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Page 255
... Faust , a drama by Goethe . " You have not read this , " said she ; " I recollect you threw it down with the epithet of Coleridgian ravings when it was first sent home ; but I have since carefully , word and line , pored it all through ...
... Faust , a drama by Goethe . " You have not read this , " said she ; " I recollect you threw it down with the epithet of Coleridgian ravings when it was first sent home ; but I have since carefully , word and line , pored it all through ...
Page 256
... Faust of Goethe , compared with either , is a failure . The interest depends not on the hero , but on the despair of a poor girl whom he had seduced , and he is carried away by the devil , without exciting one sentiment of horror for ...
... Faust of Goethe , compared with either , is a failure . The interest depends not on the hero , but on the despair of a poor girl whom he had seduced , and he is carried away by the devil , without exciting one sentiment of horror for ...
Page 257
... Faust . " The general character of the play may be de- scribed , as formed on the plan of the old moralities and mysteries . It opens with this song in heaven , by the three archangels , Raphael , Gabriel , and Michael . " RAPHAEL ...
... Faust . " The general character of the play may be de- scribed , as formed on the plan of the old moralities and mysteries . It opens with this song in heaven , by the three archangels , Raphael , Gabriel , and Michael . " RAPHAEL ...
Page 258
... Faust ; thus the author hideously makes the Almighty consenting to the destruction of Faust for the gratification of the Devil . much finer , and more elevated , and more poetical too , is the Hebrew idea , of making Job withstand the ...
... Faust ; thus the author hideously makes the Almighty consenting to the destruction of Faust for the gratification of the Devil . much finer , and more elevated , and more poetical too , is the Hebrew idea , of making Job withstand the ...
Page 259
... Faust in his study : he has exhausted science and art ; his curiosity is still hungry , and he is dab- bling in magic . All this is very prettily conceived , but it is feebly expressed . A spirit in the end ap- pears , for no purpose ...
... Faust in his study : he has exhausted science and art ; his curiosity is still hungry , and he is dab- bling in magic . All this is very prettily conceived , but it is feebly expressed . A spirit in the end ap- pears , for no purpose ...
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