 | Austin Phelps - 1886 - 358 страници
...can not be proved that a being who can sin will not sin. Power to do is itself temptation to do. " The freewill tempted me, — the power to do, or not to do," says Coleridge's Wallenstein. Few men can stand on the summit of a lofty tower without a momentary... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1887 - 348 страници
...Because I did not scowl temptation from my presence, Dallied with thoughts of possible fulfillment, Commenced no movement, left all time uncertain, And...toys of air, And clutch fantastic sceptres moving toward me ? Was not the will kept free ? Beheld I not The road of duty close beside me — but One... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1887 - 404 страници
...presence, Dallied with thoughts of possible fulfillment, Commenced no movement, left all time uncerlain, And only kept the road, the access open ? By the great...toys of air, And clutch fantastic sceptres moving toward me? Was not the will kept free ? Beheld I not The road of duty close beside me — but One little... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1887 - 348 страници
...the access open? By the great God of heaven 1 it was not My serious meaning, it was ne'er resolved. The free-will tempted me, the power to do Or not to...toys of air, And clutch fantastic sceptres moving toward me? Was not the will kept free ? Beheld ! not The road of duty close beside me — but One little... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1895 - 460 страници
...it. ILLO. SCENE IV. WAIJ.ENSTKIN (in soliloquy). Is it possible ? Js't so ? I can no longer what 1 would ? No longer draw back at my liking? I Must do...Was it criminal To make the fancy minister to hope, fa To fill the air with pretty toys of air, And clutch fantastic sceptres moving toward me? Was not... | |
 | Karl Groos - 1898 - 380 страници
...I Must do the deed because I thought of it f I but amused myself with thinking of it. The free will tempted me, the power to do Or not to do it. — Was it criminal To make the fancy minister to hope ? Was not the will kept free ? Beheld I not The road of duty close beside me — but One little step... | |
 | Karl Groos - 1898 - 376 страници
...I Must do the deed because I thought of it t I but amused myself with thinking of it. The free will tempted me, the power to do Or not to do it. — Was it criminal To make the fancy minister to hopet Was not the will kept free 1 Beheld I not The road of duty close beside me — but One little... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1900 - 350 страници
...1 it was not My serious meaning, it was ne'er resolved. I but amused myself with thinking of it, 1 The free-will tempted me, the power to do Or not to...toys of air, And clutch fantastic sceptres moving toward me ? Was not the will kept free ? Beheld l not The road of duty close besido me—but One little... | |
 | United States. 56th Congress, 1st session, 1899-1900 - 1900 - 170 страници
...dark astrologer aspiring for empire, have consulted the stars in their course and said : Is it wrong to make the fancy minister to hope, To fill the air with pretty toys of air, And clutch fantastic scepters moving toward me? But if he had such ambitions, Mr. President, they were noble ambitions.... | |
 | Max Koch - 1901 - 534 страници
...Because I did not scowl temptation from my presence, Dallied with thoughts of possible fulfilment? Was it criminal To make the fancy minister to hope,...And clutch fantastic sceptres moving t'ward me?"*) Ähnlich Giacomo: „Ask me not what I think; the unwilling brain Feigns often what it would not; and... | |
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And fed this heart here with a dream ? Because I did not scowl temptation from my presence, Dallied with thoughts of possible fulfilment, Commenced no movement, left all time uncertain, And only kept the road, the access open ? By the great God of Heaven!... 
