 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 Quarterly Review - Page 411915Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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 withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly... | |
 | 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 withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces; The other strongly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly... | |
 | 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 withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly... | |
 | Paul Carus - 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... | |
 | 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 withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces ; The other strongly... | |
 | Maximus A. Lesser - 1894 - 302 pages
...Taylor's Translation: " One impulse art thou conscious of, at best ; O, never seek to know the other l Two souls, alas ! reside within my breast, . And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And cling ng lust the world in its embraces; The other strongly... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 478 pages
...bright around you! FAUST One impulse art thou conscious of, at best; Oh, never seek to know the other! 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... | |
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