The History of a Man
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Fantastic as the design is, all is there. The queer contradictions of human nature; the farce which borders or breaks out amidst the tragedy ; the sinkings and soarings of man — in the morning mating with angels in studious con- templation, and spending the night, as he says, ' On some harlot's lieaving breast ;' the flights of high thoughts, like eagles ; of soft emotions, like doves ; and of dark passions and darker doubts, like ravens which cross our sky and perch on our souls continu- ally;... the ingrained selfishness of man's nature, working in his love, in his hate, in his pleasure, and in his devotion — mining in his hell, and colouring the tints of his heaven ; the restlessness and dissatisfaction attending all the movements of our speculative understanding; the dark, bitter, burning drop that lies at the bottom of every cup of pleasure, — are all faithfully given. 'Tis just a 'Devil's Dream' of man, done into German by Johann Von Baron Goethe, and could only have been so well done by a scoundrel, who knew by hearsay, observation, and experience, all the evil that was in man, and to whom, for the nonce, 'all power' was given — by some daemon — I suppose, to represent it, but who knew very little of the self-devotion, the disinterestedness, and the kindliness, EDINBUEGH.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Fantastic as the design is, all is there. The queer contradictions of human nature; the farce which borders or breaks out amidst the tragedy ; the sinkings and soarings of man — in the morning mating with angels in studious con- templation, and spending the night, as he says, ' On some harlot's lieaving breast ;' the flights of high thoughts, like eagles ; of soft emotions, like doves ; and of dark passions and darker doubts, like ravens which cross our sky and perch on our souls continu- ally;... the ingrained selfishness of man's nature, working in his love, in his hate, in his pleasure, and in his devotion — mining in his hell, and colouring the tints of his heaven ; the restlessness and dissatisfaction attending all the movements of our speculative understanding; the dark, bitter, burning drop that lies at the bottom of every cup of pleasure, — are all faithfully given. 'Tis just a 'Devil's Dream' of man, done into German by Johann Von Baron Goethe, and could only have been so well done by a scoundrel, who knew by hearsay, observation, and experience, all the evil that was in man, and to whom, for the nonce, 'all power' was given — by some daemon — I suppose, to represent it, but who knew very little of the self-devotion, the disinterestedness, and the kindliness, EDINBUEGH.
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