Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and GoetheHarvard university, 1910 - 215 pages |
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actually Alfred de Musset Anaxagoras angel anthropocen Aristotle atoms Beatrice beauty Christian conceived Dante Dante's death Democritus destiny devil Divine Comedy Doctor Faustus donna gentile dreams earth Earth-Spirit emotion Epicurean Epicurus everything evil existence experience express fancy FAUST IV fear feel folly form of eternity genius Goethe Goethe's Faust Greek Gretchen happiness heart heaven Helen hell hope human ideal illusion images imagination immortality Inferno infinite insight inspired interest landscape less lived lover Lucretius magic mankind material Mephistopheles merely mind moral mystical nature ness never pagan Paradiso passion perfect perhaps philo philosophy Piccarda Plato play pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry possible punishment purgatory reason religion render romantic romanticism salvation scene seems sense sentiment sophy sort soul sphere Spinoza spirit sublime substance subtle music symbol theology theory things thought tion true truth ture universe Venus virtues vision whole words Wordsworth
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Page 114 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Page 137 - 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.
Page 129 - 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.
Page 112 - Che, come fa, non vuol che a noi si sveli. Matto è chi spera che nostra ragione Possa trascorrer la infinita via, Che tiene una sustanzia in tre persone. State contenti, umana gente, al quia; Chè se potuto aveste veder tutto, Mestier non era partorir Maria ; E disiar vedeste senza frutto Tai, che sarebbe lor disio quetato, Ch' eternalmente è dato lor per lutto.
Page 40 - Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque 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...
Page 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.
Page 114 - 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.
Page 10 - Nunc age quod superest cognosce et clarius audi. nee me animi fallit quam sint obscura; sed acri percussit thyrso laudis spes magna meum cor et simul incussit suavem mi in pectus amorem musarum...
Page 9 - ... sed veluti pueris absinthia taetra medentes cum dare conantur, prius oras pocula circum contingunt mellis dulci flavoque liquore...
Page 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...