...bamaligen Stanbpunftes pon (Larlyle bie bebeutungscoíle Bemerfung (pgl. Corresp. with Goethe, S. 33): „It is not without reluctance that in the play before...Faust's crimes are many, but his will seems to have little share in them . . . and when we see Mephistophiles [!] at length succeed in ruining a being...

...grandest attributes of our nature, and has meant to use them well. His fault seems but the want of wordly wisdom, and the lofty, though unhappy constitution...though he acts ill; and, when we see Mephistophiles at length succeed in ruining a being so greatly his superior in all respects, it seems as if the spirit...

...Mephistophiles personify the two propensities, as implanted by nature, and modified by education—to admire and to despise, to look at the world on its...though he acts ill; and, when we see Mephistophiles at length succeed in ruining a being so greatly his superior in all respects, it seems as if the spirit...

...the conclusion of Part First, he was under the impression that Goethe permits his hero to be lost. " It is not without reluctance, that in the play before...connection with the fiend, he feels virtuously even nobly." Carlyle seems to have had an instinctive feeling that Faust as Goethe portrayed him ought to have been...

...devotee » , Mephisto est « the denye* who tempts as an intellectual recreation » . Conclut : « It is not without reluctance that, in the play before...behold the inferior principle triumphant in the end... but if such be our feeling, it is not with the poet that we must quarrel. « The soul that sinneth,...