Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and TravelsAmerican Book Exchange, 1881 - 596 pages |
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Page 226 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN Ham. Ay, so, God bye to you. 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 That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
Page 212 - For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason...
Page 240 - 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 535 - As all Nature's thousand changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdoms ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress And serene through time and season Stands for aye in loveliness.
Page 226 - 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 419 - 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 216 - What good were it for me to manufacture perfect iron while my own breast is full of dross? What would it stead me to put properties of land in order, while I am at variance with myself ? "To speak it in a word, the cultivation of my individual self, here as I am, has from my youth upwards been constantly though dimly my wish and my purpose.
Page 376 - Such let me seem till such I be ; Take not my snow-white dress away ! Soon from this dusk of earth I flee Up to the glittering lands of day. There first a little space I rest, Then wake so glad, to scene so kind; In earthly robes no longer drest, This band, this girdle left behind.
Page 495 - God of Nations, it is not asked whether this is the best, the most excellent nation; but whether it lasts, whether it has continued. The Israelitish people never was good for much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers...
Page 562 - ... giant. In short, my wife, my ring, my dwarf figure, and so many other bonds and restrictions, made me utterly unhappy ; so that I began to think seriously about obtaining my deliverance. " Being persuaded that the whole magic lay in the ring, I resolved on filing this asunder. From the court-jeweller, accordingly, I borrowed some files. By good luck, I was left-handed, as indeed, throughout my whole life, I had never done aught in the right-handed way. I stood tightly to the work : it was not...