Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels: From the German of Goethe ...Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... Nature our common Mother's bringing forth ; seen it , loved it , laid his heart open to it and to the Mother of it , so that he can now rationally speak it for us ? He is our brother , and a good not a bad man ; his words are like gold ...
... Nature our common Mother's bringing forth ; seen it , loved it , laid his heart open to it and to the Mother of it , so that he can now rationally speak it for us ? He is our brother , and a good not a bad man ; his words are like gold ...
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... nature , from the gay material vivacity of Philina to the severe moral grandeur of the Uncle and the splendid accomplishment of Lothario , will to most of us be of small importance : and the everlasting disqui- sitions about plays and ...
... nature , from the gay material vivacity of Philina to the severe moral grandeur of the Uncle and the splendid accomplishment of Lothario , will to most of us be of small importance : and the everlasting disqui- sitions about plays and ...
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... that beauty , which has its foundation in the deepest nature of man , and will continue to be pleasing through all ages . * Charakteristik des Meister . If this appear excessive praise , as applied in any TO THE FIRST EDITION . xi.
... that beauty , which has its foundation in the deepest nature of man , and will continue to be pleasing through all ages . * Charakteristik des Meister . If this appear excessive praise , as applied in any TO THE FIRST EDITION . xi.
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... natural that the operas , with their manifold adventures and vicissitudes , should attract me more than any thing beside . In these compositions I found stormy seas , gods descending in chariots of cloud , and , what most of all ...
... natural that the operas , with their manifold adventures and vicissitudes , should attract me more than any thing beside . In these compositions I found stormy seas , gods descending in chariots of cloud , and , what most of all ...
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... nature to the party of the Christians , I could not help declaring for the Paynim heroine with all my heart , when she engaged to set on fire the great tower of the besiegers . And when Tancred in the darkness met the supposed knight ...
... nature to the party of the Christians , I could not help declaring for the Paynim heroine with all my heart , when she engaged to set on fire the great tower of the besiegers . And when Tancred in the darkness met the supposed knight ...
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acquainted actors Actuarius altogether Amtmann appeared arms asked Aurelia Baron Baroness beautiful began burgher Castle cerned CHAPTER charming child Count Countess creature cried delight door Elmira entertain ere long eyes faithless father favor feeling felt gave German girl give Goethe Hamlet hand happy harper hastened heart Hecuba Hochdorf honor hope Jarno knew lady Laertes likewise live looked manner Mariana marriage means Meister Melina ment Mignon mind Narciss nature neckerchief never night noble nosegay observed occasion once painful passion person Philina piece play players Polonius praise present Prince rapture rehearsal replied rest scarcely scene secret seemed Serlo showed singu singular song soon soul speak spirit spleen stage stept stood theatre thee thing thou thought tion took turn vivacity Werner whole Wilhelm wished words young younker youth
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Page 383 - 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 com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 295 - There is an oak-tree planted in a costly jar, which should have borne only pleasant flowers in its bosom ; the roots expand, the jar is shivered. ' A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot bear and must not cast away.
Page 362 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion, That I have?
Page 362 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! HAM. Ay, so, God be wi' ye; [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.] Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 424 - O, ask me not to speak, I pray thee ! It must not be reveal'd but hid ; How gladly would my tongue obey thee, Did not the voice of Fate forbid ! At his appointed time revolving, The sun these shades of night dispels ; The rock, its rugged breast dissolving, Gives up to Earth its hidden wells. In Friendship's arms each heart reposes ; There soul to soul pours out its woe : My lips an oath forever closes, My sorrows God alone can know.
Page 362 - Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 76 - ... to get at the harpsichord; on that, threw her gown upon the bed, that he might find a seat; when she herself, with careless freedom, did not seek to hide from him many a natural office, which, out of respect for the presence of a second person, is usually concealed; he felt as if by all this he was coming nearer to her every moment, as if the communion betwixt them was fastening by invisible ties.
Page 261 - I found much that I could not away with. At one time the characters, at another time the manner of displaying them, seemed inconsistent ; and I almost despaired of finding any general tint, in which I might present my whole part with all its shadings and variations. In such devious paths I toiled, and wandered long in vain ; till at length a hope arose that I might reach my aim in quite a new way. " I set about investigating every trace of Hamlet's character, as it had shown itself before his father's...
Page 349 - I feel to cultivate my mental faculties and tastes, that so, in this enjoyment, henceforth indispensable, I may esteem as good the good alone, as beautiful the beautiful alone. Thou seest well that for me all this is nowhere to be met with except upon the stage; that in this element alone can I effect and cultivate myself according to my wishes. On the boards a polished man appears in his...
Page 114 - Preceded by a drum, the manager advanced on horseback; he was followed by a female dancer mounted on a corresponding hack, and holding a child before her, all bedizened with ribbons and spangles. Next came the remainder of the troop on foot; some of them carrying children on their shoulders in dangerous postures, yet smoothly and lightly ; among these the young, dark, black-haired figure again attracted Wilhelm's notice. Pickleherring ran gaily up and down the...