Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Volume 2Scribner, Welford and Company, 1824 |
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Page 20 - 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...
Page 20 - 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? and all for nothing!
Page 110 - 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. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect : he deserves not the name of architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his spirit. All things without us, nay I may add, all things on us, are mere elements : but deep...
Page 205 - 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 156 - The sun went down : Theresa gazed with unaverted looks upon the splendour ; and both her fine eyes filled with tears. Theresa spoke not : she laid her hand upon her new friend's hands : he kissed it with emotion ; she dried her tears, and rose. "Let us return, and see that all is right," said she. The conversation was not lively by the way. They entered the garden-door, and noticed Lydia sitting on a bench : she rose, withdrew before them, and walked in. She had a paper in her hand ; two little girls...
Page 258 - 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 110 - Do not think," replied my uncle, " that I flatter you, when I commend your mode of thinking and acting. I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what it is he wishes ; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them. How far his object may be great or little, may merit praise or censure, is the next consideration with me. Believe me, love, most part of all the misery and mischief, of all that is denominated evil, in the world, arises...
Page 36 - 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 100 - Eternal descended as an inhabitant to the depths in which we dwell, which he surveys and comprehends ; that he passed through our lot from stage to stage, from conception and birth to the grave ; that by this marvellous circuit he again mounted to those shining Heights, whither we too must rise in order to be happy ; all this was revealed to me, as in a dawning remoteness. Oh ! why must we, in speaking of such things, make use of figures, which can only indicate external situations ! Where is there...
Page 142 - for having lodged you in a chamber which the smell of paint still renders disagreeable : my little dwelling is but just made ready : you are handselling this room, which is appointed for my guests.