Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 pages |
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... Mephistopheles . Nor is it possible to confound the three , or , for a moment , to mistake the one for the other . They are as unlike as it is possible for three grand conceptions of the same thing to be . It cannot , therefore , but be ...
... Mephistopheles . Nor is it possible to confound the three , or , for a moment , to mistake the one for the other . They are as unlike as it is possible for three grand conceptions of the same thing to be . It cannot , therefore , but be ...
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... Mephistopheles is conceived less in the spirit of Scripture than either Milton's Satan or Luther's Devil , still , even in Mephistopheles we discern the lineaments of the same traditional being . All the three , then , have this in ...
... Mephistopheles is conceived less in the spirit of Scripture than either Milton's Satan or Luther's Devil , still , even in Mephistopheles we discern the lineaments of the same traditional being . All the three , then , have this in ...
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... Mephistopheles a character in his drama , qualifies us to speak of the theological opinions of the one or of the other , we are not entitled to say that either Milton or Goethe believed in a Devil at all , as Luther did . Or , again ...
... Mephistopheles a character in his drama , qualifies us to speak of the theological opinions of the one or of the other , we are not entitled to say that either Milton or Goethe believed in a Devil at all , as Luther did . Or , again ...
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... Mephistopheles resembles Luther's Devil more than Milton's Satan does , in this respect that Mephistopheles is the expression of a great deal of Goethe's actual observation of life and experience in human affairs . Still , neither the ...
... Mephistopheles resembles Luther's Devil more than Milton's Satan does , in this respect that Mephistopheles is the expression of a great deal of Goethe's actual observation of life and experience in human affairs . Still , neither the ...
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... Mephistopheles . From all this it appears , that Luther's conception of the Evil Being belongs to one category , Milton's and Goethe's to another . Let us consider , first , Milton's Satan , secondly , Goethe's Mephistopheles , and ...
... Mephistopheles . From all this it appears , that Luther's conception of the Evil Being belongs to one category , Milton's and Goethe's to another . Let us consider , first , Milton's Satan , secondly , Goethe's Mephistopheles , and ...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets David Masson Affichage du livre entier - 1856 |
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - 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...
Page 44 - 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...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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