Goethe's Faust, 第 1 巻

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G. Routledge and Sons, 1889

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8 ページ - Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do...
287 ページ - All we see before us passing Sign and symbol is alone ; Here, what thought can never reach to Is by semblances made known ; What man's words may never alter, Done in act — in symbol shown.
4 ページ - Opium-Eater, &»c. 36. Stories of Ireland. By Miss EDGEWORTH. 37. Frere's Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds. 38. Burke 's Speeches and Letters. 39. Thomas a Kempis. 40. Popular Songs of Ireland. 41. Potter's ALschylus.
19 ページ - There spoke the veriest bigot of book-learning. What you discern not, sir, there's no discerning : All that you touch not stands at hopeless distance. All that you grasp not, can have no existence ; All that eludes your weights, is base and light ; That which you count not, is not counted right ; All measurement is false, but where you mete All coin without your stamp is counterfeit.
69 ページ - Meph, A burning Tripod tells thee thou hast found The deepest — art below the deepest ground ; And by its light the Mothers thou wilt see — Some sit, and others stand, or, it may be, In movement are. Formation, Transformation, Eternal Play of the Eternal Mind, With Semblances of all things in creation, For ever and for ever sweeping round.
20 ページ - Think of the old days, when invading bands Came like a deluge, swamping men and lands ; How natural it was that many should Hide their best valuables where they could. 'Twas so in times of the old Roman sway : So yesterday — and so it is to-day ; — And all lies dead and buried in the soil. The soil is Caesar's — his the splendid spoil.
255 ページ - Is but change of enjoyment. I gaze on the distant, I look on the near, On the moon and the bright stars, The wood and the deer. All that I look on Is lovely to see ; I am happy, and all things Seem happy to me. Glad eyes look around ye...
178 ページ - Eastward was my glance directed, Watching for the sun's first rays ; In the south — oh, sight of wonder ! Rose the bright orb's sudden blaze. Thither was my eye attracted ; Vanished bay and mountain height, Earth and heaven unseen and all things, All but that enchanted light.
11 ページ - Walpurgis night — the soliloquy of Helena, her description of the phantom, the song in which the chorus depicts the destruction of Troy, etc. As a specimen of the lyric portion, however, take the sunrise song of Ariel : " Hearken ! hark ! the storm of sunrise — Sounding but to spirits' ears — As the hours fling wide the portals Of the East, and day appears.

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