Faust: A Tragedy, Band 1

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Houghton, Mitllin Company, 1898
 

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Seite 289 - Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
Seite 247 - Thou believest that there is one God ; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Seite 221 - 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.
Seite 45 - 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.
Seite 302 - And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
Seite 295 - To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in' the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine...
Seite 246 - 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, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Seite 242 - The air is not so full of flies in summer, as it is at all times of invisible devils : this Paracelsus stiffly maintains...
Seite 255 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint : Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
Seite 307 - 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...

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