Faust: A Tragedy

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Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884 - 463 Seiten
 

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Seite 250 - The Rosicrucians are a people I must bring you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de 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.
Seite 356 - If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. Why, then, belike we must sin, And so consequently die: Ay, we must die an everlasting death. What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera: What will be, shall be?
Seite 348 - Blest paper-credit ! last and best supply ! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly ! Gold imp'd by thee, can compass hardest things, Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings;' A single leaf shall waft an army o'er, Or ship off senates to a distant shore;* A leaf, like Sibyl's, scatter to and fro Our fates and fortunes, as the winds shall blow: Pregnant with thousands flits the scrap unseen, And silent sells a king, or buys a queen...
Seite 294 - Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide away Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous day : And such a throng I fain would see, — Stand on free soil among a people free ! Then dared I hail the Moment fleeing : " Ah, still delay — thou art so fair...
Seite 225 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty...
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 306 - 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 2 - Thomas Jefferson. By John T. Morse, Jr. Daniel Webster. By Henry Cabot Lodge. Albert Gallatin. By John Austin Stevens. James Madison. By Sydney Howard Gay. John Adams. By John T. Morse, Jr. John Marshall.
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