Goethe's Faust, with notes by A.M. Selss |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 30 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Seite 56 - I wish you had something else to do Than to plague me in the brightest hours of the day.
Seite 50 - MEPHISTOPHELES. And after — first and foremost duty — Of Metaphysics learn the use and beauty ! See that you most profoundly gain What does not suit the human brain ! A splendid word to serve, you'll find For what goes in — or won't go in — your mind. But first, at least this half a year, To order rigidly adhere ; Five hours a day, you understand, And when the clock strikes, be on hand ! Prepare beforehand for your part With paragraphs all got by heart, So you can better watch, and look That...