Faustus, a dramatic mystery; The bride of Corinth; The first Walpurgis night, tr. with notes by J. AnsterLongman, Rees, Orme, 1835 |
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Page viii
... read the original , it is highly probable that the thought of translating it would never have occurred to me : nor can I see the slightest reason to with- --- hold what I have written from publication , because viii PREFACE .
... read the original , it is highly probable that the thought of translating it would never have occurred to me : nor can I see the slightest reason to with- --- hold what I have written from publication , because viii PREFACE .
Page xv
... never have existed , except on the condition of the fearless exercise of the author's own genius . Do I think that he wrote in defiance of rules ? Assuredly not ; but the rules which he did adopt , were not the arbitrary measures acci ...
... never have existed , except on the condition of the fearless exercise of the author's own genius . Do I think that he wrote in defiance of rules ? Assuredly not ; but the rules which he did adopt , were not the arbitrary measures acci ...
Page xxiv
... never thoroughly prospered . Really people should learn , when they are young , to make and to take a joke , and to throw away scraps as scraps . " s . " The critics supplied keys enough for every sentence which was given a hundred mean ...
... never thoroughly prospered . Really people should learn , when they are young , to make and to take a joke , and to throw away scraps as scraps . " s . " The critics supplied keys enough for every sentence which was given a hundred mean ...
Page xxvii
... never mingles in the action , yet remains in the back - ground , and , as the horrors of the scene darken , seems not unlikely at any moment to take his place among the dramatis personæ . * I dwell with the more anxiety on this subject ...
... never mingles in the action , yet remains in the back - ground , and , as the horrors of the scene darken , seems not unlikely at any moment to take his place among the dramatis personæ . * I dwell with the more anxiety on this subject ...
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... never seen . ' 99 It is clear that words might be easily selected which would better express the thought which Mephistopheles wishes Faustus to receive from this very ambiguous promise ; yet I think such a trans- lation would exclude ...
... never seen . ' 99 It is clear that words might be easily selected which would better express the thought which Mephistopheles wishes Faustus to receive from this very ambiguous promise ; yet I think such a trans- lation would exclude ...
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ALTMAYER angels Anne Bishop appear Baubo beauty Blocksberg blood breast brimborions Brocken called child colours dæmon dance death demonologies devil dost earth exorcists eyes fancy father FAUSTUS fear feel fire fire whirl FROSCH German give Goethe Goethe's hand happy hath hear heart heaven Juxta crucem Klettenberg light live look Lord Loudun MADAME DE STAËL man's MARGARET MARTHA matter meaning MEPHISTOPHeles merry mind mother mysterious nature never o'er once Paracelsus passage passion pleasure poem poet poor qu'ils quæ Quatuor voces simul racter raven round scene SCHEDIUS Scribleriad secret SIEBEL sight sing song soon soul spirit strange sweet thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought Tous ces mots transcribe translation unto voice Vox prima sola Walpurgis Night wish witchcraft witches words young
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Page 463 - Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 395 - Gabalis," which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake.
Page 358 - Affected passion, intense expression, the pomp of declamation, all may aspire after it — they cannot reach it.
Page 424 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With...
Page 425 - At noon ; and mid the calm of summer nights, When, by the margin of the trembling Lake, Beneath the gloomy hills, I homeward went In solitude, such intercourse was mine : Twas mine among the fields both day and night, And by the waters, all the summer long.
Page 462 - ... at the feel of June, Sole voice that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When even the bees lag at the summoning brass And you, warm little housekeeper, who class With those who think the candles come too soon, Loving the fire, and with your tricksome tune Nick the glad silent moments as they pass...
Page 8 - twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, The indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost, lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute ! What you can do or think you can, begin it ! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it ! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated : Begin it, and the work will be completed.
Page 29 - If feeling does not prompt, in vain you strive. If from the soul the language does not come, By its own impulse, to impel the hearts Of hearers with communicated power, In vain you strive, in vain you study earnestly...
Page 461 - But that there was in place to stir His spleen the chirring grasshopper, The merry cricket, puling fly, The piping gnat for minstrelsy : And now we must imagine first The elves present, to quench his thirst, A pure...
Page 358 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments, and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then, patriotism is eloquent; then, self-devotion is eloquent. The clear conception,...