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....
What ails you?†Chpt All *
- 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.†Chpt All
- 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.†Chpt All
- My promise, rightly understood,
Fulfils my nature's whole endeavor.†Chpt All
- if that for which my heart
Yearns with invincible endeavor,
The crown of man, must hang unreached forever?†Chpt All
- E'en we can't do without a head, however;
To choose a pope let us endeavour.†Chpt Allunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavor.
- To keep my wits I must endeavor!†
Chpt All
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted