Goethe's Faust: Faust, [part one

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Seite 159 - And feel'st not, thronging To head and heart, the force, Still weaving its eternal secret, Invisible, visible, round thy life? Vast as it is, fill with that force thy heart, And when thou in the feeling wholly blessed art, Call it, then, what thou wilt,— Call it Bliss! Heart! Love! God! I have no name to give it! Feeling is all in all: The Name is sound and smoke, Obscuring Heaven's clear glow.
Seite 78 - When to the moment fleeting past me, Tarry ! I cry, so fair thou art ! Then into fetters mayst thou cast me, Then let come doom, with all my heart ! Then toll the death-bell, do not linger, Then be thy bondage o'er and done, Let the clock stop, let fall the finger, Let Time for me be past and gone ! MEPHISTOPHELES.
Seite 217 - Paris as manuscripts ; because as such they yielded a better price. But the learned doctors not being able to understand how the work was performed, concluded as above it was all the Devil, and that the man was a witch ; accordingly they took him up for a magician and a conjurer, and one that worked by the black art. that is to say, by the help of the Devil...
Seite 23 - Heaven (part i. page 10) the Lord says: And canst thou grasp him, lead him even Down with thee on the downward way, And stand abashed, when thou must needs confess That a good man, by his dim impulse driven, Of the right way hath ever consciousness. Mephistopheles has not drawn down Faust with him. Faust, in spite of serious lapses, has gone his own way and dragged Mephistopheles after him, and in the long run has even shaken himself free from him, except as a mere human servitor. The passage last...
Seite 218 - Faustus to a frightful height, till at last he was obliged, for fear of the gallows, to discover the whole secret to them. NB This is the true original of the famous Dr. Faustus, or Foster, of whom we have believed such strange things, as that it is become a proverb, 'as great as the Devil and Dr. Foster :' whereas poor Faustus was no doctor, and knew no more of the Devil than another body.
Seite 25 - In a high-vaulted, narrow Gothic chamber, FAUST, restless, on his seat, at the desk. I HAVE studied, alas ! Philosophy, And Jurisprudence, and Medicine too, And saddest of all, Theology, With ardent labour, through and through ! And here I stick, as wise, poor fool, As when my steps first turned to school.
Seite 19 - MEPHISTOPHELES. three Archangels come forward. RAPHAEL. THE sun, with many a sister-sphere, Still sings the rival psalm of wonder, And still his fore-ordained career Accomplishes, with tread of thunder. The sight sustains the angels' prime, Though none may spell the mystic story ; Thy Works, unspeakably sublime, Live on, in all their primal glory.
Seite 31 - Birth and the grave, 0 limitless ocean, A constant weaving With change still rife, A restless heaving, A glowing life — Thus time's whirring loom unceasing I ply, And weave the life-garment of deity. FAUST Thou, restless spirit, dost from end to end...
Seite 23 - Soon doth he pine for all-untrammeled sloth. Wherefore a mate I give him, nothing loth, Who spurs and shapes and must create though Devil.
Seite 60 - Tis written : In the beginning was the Word. Already I stick, and who shall help afford ? The word at such high rate I may not tender ; The passage must I elsewise render. If rightly by the Spirit I am taught, Tis written : In the beginning was the Thought. By the first line a moment tarry, Let not thine eager pen itself o'er hurry ! Does thought work all and fashion all outright ? It should stand : In the beginning was the Might. Yet even as my pen the sentence traces, A warning hint the half-writ...

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