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... second parts we have Faust and him brought into a great variety of situations and into contact with a great variety of indi- viduals ; and in watching how Mephistopheles conducts himself in these we obtain more and more insight into his ...
... second parts we have Faust and him brought into a great variety of situations and into contact with a great variety of indi- viduals ; and in watching how Mephistopheles conducts himself in these we obtain more and more insight into his ...
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... Second Part of Faust is devilry all through , a tissue of bewilderments and devilries . And while doing all this Mephistopheles is still the same cold , self - possessed , sarcastic being . he exhibits any emotion at all , it is a kind ...
... Second Part of Faust is devilry all through , a tissue of bewilderments and devilries . And while doing all this Mephistopheles is still the same cold , self - possessed , sarcastic being . he exhibits any emotion at all , it is a kind ...
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... second hand . " This William , being inclined naturally to poetry and acting , came to London , I guess , about 18 ; and was an actor at one of the play - houses , and did act exceedingly well . ( Now B. Jonson was never a good actor ...
... second hand . " This William , being inclined naturally to poetry and acting , came to London , I guess , about 18 ; and was an actor at one of the play - houses , and did act exceedingly well . ( Now B. Jonson was never a good actor ...
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... the Melancholy . Let not the reader , full of the just idea of Shakespeare's wonderful concreteness as a poet , be staggered by the second of these phrases . The phrase is a good phrase ; etymologically , it 80 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
... the Melancholy . Let not the reader , full of the just idea of Shakespeare's wonderful concreteness as a poet , be staggered by the second of these phrases . The phrase is a good phrase ; etymologically , it 80 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE .
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... value of all that the second man could do , if he adhered to a course very similar , must suffer from the fact that he was following in the footsteps of a predecessor of such unapproachable ex- cellence ; H 2 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 99.
... value of all that the second man could do , if he adhered to a course very similar , must suffer from the fact that he was following in the footsteps of a predecessor of such unapproachable ex- cellence ; H 2 SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE . 99.
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a-year Addison Angels Archangel beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better blank verse called character Charles charming Chaucer comedies conceive conception criticism Crown 8vo Davenant death delightful Devil drama Dryden Earl Edition England English literature evil existence expression Extra fcap fact Fairy Faust feeling FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE genius Goethe Goethe's Mephistopheles going Heaven HEIR OF REDCLYFFE heroic or rhymed Hudibras human humour Illustrations imagination intellectual Ireland kind laureate laureateship literary lived London Luther MALL GAZETTE melancholy Mephistopheles Milton Milton's Satan mind mode moral nature never notion PALL MALL GAZETTE Paradise Lost peculiar period poem poet poetical poetry prose Puritan readers reign respect rhymed tragedy Satan satire Shakespeare Sonnets spirit Stella story style Swift taste things thinking thought tion Tom D'Urfey Vanessa verse volume Waller Whig Whiggism whole William Davenant words write written
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Página 84 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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Página 212 - And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity, Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high, He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Página 11 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 25 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our...
Página 111 - They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone...
Página 11 - Guesses at Truth. By Two BROTHERS. New Edition. The Cavalier and his Lady. Selections from the Works of the First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. With an Introductory Essay by EDWARD JENKINS, Author of " Ginx's Baby,
Página 89 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Página 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 86 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.