Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces. The Prolongation of life - Page 284by Elie Metchnikoff - 1908 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bible - 1876 - 828 pages
...worthy object of our conscious attention. The Faust of Goethe is made to say : " Two souls, alas I reside within my breast, And each withdraws from and repels its brother. One with tenacious organ holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1871 - 438 pages
...around you ! FAUST. One impulse art thou conscious of, at best ; O, never seek to know the other ! Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each...sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces. If there be airy spirits near,« 'Twixt Heaven and Earth on potent errands fleeing, Let them drop down... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1872 - 340 pages
...bright around you! FAUST. One impulse art thou conscious of, at best; O, never seek to know the other! Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each...sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces. If there be airy spirits near,43 'Twixt Heaven and Earth on potent errands fleeing, Let them drop down... | |
| Bible - 1876 - 898 pages
...only intrinsically worthy object of our conscious attention. The Faust of Goethe is made to say : " Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each...withdraws from and repels its brother. One with tenacious organ holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps, this dust... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1881 - 346 pages
...bright around you! FAUST. One impulse art thou conscious of, at best; O, never seek to know the other! Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each...brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And dinging lust the world in its embraces; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1882 - 872 pages
...to know the other ! Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from^and repelSj its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love...sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces. If there be airy spirits near," 'Twixt Heaven and Earth on potent errands fleeing, Let them drop down... | |
| Alexander Wysard - 1883 - 102 pages
...duties, the bitter sense of the duality of his nature, renew their power over his better self: — " Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each...this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces." He appeals already to the airy spirits, if they really are between " Heaven and earth," to bear him... | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883 - 888 pages
...around you ! FAUST. One impulse art thou conscious of, at best : O, never seek to know the other ! Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each...sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces. • If there be airy spirits near,-1' 'Twixt Heaven and Earth on potent errands fleeing, Let them drop... | |
| Paul Carus - Monism - 1885 - 92 pages
...men, has only one soul : "One impulse art thou conscious of at best, O never seek to know the other, Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from and repels its brother." Kant with his private character has not in the least impeached Goethe's idea of Faust. The more noteworthy... | |
| Literature - 1888 - 892 pages
...question for him. Faust, whom Goethe makes the type of the aspiring nature in man, says of himself, — Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, And each...world in its embraces ; The other strongly sweeps his dust above Into the high ancestral spaces. Every thinking man at the outset of hia career, at least,... | |
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