All 7 Uses of
endeavor
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- I tell you, give them more and ever more and more, And then your mark you'll hardly stray from ever; To mystify be your endeavor, To satisfy is labor sore….†
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- 'tis true I'm more clever than all the foplings, Doctors, Magisters, Authors, and Popelings; Am plagued by no scruple, nor doubt, nor cavil, Nor lingering fear of hell or devil— What then? all pleasure is fled forever; To know one thing I vainly endeavor, There's nothing wherein one fellow-creature Could be mended or bettered with me for a teacher.†
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- Two souls, alas! are lodged in my wild breast, Which evermore opposing ways endeavor, The one lives only on the joys of time, Still to the world with clamp-like organs clinging; The other leaves this earthly dust and slime, To fields of sainted sires up-springing.†
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- My promise, rightly understood, Fulfils my nature's whole endeavor.†
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- What am I then? if that for which my heart Yearns with invincible endeavor, The crown of man, must hang unreached forever?†
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- E'en we can't do without a head, however; To choose a pope let us endeavour.†
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- To keep my wits I must endeavor!†
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Definition:
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(endeavor) to attempt; or a project or activity attempted