Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel, Volume 2Oliver & Boyd, 1824 - 294 pages |
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... means to satisfy our wants ; since , after all , we are not wholly spirit . Had we been in town , where every thing is to be got , we should have changed this little sum into a watch , a ring , or something of that sort ; but as it is ...
... means to satisfy our wants ; since , after all , we are not wholly spirit . Had we been in town , where every thing is to be got , we should have changed this little sum into a watch , a ring , or something of that sort ; but as it is ...
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... mean , nay vicious companions , and who , notwithstanding his nobleness of nature , found pleasure in the rudeness , indecency , and coarse in- temperance of these altogether sensual knaves . This ideal likeness , which he figured as ...
... mean , nay vicious companions , and who , notwithstanding his nobleness of nature , found pleasure in the rudeness , indecency , and coarse in- temperance of these altogether sensual knaves . This ideal likeness , which he figured as ...
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... means the best imaginable . The little consideration , the neglect they had experienced , were now described with many aggravations . The jesting , bantering , and mimicry proceeded as before ; our party were growing bitterer 16 WILHELM ...
... means the best imaginable . The little consideration , the neglect they had experienced , were now described with many aggravations . The jesting , bantering , and mimicry proceeded as before ; our party were growing bitterer 16 WILHELM ...
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... means does he possess of holding fast the affections he has once conquered ! To us all this occurs less fre- quently , to us it is all more difficult ; and we na- turally therefore put a greater value on whatever in the way of mutual ...
... means does he possess of holding fast the affections he has once conquered ! To us all this occurs less fre- quently , to us it is all more difficult ; and we na- turally therefore put a greater value on whatever in the way of mutual ...
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... mean , the vulgar was offensive to him ; and if hatred could take root in his tender soul , it was only so far as to make him properly despise the false and changeful insects of a court , and play with them in easy scorn . He was calm ...
... mean , the vulgar was offensive to him ; and if hatred could take root in his tender soul , it was only so far as to make him properly despise the false and changeful insects of a court , and play with them in easy scorn . He was calm ...
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Page 171 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' 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's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ?...
Page 171 - 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 72 - 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; he is not courteous and condescending, he is needy and degraded.
Page 74 - The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right! In these words, I imagine, will be found the key to Hamlet's whole procedure. To me it is clear that Shakespeare...
Page 88 - For it is the property of crime to extend its mischief over innocence, as it is of virtue to extend its blessings over many that deserve them not ; while frequently the author of the one or of the other is not punished or rewarded at all. Here in this play of ours, how strange ! The Pit of darkness sends its spirit and demands revenge ; in vain ! All circumstances tend one way, and hurry to revenge ; in vain ! Neither earthly nor infernal thing may bring about what is reserved for Fate alone. The...
Page 131 - among thousands one woman saved ; that still is something: among thousands one honest man discovered ; this is not to be refused. Do you know then what you promise ?" " I know it," answered Wilhelm with a smile, and holding out his hand. " I accept it then," said she, and made a movement with her right hand, as if meaning to take hold of his: but instantly she darted it into her pocket, pulled out her dagger quick as lightning, and scored with the edge and point of it across his hand. He hastily...
Page 199 - 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 137 - Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things.
Page 328 - Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
Page 314 - I observed that my present condition of mind had formerly been known to me ; only I had never felt it in such strength ; I had never held it fast, never made it mine. I believe, indeed, every human soul at intervals feels something of it.