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  • As soon as Faust dies, he exclaims: A foolish word, bygone.†   (source)
  • Even though his life was over, Faust saw some meaning in the traces he would leave behind him.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Faust," he said, "what do you imagine the morning headlines will read?†   (source)
  • Fitzsimmons expected that, at best, Seabiscuit would be able to cling to Faust for a little while.†   (source)
  • A few days later, Sadie had a long phone conversation with Gran and Grandpa Faust in London.†   (source)
  • "Mr. and Mrs. Faust," Inspector Williams said, "I'm afraid we have two uncooperative children."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Faust, Carter and Sadie have only one safe option.†   (source)
  • Faust became a scientist thanks to the mistakes of his predecessors and contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Faust was an artist thanks to the inspiring example of his teachers.†   (source)
  • This pattern holds from the Elizabethan Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus through the nineteenth-century Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust to the twentieth century's Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and Damn Yankees.†   (source)
  • First, he sees the girl's books: The Grave Digger's Handbook, Faust the Dog, The Lighthouse, and now The Shoulder Shrug.†   (source)
  • Faust the Dog also had pictures—lovely curves and ears and caricatures of a German Shepherd with an obscene drooling problem and the ability to talk.†   (source)
  • The chief difference between Hansberry's version of the Faustian bargain and others is that Walter Lee ultimately resists the satanic temptation.†   (source)
  • As Faust dies and looks back on his life's work, he says in triumph: Then to the moment could I say: Linger you now, you are so fair!†   (source)
  • I want my students notonly to agree with me that, indeed, Mr. Lindner is an instance of the demonic tempter offering Walter Lee Younger a Faustian bargain; I want them to be able to reach that conclusion without me.†   (source)
  • Slapped over and over again with the stick, Seabiscuit blew Faust's doors off, covering a quarter mile in an impossible 22% seconds.†   (source)
  • One morning, when working all the yearlings over two furlongs—a quarter of a mile—in sets of two, he paired Seabiscuit with Faust, the fastest yearling in the barn and a future major stakes winner.†   (source)
  • Faust never had a chance.†   (source)
  • "Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Faust," Amos said.†   (source)
  • I tried to imagine Grandma and Grandpa Faust doing magic, but unless watching rugby on TV and burning cookies was magical, I couldn't see it.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Faust, you know what's begun.†   (source)
  • Every man is born a Faust, with a longing to grasp and experience and express everything in the world.†   (source)
  • ' " They played potsy, humming "The Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust which they called "Glory.†   (source)
  • He believes, like Faust, that two souls are far too many for a single breast and must tear the breast asunder.†   (source)
  • Ever read Faust?†   (source)
  • This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.†   (source)
  • Goethe presents the masculine guide in Faust as Mephistopheles—and not infrequently the dangerous aspect of the "mercurial" figure is stressed; for he is the lurer of the innocent soul into realms of trial.†   (source)
  • If "Faust" is treated in this way, Faust, Mephistopheles, Wagner and the rest form a unity and a supreme individuality; and it is in this higher unity alone, not in the several characters, that something of the true nature of the soul is revealed.†   (source)
  • When Faust, in a line immortalized among schoolmasters and greeted with a shudder of astonishment by the Philistine, says: "Two souls, alas, do dwell within my breast!" he has forgotten Mephisto and a whole crowd of other souls that he has in his breast likewise.†   (source)
  • Her soul cried out in the words of Faust, "Stay, thou art fair!"†   (source)
  • It was an intermezzo, a vocal solo, a "prayer" from Gounod's opera about Faust.†   (source)
  • She sang Margarita in FAUST and triumphed!†   (source)
  • They were giving FAUST, as it happened, before a splendid house.†   (source)
  • This was done about half an hour before the curtain rose on the first act of Faust.†   (source)
  • It will be FAUST on Saturday: let us both see the performance from Box Five on the grand tier!†   (source)
  • If you refuse, you will give FAUST to-night in a house with a curse upon it.†   (source)
  • Chapter VII — Faust and What Followed.†   (source)
  • Mephistopheles declared to Faust that he desired evil, but did only good.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    No test or trial you evaded:
    A Helping God the helper aided.†   (source)
  • [Exit
    MEPHISTOPHELES FAUST
    MEPHISTOPHELES
    Come in, but gently: follow me!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    How raves the tempest through the air!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Try, then, the open window-pane!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    My darling, who shall dare
    "I believe in God!" to say?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    May I not, then, upon you wait?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Mephisto, seest thou there,
    Alone and far, a girl most pale and fair?†   (source)
  • FAUST (awaking)
    Am I again so foully cheated?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    To leave them is my inclination.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    With all you gentlemen, the name's a test,
    Whereby the nature usually is expressed.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    Come!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Fix and arrange it to my will;
    And on her neighbor try thy skill!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    The woe, the rapture, so ensnare me,
    That from her gaze I cannot tear me!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Meanwhile, may not the treasure risen be,
    Which there, behind, I glimmering see?†   (source)
  • FAUST (dancing)
    O, everywhere on him you fall!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    But thou hast heard, 'tis not of joy we're talking.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    How strangely glimmers through the hollows
    A dreary light, like that of dawn!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thy cries will wake the guards, and they will seize thee!†   (source)
  • FAUST (after a moment's silence)
    Leave me alone, I beg of thee!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    One service pays the other thus.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    The circle narrows: he is near!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thou hast a perfect right thereto.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    What nonsense she declaims before us!†   (source)
  • FAUST (with averted head)
    Terrible to see!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Soaring up, sweeping down, bowing and bending!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thou art, and thou remain'st, a sophist, liar.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Inspect him close: for what tak'st thou the beast?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    There, now, is thine antipathy!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Hear me not falsely, sweetest countenance!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Get thee away with thine offences,
    Reprobate!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thee, form of flame, shall I then fear?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    If 'twould, my love, would I advise it?†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    Sir Doctor, don't retreat, I pray!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    The darling's sorrow gives me pain.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    XI
    A STREET
    FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
    FAUST
    How is it?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    O yes, up to the stars at last!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    If you've naught better, then, I'll tear your pretty plan!†   (source)
  • FAUST, in a chair at his
    desk, restless    .†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    My friend, take proper heed, I pray!†   (source)
  • Another bite makes free the door:
    So, dream thy dreams, O Faust, until we meet once more!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Let me not lose myself in all this pother!†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    Come, walk at once!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    A look from thee, a word, more entertains
    Than all the lore of wisest brains.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Wilt thou, to introduce us to the revel,
    Assume the part of wizard or of devil?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Seek thou the honest recompense!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thy head is out of order, sadly:
    It much becomes thee to be raving madly.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    It seems to me that with enchanted cunning
    He snares our feet, some future chain to bind.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    How shall we leave the house, and start?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    To see him now I have no heart.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    [Illustration]
    XII
    GARDEN
    (MARGARET on FAUST'S arm.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    [Illustration]
    IX
    PROMENADE
    (FAUST, walking thoughtfully up and down.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    She talks like one who raves in fever.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    [Illustration]
    III
    THE STUDY
    FAUST
    (Entering, with the poodle.)†   (source)
  • FAUST
    O fortunate, for whom, when victory glances,
    The bloody laurels on the brow he bindeth!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    So long as in my legs I feel the fresh existence.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Yet with the flowing beard I wear,
    Both ease and grace will fail me there.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Well,—Chance, this time, has fairly hit it!†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES
    (In FAUST'S long mantle.)†   (source)
  • FAUST
    I have not snares around thee cast;
    Thyself hast led thyself into the meshes.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    To Him above bow down, my friends,
    Who teaches help, and succor sends!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thereto I willingly agree,
    If the diversion pleasant be.†   (source)
  • (MEPHISTOPHELES knocks)
    FAUST (stamping his foot)
    Who's there?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Foreboding angel that thou art!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Abortion, thou, of filth and fire!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    O happy he, who still renews
    The hope, from Error's deeps to rise forever!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Would there were other work for thee!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    I take the cup you kindly reach,
    With thanks and health to all and each.†   (source)
  • FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
    MEPHISTOPHELES
    DOST thou not wish a broomstick-steed's assistance?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Canst thou, poor Devil, give me whatsoever?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    This life of earth, whatever my attire,
    Would pain me in its wonted fashion.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    And what shall be my counter-service therefor?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    What weave they there round the raven-stone?†   (source)
  • He disappears with FAUST: the revellers start and separate.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    One rapid glance within the mirror give me,
    How beautiful that woman-form!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Yes, of the kind which men attain!†   (source)
  • She then beckons FAUST to approach.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Fear not that I this pact shall seek to sever?†   (source)
  • (MEPHISTOPHELES enters)
    FAUST
    Hear, of that girl I'd have possession!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    No doubt you're right: no trace of mind, I own,
    Is in the beast: I see but drill, alone.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Most Worthy Pedagogue, take heed!†   (source)
  • He persuades FAUST to step into the circle.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    IV
    THE STUDY
    FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
    FAUST
    A knock?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    When on an idler's bed I stretch myself in quiet.†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    XXIII
    DREARY DAY
    A FIELD
    FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
    FAUST
    In misery!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Not even a jewel, not a ring,
    To deck therewith my darling girl?†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    Hither to me!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Seest thou the black dog coursing there, through corn and
    stubble?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    And yet, she's older than fourteen.†   (source)
  • my hand's already lame:
    MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    Thrust home!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    A general practice is the same,
    Which Jew and King may also claim.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    If thou therewith art fully satisfied,
    So let us by the farce abide.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thou, who around the wide world wendest,
    Thou busy Spirit, how near I feel to thee!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    What hidden sense in this enigma lies?†   (source)
  • FAUST (before the mirror)
    Woe's me!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    There is, again, thy proper tone!†   (source)
  • FAUST Gnash not thus thy devouring teeth at me?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    By Heaven, the girl is wondrous fair!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    A few more steps ascend, as far as yonder stone!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Yes, when the priest comedian is by nature,
    As haply now and then the case may be.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Why thou shouldst ask, I don't perceive.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Here words and prayers are nothing worth;
    I'll venture, then, to bear thee forth.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    This was the poodle's real core,
    A travelling scholar, then?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Better the summit, I must own:
    There fire and whirling smoke I see.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Why, here in dust, entice me with your spell,
    Ye gentle, powerful sounds of Heaven?†   (source)
  • [Illustration]
    XVI
    MARTHA'S GARDEN
    MARGARET FAUST
    MARGARET
    Promise me, Henry!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Nay, fear him not, my sweetest one!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    What are, within her arms, the heavenly blisses?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Demand'st thou, Pedant, too, a document?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    One moment more I ask thee to remain,
    Some pleasant news, at least, to tell me.†   (source)
  • FAUST (to MEPHISTOPHELES)
    Now, what shall come of this?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    The There my scruples naught increases.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    The purest bliss was surely then thy dower.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    I am not used to that; I cannot stoop to try it—
    To take the spade in hand, and ply it.†   (source)
  • Perceiving FAUST and MEPHISTOPHELES.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Absurder than I ever yet did see.†   (source)
  • [Exeunt FAUST and MEPHISTOPHELES†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Thou nam'st thyself a part, yet show'st complete to me?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    One impulse art thou conscious of, at best;
    O, never seek to know the other!†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Get me something the angel keeps!†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
    How findest thou the tender creatures?†   (source)
  • FAUST
    Wherefore the hag, and her alone?†   (source)
  • FAUST MEPHISTOPHELES
    FAUST
    These crazy signs of witches' craft repel me!†   (source)
  • FAUST (struggling to leave)
    Come!†   (source)
  • The WITCH breaks the circle: FAUST steps forth.†   (source)
  • FAUST
    I've studied now Philosophy
    And Jurisprudence, Medicine,—
    And even, alas!†   (source)
  • FAUST gazes continually in the mirror†   (source)
  • FAUST
    If thou feel'st it is I, then come with me!†   (source)
  • He was where Goethe was when he began "Faust"; he was where Conrad was when he wrote "Almayer's Folly."†   (source)
  • Did I not say, when I was arranging that affair of Faust's, that all Man's reason has done for him is to make him beastlier than any beast.†   (source)
  • This thought pervades all German literature and is mystically expressed in Goethe's "Faust": All things transitory But as symbols are sent.†   (source)
  • The thing had happened in M. Debienne and M. Poligny's time, also in Box Five and also during a performance of FAUST.†   (source)
  • Hurstwood found that he could not talk, repressed as he was, and grudging Drouet every moment of his presence, he bowed himself out with the elegance of a Faust.†   (source)
  • He made out a list of books which Philip was to read till he was ready for the final achievement of Faust, and meanwhile, ingeniously enough, started him on a German translation of one of the plays by Shakespeare which Philip had studied at school.†   (source)
  • As for Paul, he ran down the hill whistling the "Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust, looking wildly behind him now and then to see whether some of his teachers were not there to writhe under his lightheartedness.†   (source)
  • Margaret disliked "Tosca" and "Faust."†   (source)
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.†   (source)
  • Mozart's is the last of the true Don Juans; for by the time he was of age, his cousin Faust had, in the hands of Goethe, taken his place and carried both his warfare and his reconciliation with the gods far beyond mere lovemaking into politics, high art, schemes for reclaiming new continents from the ocean, and recognition of an eternal womanly principle in the universe.†   (source)
  • He had...that is, the house record library contained one particular piece, "Valentin's Prayer" from Gounod's Faust, baritone and orchestra, very attractive.†   (source)
  • "This year I have been three times—to 'Faust,' 'Tosca,' and—" Was it "Tannhouser" or "Tannhoyser"?†   (source)
  • On this particular evening they had invited Sillerton Jackson, Mrs. Archer and Newland and his wife to go with them to the Opera, where Faust was being sung for the first time that winter.†   (source)
  • Goethe's Faust and Mozart's Don Juan were the last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of the Doll's House and asserting herself as an individual instead of a mere item in a moral pageant.†   (source)
  • May gave him a glance of comprehension, and he saw her whisper to his mother, who nodded sympathetically; then she murmured an excuse to Mrs. van der Luyden, and rose from her seat just as Marguerite fell into Faust's arms.†   (source)
  • Faust, "Valentin's Prayer.†   (source)
  • "We'll read Faust together ...by the Italian lakes ..." he thought, somewhat hazily confusing the scene of his projected honey-moon with the masterpieces of literature which it would be his manly privilege to reveal to his bride.†   (source)
  • , with a final burst of love triumphant, as she pressed the dishevelled daisy to her lips and lifted her large eyes to the sophisticated countenance of the little brown Faust-Capoul, who was vainly trying, in a tight purple velvet doublet and plumed cap, to look as pure and true as his artless victim.†   (source)
  • She was applauded all the more; and her debut with Faust seemed about to bring her a new success, when suddenly ...a terrible thing happened.†   (source)
  • Faust had knelt on one knee: "Let me gaze on the form below me, While from yonder ether blue Look how the star of eve, bright and tender, lingers o'er me, To love thy beauty too!"†   (source)
  • Those who heard her say that her voice, in these passages, was seraphic; but this was nothing to the superhuman notes that she gave forth in the prison scene and the final trio in FAUST, which she sang in the place of La Carlotta, who was ill.†   (source)
  • FAUST was played without her.†   (source)
  • The famous baritone, Carolus Fonta, had hardly finished Doctor Faust's first appeal to the powers of darkness, when M. Firmin Richard, who was sitting in the ghost's own chair, the front chair on the right, leaned over to his partner and asked him chaffingly: "Well, has the ghost whispered a word in your ear yet?"†   (source)
  • Debienne and Poligny: GENTLEMEN: We are much obliged for your kind thought of us, but you will easily understand that the prospect of again hearing Faust, pleasant though it is to ex-managers of the Opera, can not make us forget that we have no right to occupy Box Five on the grand tier, which is the exclusive property of HIM of whom we spoke to you when we went through the memorandum-book with you for the last time.†   (source)
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