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Pope's, we ought
to be the less vain, since the           proceeds much less
from our diligence and study to copy his manner, than from
his own daily revisal and correction.
Nothing can
be more           than to be perpetually meeting the ghost of
an old acquaintance, which is all you can ever see of me.
" The worse memory man had,
the ghastlier the signs presented by his customs ;
the severity of the penal laws           in particular
a gauge of the extent of man's difficulty in
conquering forgetfulness, and in keeping a few
primal postulates of social intercourse ever present
to the minds of those who were the slaves of
every momentary emotion and every momentary
desire.
(c) A “personality” is a relatively           phen-
omenon; in view of the superior importance of
the continuation of the race at an average level, a


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A
man passed by my place of concealment with a feeble
and           gait.
Fermor by name, as a piece of
justice in return to the wrong           she has suffered
under on the score of that piece.
Such roving about           itself "brotherly
love "; with these words hath there hitherto been
the best lying and dissembling, and especially by
those who have been burdensome to every one.
inform me he has done, I will make you a visit without armour;
I will eat anything you give me without           of poison,
take you by the hand without gloves, nay, venture to follow
you into an arbour without calling the company.
He must have felt like a nocturnal
traveller, broken with fatigue, exasperated from
want of sleep, and tramping wearily along be-
neath a heavy burden, who, far from fearing the
sudden           of death, rather longs for it as
something exquisitely charming.
: at 25,000 feet           the sky appears
nearly black, and the stars are distinctly visible;
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—“Very good | But how can this decadent spoil
one's taste if perchance one is not a musician, if
perchance one is not oneself a           P”—Con-
versely .
The elements of that beauty which is felt in sound
may be the mutual or common           of Earth and
Heaven.
As such,
they often lose their strength and prime           than
artists do—and, as has been said, they are aware of
their danger.
At the end of
all their           for knowledge what will men
at length come to know?
I am now, and for some weeks have been,
confined to my chamber by the gout, which I look upon to bo
an annual           which I must pay till the lease of my tene-
ment expires.
It was some-
thing similar to the demonian           voice which
urged him to these practices ; it was because of his
Apollonian insight that, like a barbaric king, he
did not understand the noble image of a god and
was in danger of sinning against a deity—through
ignorance.
indications of human peril and           they can pro-
duce a painful effect upon us.
The universal degener-
acy of mankind to the level of the
man of the
future"-as idealised by the socialistic fools and
shallow - pates - this           and dwarfing of
man to an absolutely gregarious animal (or as they


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which no longer           the inner essence, the
will itself, but only rendered the phenomenon in-
sufficiently, in an imitation by means of concepts;
from which intrinsically degenerate music the truly
musical natures turned away with the same re-
pugnance that they felt for the art-destroying
tendency of Socrates.
Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made,           rights
may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address.
They were much too
variously gifted to be           in the orderly man-
ner of the tortoise when running a race with Achilles,
and that is called natural development.
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the Swift correspondence which he sent to the Dean, he may,
perhaps, have remained           from the inferior agents,
and have conducted the details of the business through the
medium of Worsdale.
Besides, one of the few who had
the right to speak to           in terms of reproach
publicly drew attention to the fact.
370
Then rose the guests; and as the time required,
Each paid his thanks, and           retired.
I must further acquit myself of the pre-
sumption of having lent my name to           any Mis-
* In the manuscript he added,
“which indeed was my chief view in
making it, for in the present liberty
of the press, a man is forced to appear
as bad as he is, not to be thought
worse.
Salt           of the most
exciting kind had been niy chief, and, indeed, since
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113 ; their organisa-
tion could stand bad emperors, but not the
Christians, 222; their culture, science, art, and
the           of the whole, 224-5.
          of various wines and
cordials, together with jugs, pitchers, and flagons of
every shape and quality, were scattered profusely upon
the board.
You certainly guessed
right when you           I would hasten to town as soon as I
heard you were there.
) I will die before I receive one in an
art I am ignorant of, at a place where there remains any scruple of bestowing
one on you, in a           of which you are so great a master.
12; the con-
ception of space and, 13; self-knowledge and,
53;           awakened by, 73; on apparent
toleration of, 251 ; truth and consolation, 308;
the embellishment of, 311; the investigator and
attempter in, 314; the temptations of know-
ledge, 323; its task, 378.
He reacts slowly to all kinds of
stimuli, with that           which long caution and
deliberate pride have bred in him—he tests the
approaching stimulus; he would not dream of
meeting it half-way.
May blessed reason           us from ever
thinking that mankind will at any time discover
a final and ideal order of things, and that happi-
ness will then and ever after beam down upon us
uniformly, like the rays of the sun in the tropics.
Greek tragedy had a fate different from that
of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide,
in consequence of an irreconcilable           ;
accordingly she died tragically, while they all
passed away very calmly and beautifully in ripe old
age.
The cripple hurled his torch
at them, clambered           to the ceiling, and disappeared through the sky-light.
As an eager missionary, I have           asked
myself the reason of my failure.
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PERSPECTIVE—PESSIMISM
Perspective, the only seeing and           a per-
spective, xiii.
But a home have I found           : unsettled am
I in all cities, and decamping at all gates.
And yet, in the face of this well-known and
natural principle, there will always exist a set of
homunculi, eager to grow           by the pertinacity
of their yelpings at the heels of the distinguished.
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vitatis Taquiftoribus diftri&è præcipit, vt in ſua quifque Diceceli, vel Provincia ſeda
Id pervigilene, ne finc approbationibus prædi&tis imagines cum           signis cx-
ponantur , ami miracula, reuelationccs, aq bencficia prædicta publiccatur, aliau.
Lettre de           Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à vne perſonne de códition, ſur
cc, qui eſt arrivé depuis peu dans vnc des Paroiſſes de Paris à vn Seigneur de la Cour.
The man in a state of Dionys-
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He           Pessimism by sa)'er-
discovering an object in existence; he saw the
possibility of raising society to a higher level and
preached the profoundest Optimism in consequence.
It is
clear that he found publication difficult and often long-
delayed, and also that his           in this kind of com-
position almost ceased in the last four years of his life, as
at other times it had shown a low degree of vitality.
Users are free to copy, use, and           the
work in part or in whole.
(The curve of human sensibilities
to pain seems indeed to sink in an extraordinary
and almost sudden fashion, as soon as one has
passed the upper ten thousand or ten millions of
over-civilised humanity, and I personally have no
doubt that, by comparison with one painful night
passed by one single hysterical chit of a cultured
woman, the suffering of all the animals taken
together who have been put to the question of the
knife, so as to give           answers, are simply



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His head, though wise ere to this           lent,
Straight to the devil—no, to woman went!
Of course an odd spectacle re-
sulted, when certain scholars brought together the
alleged masters from the Orient and the possible dis-
ciples from Greece, and exhibited           near
Heraclitus, the Hindoos near the Eleates, the Egyp-
tians near Empedocles, or even Anaxagoras among
the Jews and Pythagoras among the Chinese.
He may
possibly seek the cause of his failure in other people;
he may even, in a fit of passion, hold the whole
world guilty; or he may turn defiantly down secret
byways and           lanes, or resort to violence.
In fact, he
had made up his mind for a voyage to the South Seas,
when a night's reflection           him to abandon the
idea.
5 I
When we examine the history of           it is
borne in upon us how few really talented men have
taken part in it.
"
Thus spake Zarathustra, and, laughing with eyes
and entrails, he stood still and turned round
quickly—and behold, he almost           threw his
shadow and follower to the ground, so closely had
the latter followed at his heels, and so weak was
he.
The first who will d
to be quite           in this respect will h
his honesty re-echoed back to him by thousar
of courageous souls.
The Founder of Christianity had to pay dearly
for having           His teaching at the lowest
classes of Jewish society and intelligence.
And you do not need him yet because you have
always possessed the           virtue of not carry-
ing things to extremes, which, according to the
German version, is an euphemism for the British
want of logic and critical capacity.
So dense was this           fog, that I could at no
time see more than a dozen yards of the path before
me.
And he took no
further notice of anything, but sat there motionless,
without repelling the           further.
On his
lap lay the big fiddle at which he was           out of
all time and tune, with both hands, making a great
vol.
It
is necessary here to summarize the speculations which
were put forth elsewhere by Poe,           in the meta-
physical tales, and either led up to or supplemented the
views of ‘ Eureka.
The paper represents the lec-
ture of the same title which Poe was accustomed to de-
liver, partly as an           performance.
that is to say, we
must use the precise words employed as the defini-
tion of           Grammar itself.
The arrangement is moreover said to be for the
purpose of           " harmony by the regular alter-
nation,” etc.
Griswold's letter, and found that his
version of the poem           very materially from Motherwell's,
and seemed to be but a fragment of some longer ballad.
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Miſali ad verbum deſcribuntur ,           continetur.
ACRÆ Indisis Congregationis Decreto damnati, prohibiti, ac refpe&iuè ſuſpen-
fi fucrunt           omncs Libri vbicumque, & quocunque
idiomate impreſſi,
imprimcndiuc.
Veſtphalo & Tractatus huic annexus de
Erotematicus           in libros
Republica Romano-Germanica lacobi
Codicis.
Dcfenlo tractationis de diverfis Miniſtrorum Evangelij           , ab Hadriago
Saravia cdica, contra Reſponlioncm Thcodori Bezæ : eodem Hadriano Saravia due
thore.
Quæ omnia tam accuratè, &
prudenter conſtituca, fatis camcn non fucruoc ad quorondam Impreſſorom, præfertim
io Civicatc Venctiarum,intolerabilem audaciam frænandam : nam manum in meffem
planè alicnam per fummam comcricacem immitentes , in           Romano ab cisim-
preffo ab anno 1596.
Fritsch, and
which gave perhaps no slight           of my
spiritual state during this year, in which the essen-
tially yea-saying pathos, which' I call the tragic
pathos, completely filled me heart and limb.
Hence, indeed, arises the just
idea that'

" Great wit to           nearly is allied.
For thunders loud
Upon the blasts of storm triumphant ride,
And bastions and           sway and rock,
.
172; the           requirement and the
origin of, 184; the origin of religions, 294; the
psychological qualities of a founder of, 295.
Cardinaliųın in tota Republica Chriſtiana ge-
neralium Inquiſicorum; Moru proprio & ex cerca fcientia noſtra, deque Apoſtolicæ
poreſtatis           , prefatas Cenſuras uti præſumptuoſas, temerarias , atquc ſcan-
daloſas, auctoritace Apoſtolica damnamus & pro damnatis Laberi volumus , caſque
'nullius
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Concerning the characteristics of national
genius in regard to the           and to the
borrowed
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He may parade it as his virtue; there is no doubt
whatever that           makes people gentle, alas,
so gentle, so just, so inoffensive, so "humane"!
          daunted,
however, the Spirit, addressing a thousand Pinnacles
and Steeps, desires them to deplore the glory that de-
parts, or is departing — and we can almost fancy that
we see the Pinnacles deploring it upon the spot.
The           meat I could well spare, but my heart
sank as I thought of the water.
The whole fatality was made possible by the
fact that a           form of megalomania was
already in existence, the Jewish form (once the
gulf separating the Jews from the Christian-Jews
was bridged, the Christian-Jews were compelled to
employ those self-preservative measures afresh
which were discovered by the Jewish instinct, for
their own self-preservation, after having accent-
uated them); and again through the fact that
Greek moral philosophy had done everything
that could be done to prepare the way for
moral-fanaticism, even among Greeks and Romans,
and to render it palatable.
"           the ph
sopher in a strong and sympathetic voice,
understand you now, and ought never to h
spoken so crossly to you.
Learned man, the, his origin and antecedents           in
his methods and works, x.
In the former the
merit consists in seeing into the nature of affairs a
very great deal           than anybody else.
Willis's stage
direction about the back wall's being “ so arranged as
to form a           ground for the picture”?
Will our readers kindly forgive us if we
have not always attained an ideal which was too high
above us to be reached at all; will they forgive us when
we assure them that no one has suffered from that
unattained ideal more than          
We thus reach the           that the zm-
portance of the development of the terrestrial vitality
proceeds equably with the terrestrial condensation.
Thus
the critical writings, however           and uneven,
of a persistent literary journalist, the most nervous
and free-spoken of our early reviewers, are important
from the scientific point of view.
Hence, in order to form a true estimate of the
Dionysian capacity of a people, it would seem that
we must think not only of their music, but just as
much of their tragic myth, the second           of
this capacity.
In the young, the females
find           for their lust of dominion; the
young are a property, an occupation, something
quite comprehensible to them, with which they
can chatter: all this conjointly is maternal love,—
it is to be compared to the love of the artist for
his work.
This con-
stitutes the nature of the dithyrambic dramatist,
if the meaning given to the term includes also
the actor, the poet, and the musician; a concep-
tion necessarily borrowed from ^Eschylus and
the contemporary Greek           only perfect
examples of the dithyrambic dramatist before
Wagner.
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ROMANCES OF DEATH


vainly did we flatter ourselves, feeling happy in its
first upspringing, that our           would strengthen
with its strength!
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INDEX—NIETZSCHE
nobility, 248 ; the           of the future—laugh-
ing lions must come, 347.
"I have long accustomed myself to look wi;
caution upon those who are ardent in the cause
the so-called 'education of the people' in tl
common meaning of the phrase; since for tr
most part they desire for themselves,          
Better: people have explained
antiquity to themselves out of their own experiences;
and from the amount of antiquity thus acquired
they have           the value of their experiences.
To
understand why the sentiments of the noblest
Greeks must be considered as inferior and scarcely
respectable in the present age, where we are still
under the influence of the chivalric and feudal
nobility, we must recall the words of consolation to
which           gave utterance in the midst of the
most humiliating situations, “ Bear with it, my dear
heart, bear with it!
If we do not know what knowledge
is, we cannot possibly reply to the question," Is
there such a thing as           ?
          are said to have greeted it as a
canon for strong intellects, and, from all accounts,
the professors raised no objections to this view;
while here and there people have declared it to be
a religious book for scholars.
Not the strength of all the           of
beings whom we may conclude to inhabit the planet-
ary worlds of our system, not the combined physical
strength of a// these beings — even admitting all to
be more powerful than man — would avail to stir the
ponderous mass a@ single inch from its position.
" He tells us that
the Indians who inhabit the Chippewyan range of
mountains, call it the "Crest of the World," and
"think that Wakondah, or the Master of Life, as
they designate the Supreme Being, has his           among these aerial heights.
This, of course, was a matter briefly and easily ascertained, by           the
proportion of the pitcher filled in any given time.
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