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A. H. Clough according action activity æsthetic Alving Anaxarchus antisopher artist ascetic ideal asceticism attain beauty become Borkman Brand Buddha called Christ complete conception creative Dead Awaken death delight desire disinterested divine earthly egoist endeavour Epimetheus eternal everything evil existence expression eyes father Faust fear feeling finite freedom Friedrich Nietzsche genius Ghosts Goethe Hamlet hand happiness heart heaven Hence Hesiod highest hope and fear human Ibsen idea imperfect impulse individual infinite inner instinct interest Jesus John Gabriel Borkman King Claudius Laertes live Lombroso Manfred manner means mental Mephistopheles mind moral Napoleon nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's Nirvâna noble object one's outward perfect philosophical Plutarch possess realise reality recognise revenge Rubek says Schopenhauer seeks self-seeking selfish sensation sense soul Spinoza spirit Stirner striving superman thee things thou thought true truth Türck's unity unto whole woman words Zeus
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Page 95 - ... I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 184 - Get thee to a nunnery ; Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in : What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven ! We are arrant knaves, all ; believe none of us : Go thy ways to a nunnery.
Page 129 - While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. 47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Page 112 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Page 119 - Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba That he should weep for her? What would he do Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 88 - Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. See, what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself ; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command...
Page 119 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Page 102 - tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, what is't to leave betimes ?
Page 258 - And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men?
Page 116 - Still am I call'd. — Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!