Faust: A TragedyJ. Ollivier, 1847 - 8 pages |
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... souls for whom I tuned my early lay , * The friendly throng is scattered far and near , The old responsive echo died away . To crowds unknown I voice my sorrow drear , Even their applause upon my heart doth weigh , And those that in my ...
... souls for whom I tuned my early lay , * The friendly throng is scattered far and near , The old responsive echo died away . To crowds unknown I voice my sorrow drear , Even their applause upon my heart doth weigh , And those that in my ...
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... soul in its might . + - therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness , because it does raise and erect the mind , by sub- mitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason does buckle and ...
... soul in its might . + - therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness , because it does raise and erect the mind , by sub- mitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason does buckle and ...
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... soul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of Prophet and of Poet was the same ; Hence British poets , too , the priesthood shared , And every hallowed Druid was a bard . " Cowper . " Poets are the ...
... soul into the dawning plan . Hence , in a Roman mouth , the graceful name Of Prophet and of Poet was the same ; Hence British poets , too , the priesthood shared , And every hallowed Druid was a bard . " Cowper . " Poets are the ...
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... soul in its ecstacy trembling , Will find what will nourish its mournful feeling . First this one is moved , then another affected , Each sees what he bears in his heart unsuspected : To laugh or to weep alike ready are they , They ...
... soul in its ecstacy trembling , Will find what will nourish its mournful feeling . First this one is moved , then another affected , Each sees what he bears in his heart unsuspected : To laugh or to weep alike ready are they , They ...
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... soul The familiar strings of the harp to awake , And gracefully on to your self - chosen goal Your way on through attractive meanderings to make : Such , old friend , is the duty you have 12 INTRODUCTION IN THE THEATRE .
... soul The familiar strings of the harp to awake , And gracefully on to your self - chosen goal Your way on through attractive meanderings to make : Such , old friend , is the duty you have 12 INTRODUCTION IN THE THEATRE .
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16th century Accursed already ALTMAJER angel 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 heart heaven heisa holy honour Incubus Juch lady 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 pray round Salamander seems seizes SEMICHORUS 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
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Page 14 - 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 6 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...
Page 23 - 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 23 - Belial came last, than whom a Spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself...
Page 13 - 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 67 - 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 16 - 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 5 - 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 33 - 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 126 - 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...