thy wide domain.
Page xxxviii - ... banishment. In prison, the philosopher is said to have attempted to square the circle, or determine exactly the proportion of its diameter to the circumference. When the people of Lampsacus asked him before his death whether he wished anything to be done in commemoration of him, " Yes," said he, " let the boys be allowed to play on the anniversary of my death.
Page xxvii - What animal walks in the morning on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening on three?
Page i - Thus critics of less judgment than caprice, Curious, not knowing, not exact, but nice, Form short ideas, and offend in arts (As most in manners) by a love to parts. Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And...
Page vi - ... opportunity would soon be restored to them, of evincing the sincerity of their professions, by every testimony of devotion becoming the most dutiful subjects, and the most affectionate colonists. That your Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, and that your descendants may govern your dominions with honor to themselves and happiness to their subjects, is our sincere and fervent prayer. JOHN HANCOCK colony of New hampshire colony of New York John Langdon Phil. Livingston colony of Massachusetts...
Page xxxvii - ... according to his pleasure. Thus he assigned an adequate cause for the existence of the visible world. Several doctrines are ascribed to Anaxagoras, which might seem to indicate no inconsiderable knowledge of nature: such as, that the wind is produced by the rarefaction of the air ; that the rainbow is the effect of the reflection of the solar rays from a thick cloud, placed opposite to it like a mirror ; that the moon is an opaque body, enlightened by the sun, and an habitable region, divided...
Page viii - Preface : yet, as a few general observations elucidatory of the marvellous Work may be expected, and be desirable from one who has devoted six years to the study of Faust, I hesitate not, to...
Page xix - Then doth Fairies' giant spirit Speed to help, where help it can. Is he wicked ? — hath he merit ? — IT bemoans the luckless man.
Page xlvii - Sent the winged son of Maia down, Who, as I crop the blooming rose And in my folding robe inclose, The grateful sweets to bear To Pallas in her brazen shrine, Me thought the yielding air convey'd.