The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe'sMacmillan and Company, 1874 - 327 Seiten |
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... imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And , though there can be no doubt that Goethe's Mephistopheles is conceived less in the spirit of Scrip- ture than either Milton's Satan or ...
... imagination of the poet blazing in the very track of the propositions of the theologian . And , though there can be no doubt that Goethe's Mephistopheles is conceived less in the spirit of Scrip- ture than either Milton's Satan or ...
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... imagination in realizing the Scrip- ture narrative : we have reason also to know that he did actually believe in the Devil's existence ; and it agrees with what we know of Milton's character to suppose that the Devil thus believed in ...
... imagination in realizing the Scrip- ture narrative : we have reason also to know that he did actually believe in the Devil's existence ; and it agrees with what we know of Milton's character to suppose that the Devil thus believed in ...
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... imagining new enterprises , Satan was in his very nature the most active of God's Archangels . He was ever doing some great thing , and ever thirst- ing for some greater thing to do . And , alas ! his very wisdom became his folly . His ...
... imagining new enterprises , Satan was in his very nature the most active of God's Archangels . He was ever doing some great thing , and ever thirst- ing for some greater thing to do . And , alas ! his very wisdom became his folly . His ...
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... imaginative purposes . It is in this light that one would welcome Animal Magnetism , or any thing else whatever that would but knock a hole through the paper wall that incloses our mode of being , snub the self - conceit of our present ...
... imaginative purposes . It is in this light that one would welcome Animal Magnetism , or any thing else whatever that would but knock a hole through the paper wall that incloses our mode of being , snub the self - conceit of our present ...
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... imagination , without any trouble , as specifically Mr. Shakespeare's face . In com- plexion , as we imagine it , it was rather fair than dark ; and yet not very fair either , if we are to believe Shake- speare himself ( Sonnet 62 ) ...
... imagination , without any trouble , as specifically Mr. Shakespeare's face . In com- plexion , as we imagine it , it was rather fair than dark ; and yet not very fair either , if we are to believe Shake- speare himself ( Sonnet 62 ) ...
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Seite 86 - 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.
Seite 151 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Seite 48 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Seite 232 - 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 13 - 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 28 - Space may produce new worlds; whereof so rife There went a fame in Heaven that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven.
Seite 113 - 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...
Seite 88 - 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.
Seite 27 - ... are sparkling, sensational, and dramatic, and the originality of their ideas and the quaintness of their language give them a most captivating piquancy. The illustrations are extremely interesting, and for the curious in such matters have a special and particular value.