The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe'sMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 327 Seiten |
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... least more sensible and immediate , than that which exists between human beings and Him . The best way of expressing this relation in human language is by the idea of physical nearness . They were God's Angels . Pursuing , each ...
... least more sensible and immediate , than that which exists between human beings and Him . The best way of expressing this relation in human language is by the idea of physical nearness . They were God's Angels . Pursuing , each ...
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... say , were they to see their old co - mate changed into such a being ? But be it so . If I cannot cope with the Almighty on the grand scale of infinitude , I shall at least make my existence felt 30 THE THREE DEVILS :
... say , were they to see their old co - mate changed into such a being ? But be it so . If I cannot cope with the Almighty on the grand scale of infinitude , I shall at least make my existence felt 30 THE THREE DEVILS :
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... least , be a noble thing to be able to say that I have caused a whirlpool that shall suck down generation after generation of these new beings , before their Maker's eyes , into the same wretched condition of being to which He has ...
... least , be a noble thing to be able to say that I have caused a whirlpool that shall suck down generation after generation of these new beings , before their Maker's eyes , into the same wretched condition of being to which He has ...
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... least , by the going out , in the progress of civilization , of those sensations which seem naturally fitted to nourish the belief in super- natural beings . The tendency of civilization has been to diminish our opportunities of feeling ...
... least , by the going out , in the progress of civilization , of those sensations which seem naturally fitted to nourish the belief in super- natural beings . The tendency of civilization has been to diminish our opportunities of feeling ...
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... least in later life , was browner and more wrinkled ; his hair more dark ; his eye also nearer the black and lustrous in species , if less myste- riously vague and deep ; and his person perhaps the taller and more symmetrically made.1 ...
... least in later life , was browner and more wrinkled ; his hair more dark ; his eye also nearer the black and lustrous in species , if less myste- riously vague and deep ; and his person perhaps the taller and more symmetrically made.1 ...
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Seite 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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Seite 230 - 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 138 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout . Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
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Seite 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...
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