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... whilst I have , as far as possible , avoided any circuitous paraphrase , I have in no case availed myself of the inglorious expedient of rendering a passage literally but unintelligibly , and then sheltering myself behind the dictionary ...
... whilst I have , as far as possible , avoided any circuitous paraphrase , I have in no case availed myself of the inglorious expedient of rendering a passage literally but unintelligibly , and then sheltering myself behind the dictionary ...
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... whilst you these compliments have been ex- changing , You might have been busy with something of use . What signifies talk of the right mood * so long ? She appears not to him who inactive will stand ; Only give yourselves out for the ...
... whilst you these compliments have been ex- changing , You might have been busy with something of use . What signifies talk of the right mood * so long ? She appears not to him who inactive will stand ; Only give yourselves out for the ...
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... Whilst to the eye of shipwrecked mariner All seems unlinked contingency and chance ; No atom of this turbulence fulfills A vague and unnecessitated task , Or acts but as it must and ought to act . " SHELLEY . " What , but God ...
... Whilst to the eye of shipwrecked mariner All seems unlinked contingency and chance ; No atom of this turbulence fulfills A vague and unnecessitated task , Or acts but as it must and ought to act . " SHELLEY . " What , but God ...
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... Whilst none to fathom Thee have power , MICHAEL . And storms are boisterous in their rivalry from sea to land , from land to sea , and raging form round about everything a chain of the deepest working . There a flashing desolation ...
... Whilst none to fathom Thee have power , MICHAEL . And storms are boisterous in their rivalry from sea to land , from land to sea , and raging form round about everything a chain of the deepest working . There a flashing desolation ...
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... whilst yet he draws the breath of life , To tempt him as thou listest ; ' tis the lot Of man to err whilst lasts his earthly strife . MEPHISTOPHELES . I thank thee kindly , for the dead are not Much to my taste , I like far more Life's ...
... whilst yet he draws the breath of life , To tempt him as thou listest ; ' tis the lot Of man to err whilst lasts his earthly strife . MEPHISTOPHELES . I thank thee kindly , for the dead are not Much to my taste , I like far more Life's ...
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16th century Accursed already ALTMAJER angels animal art thou aught bear behold Belial Blocksberg bosom BRANDER breast bring canst child CHORUS dance dare dear deep delight devil divine door dost thou doth earth eternal evil eyes fair FAUST feel fire flame FROSCH gaze Germany give gladly glorious glow Goethe harmony hast thou hath hear heaven heisa holy honour Incubus Juch lady libertine light look Lord mankind MARGARET MARTHA MEPHISTOPHELES mind mother Natural Theology nature ne'er never night nought o'er once Open bolt Paradise Lost pleasure poodle poor pray round Salamander seems seizes sense shew SIEBEL sing soar song soul Spinoza spirit stars sweet thee thine things thou art thought thyself to-day topheles truth unto WAGNER WALPURGIS NIGHT whilst whole wine WITCH word young دو
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Page 16 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung. And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Page 25 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage: and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 69 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave, Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
Page 17 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow, And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 35 - AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away : and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Page 15 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 18 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead ! Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony. This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes...
Page 7 - We owe the great writers of the golden age of our literature to that fervid awakening of the public mind which shook to dust the oldest and most oppressive form of the Christian religion.
Page 128 - Mid countless brethren with a lonely heart Through courts and cities the smooth savage roams Feeling himself, his own low self the whole ; When he by sacred sympathy might make The whole one self! self, that no alien knows! Self, far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self, spreading still ! Oblivious of its own, Yet all of all possessing...
Page 133 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason ; and to servitude reduce Man, till then free.