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Possibly she will observe that in the opera Marguerite has not a fair chance. Faust has such beautiful silk tights, one leg striped and the other leg covered with spangles; and, besides, he has a devil to bring a box of jewels to tempt Marguerite.
Goethe witnessed it from a balcony in the Corso, and his carnival in the second part of "Faust" was worked up from notes taken on that occasion; but it is so highly poetized that little can be determined from it, except as a portion of the drama.
He had not written his novels of American life, once so welcomed, and now so forgotten; it was very long before he had achieved that incomparable translation of Faust which must always remain the finest and best, and which would keep his name alive with Goethe's, if he had done nothing else worthy of remembrance.
One from Shakespeare's Tempest: 'We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep; the other, the exclamation of the Earth-spirit, in Goethe's Faust: ''Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest Him by. But this is but one side of Carlyle.
The subsequent alteration of the situation, by which he makes her the half-sister of his hero, is owing, as Mr. But there is a suitable difference between the working of the womanly element in "Faust" and in Hawthorne's romance.
There is often the same incongruity between fact, idea, and emotion as there might be in an opera house, if all the wardrobes were dumped in a heap and all the scores mixed up, so that Madame Butterfly in a Valkyr's dress waited lyrically for the return of Faust. "At Christmas-tide" says an editorial, "old memories soften the heart.
Let him have a hand in the convincing of himself. I have been surprised sometimes to see my own arguments come up fresh and green, when I thought the fowls of the air had devoured them up. When a man reasons for victory and not for the truth in the other soul, he is sure of just one ally, the same that Faust had in fighting Gretchen's brother that is, the Devil.
"The poodle," said Rowland, "is certainly alive." "Nay, he too may be a grotesque phantom, like the black dog in Faust." "I hope at least that the young lady has nothing in common with Mephistopheles. She looked dangerous." "If beauty is immoral, as people think at Northampton," said Roderick, "she is the incarnation of evil.
Then her famous brother sent his blessing on her becoming "a member of the craft," and hoped she would taste only the sweets and none of the bitternesses of authorship. Her greatest work is a piano trio, which was not published until after her death. Among other compositions, she wrote several choruses for Goethe's "Faust," and a number of part-songs. Her life came to an untimely close.
It's a million to one against Lauzanne's starting if Lucretia keeps well." Faust gave a little start and searched Dixon's face, furtively. The Trainer's stolid look reassured him, and in a most sudden burst of generosity he said: "Well, I'll stretch a point for you, Dixon. Your boss is up ag'in' a frost good and hard.
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