The works of J.W. von Goethe, Volumes 1-7Wyman-Fogg Company, 1901 |
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Page 106 - Being the first play our friend had witnessed for so long a' time, it suggested several reflections to him. It was full of action, but without any true delineation of character. It pleased and delighted. Such are always the beginnings of the scenic art. The rude man is contented if he see but something going on, the man of more refinement must be made to feel, the man entirely refined desires to reflect.
Page 302 - He is now poor in goods and favour, and a stranger in the scene which from youth he had looked upon as his inheritance. His temper here assumes its first mournful tinge. He feels that now he is not more, that he is less, than a private nobleman; he offers himself as the servant of every one...
Page 140 - She skipped so sharply and surely along between the eggs, and trod so closely down beside them, that you would have thought every instant she must trample one of them in pieces, or kick the rest away in her rapid turns. By no means! She touched no one of them, though winding herself through their mazes with all kinds of steps, wide and narrow, nay even with leaps, and at last half-kneeling.
Page 353 - This impassioned tenderness, this vivid gratitude, appeared to be the flame which consumed the oil of her life : the skill of the physician could not save that fair life, the most anxious friendship could not lengthen it. But if art could not stay the departing spirit, it has done its utmost to preserve the body, and withdraw it from decay. A balsamic substance has been forced through: all the veins, and now tinges, in place of blood, these cheeks too early faded. Come near, my friends, and view...
Page 304 - ... before your eyes, and then observe him when he learns that his father's spirit walks; stand by him in the terrors of the night, when the venerable ghost itself appears before him. A horrid shudder passes over him ; he speaks to the mysterious form ; he sees it beckon him ; he follows it, and hears.
Page 282 - Then wake so glad, to scene so kind ; In earthly robes no longer drest, This band, this girdle left behind. And those calm shining sons of morn They ask not who is maid or boy ; No robes, no garments there are worn, Our body pure from sin's alloy. Through little life not much I toil'd, Yet anguish long this heart has wrung, Untimely woe my blossom spoil'd ; Make me again forever young ! " I immediately determined upon leaving her the dress," proceeded Natalia ; ' ' and procuring her some others of...
Page 355 - Well is the treasure now laid up ; the fair image of the Past ! Here sleeps it in the marble, undecaying ; in your hearts too it lives, it works. Travel, travel, back into life ! Take along with you this holy Earnestness ; — for Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
Page 152 - ... midnight near, Laertes swore through thick and thin, that no living mortal was worthy ever more to put these glasses to his lips ; and, so swearing, he pitched his own right over his head, through a window-pane, out into the street.
Page 52 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Page 322 - In my case, then," cried Wilhelm, "your ceremony has been very premature ; for since the day when you pronounced me free, what I can, will, or shall do, has been more unknown to me than ever.