Wilhelm Meister: ApprenticeshipJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 |
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acquainted actors Actuarius altogether Amtmann appeared asked Aurelia baron baroness beautiful began burgher castle CHAPTER charming child count countess creature cried delight door Elmira entertain ere long eyes father favour feeling felt gave German give Goethe Hamlet hand happy Harper hastened heart Herrnhut Hochdorf honour hope humour Iphigenie auf Tauris Jarno knew labour lady Laertes likewise live look louis-d'or manner Mariana means Meister Melina Mignon mind Narciss nature neckerchief never night noble nosegay observed occasion once passion person Philina piece play players pleasant pleasure Polonius praise present prince rehearsal replied rest scarcely scene secret seemed Serlo showed singular song soon soul speak spirit spleen Stallmeister stept stood stranger theatre thee things thou thought took turn vivacity Werner whole Wilhelm wished words young younker youth
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الصفحة 269 - 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!
الصفحة 339 - They wish to know and learn a multitude of things, and precisely those they have the least concern with ; and they never see that hunger is not stilled by snapping at the air. When I become acquainted with a man, my first inquiry is, With what does he employ himself, and how, and with what degree of perseverance? The answer regulates the interest I shall take in him for life.
الصفحة 68 - ... with rapture if among the dingles we are crossing the voice of the nightingale starts out touching and strong. They found a home in every habitation of the world, and the lowliness of their condition but exalted them the more. The hero listened to their songs ; and the conqueror of the earth did reverence to a poet, for he felt that without poets, his own wild and vast existence would pass away like a whirlwind, and be forgotten forever.
الصفحة 242 - I know not how it is in foreign countries ; but in Germany a universal, and, if I may say so, personal cultivation is beyond the reach of any one except a nobleman. A burgher may acquire merit ; by excessive efforts he may even educate his mind ; but his personal qualities are lost, or worse than lost, let him struggle as he will.
الصفحة 315 - Narciss would be offended; for he dreaded exceedingly the ridicule which any look of straitlaced conscientiousness gives one in the eyes of the world. And doing what I now looked upon as folly, noxious folly, out of no taste of my own, but merely to gratify him, it all grew wofully irksome to me. Without disagreeable prolixities and repetitions, it is not in my power to represent what pains I took in trying so to counteract those occupations which distracted my attention and disturbed my peace of...
الصفحة 66 - ... enterprises. Look at boys, how, whenever any rope-dancers have been visiting the town, they go scrambling up and down, and balancing on all the planks and beams within their reach, till some other charm calls them off to other sports, for which perhaps they are as little suited. Hast thou never marked it in the circle of our friends ? No sooner does a dilettante introduce himself to notice, than numbers of them set themselves to learn playing on his instrument. How many wander back and forward...
الصفحة 209 - One more forsaken woman in the world !' you will say. You are a man; you are thinking: ' What a noise she makes, the fool, about a necessary evil; which, certainly as death, awaits a woman, when such is the fidelity of men...
الصفحة 269 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me! Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death, Have burst their cerements?
الصفحة 117 - Nothing is more touching than the first disclosure of a love which has been nursed in silence, of a faith grown strong in secret, and which at last comes forth in the hour of need, and reveals itself to him who formerly has reckoned it of small account. The bud, which had been closed so long and firmly, was now ripe to burst its swathings ; and Wilhelm's heart could never have been readier to welcome the impressions of affection. She stood before him, and noticed his disquietude.