Faust: A Tragedy, Part 1Fields, Osgood, 1871 - 536 pages |
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ALTMAYER appears art thou Auerbach's Cellar beauty Beelzebub behold bliss Blocksberg blood bosom BRANDER breast canst CHORUS dance dare dear death delight Devil Devil sticks drink Düntzer earth Eckermann English eternal evil expression FAUST feel feminine rhymes fire flame follow fool FROSCH German give glow Goethe Goethe's hand HE-APE hear heart Heaven heavenly holy Hurrah living Lord magic MARGARET MARTHA Mephis MEPHISTOPHELES mind nasty song Nature naught ne'er never night Nostradamus o'er once original Paracelsus passage Pico di Mirandola play pleasure poet poodle pray rat-catcher rhyme says scene Schiller seek seems sense SIEBEL sing song soon soul speak spirit STUDENT sure sweet thee there's thine thing thou art thou hast thought thyself tion topheles translation unto verse WAGNER Walpurgis-Night WILL-O'-THE-WISP wine WITCH word written yonder youth
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Page 332 - Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude sinks downward to a Gnome, In search of mischief still on Earth to roam. The light Coquettes in Sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of Air.
Page 333 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Page 374 - Wi' his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi' bluid red-rusted; Five scimitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter, which a babe had strangled; A knife, a father's throat had mangled, Whom his ain son o...
Page 314 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty wiih the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years has 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 talent.
Page 61 - Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces.
Page 374 - Coffins stood round, like open presses; That shaw'd the dead in their last dresses; And by some devilish...
Page 404 - Having commenc'd, be a Divine in show, Yet level at the end of every art, And live and die in Aristotle's works. Sweet Analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me.
Page 366 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in' the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Page 404 - He surfeits on the cursed necromancy. Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss, And this the man that in his study sits.
Page 405 - Such is the subject of the Institute, And universal body of the law. This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash; Too servile and illiberal for me. When all is done, divinity is best: Jerome's Bible, Faustus; view it well. (Reads.) "Stipendium peccati mors est." Ha! "Stipendium," etc. The reward of sin is death: that's hard.