Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and GoetheHarvard university, 1910 - 215 Seiten |
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actually Alfred de Musset allegory Anaxagoras ancient angel Aristotle atoms Beatrice beauty Christian classicism conceived Dante Dante's death Democritus destiny devil Divine Comedy Doctor Faustus dreams earth Earth-Spirit earthly emotion Epicurean Epicurus everything evil existence experience express eyes fancy fear feel folly form of eternity genius Goethe Goethe's Faust Greek Gretchen happiness heart heaven Helen hell hope human ideal illusion imagination immortality infinite insight inspired interest landscape less living lover Lucretius magic mankind material Mephistopheles merely mind moral mystical nature Neoplatonic never pagan Paradiso passion pathetic fallacy perfect philo philosophy Piccarda Plato play pleasures poem poet poet's poetic poetry political possible purgatory reason religion render romantic romanticism salvation scene sense sentiment sort soul spheres Spinoza spirit sublime substance symbol theology theory things thought tion tius topheles true truth ture universe Venus virtue vision whole wisdom words Wordsworth
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Seite 171 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Seite 148 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Seite 40 - Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divumque voluptas, alma Venus, caeli subter labentia signa quae mare navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis concelebras, per te quoniam genus omne animantum concipitur visitque exortum lumina solis...
Seite 163 - Ich bin ein Teil des Teils, der anfangs alles war, Ein Teil der Finsternis, die sich das Licht gebar, Das stolze Licht, das nun der Mutter Nacht Den alten Rang, den Raum ihr streitig macht.
Seite 9 - ... sed veluti pueris absinthia taetra medentes cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circum contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore, ut puerorum aetas improvida ludificetur 940 labrorum tenus, interea perpotet amarum absinthi laticem deceptaque non capiatur, sed potius tali pacto recreata valescat...
Seite 105 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Seite 148 - O Faustus ! lay that damned book aside, And gaze not on it lest it tempt thy soul, And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head. Read, read the Scriptures : that is blasphemy.
Seite 40 - Nam simul ac species patefactast verna diei et reserata viget genitabilis aura favoni, aeriae primum volucres te, diva, tuumque significant initum perculsae corda tua vi.
Seite 73 - ... both. And I rejoiced to think that I had found in Anaxagoras a teacher of the causes of existence such as I desired, and I imagined that he would tell me first whether the earth is flat or round...
Seite 161 - Des Menschen Tätigkeit kann allzu leicht erschlaffen, Er liebt sich bald die unbedingte Ruh'; Drum geb' ich gern ihm den Gesellen zu, Der reizt und wirkt und muß als Teufel schaffen.