The Master Builder: A Play in Three Acts

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W. Heinemann, 1892 - 227 sivua
 

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Sivu 126 - That is the price which my position as an artist has cost me— -and others. And every single day I have to look on while the price is paid for me anew. Over again, and over again — and over again for ever!
Sivu xvii - I have grown to believe that an old man, seated in his arm-chair, waiting patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house; interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light; submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny...
Sivu xvii - I have grown to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the...
Sivu xvii - Hilda and Solness are, I believe, the first characters in drama who feel, for an instant, that they are living in the atmosphere of the soul; and the discovery of this essential life that exists in them, beyond the life of every day, comes fraught with terror.
Sivu xvii - what is it that, in The Master Builder, the poet has added to life, thereby making it appear so strange, so profound, and so disquieting beneath its trivial surface?" The discovery is not easy, and the old master hides from us more than one secret. It would even seem as though what he has wished to say were but little by the side of what he has been compelled to say. He has freed certain powers of the soul that have...
Sivu 128 - Solness (softly, with emotion). For building up the souls of little children, Hilda. For building up children's souls in perfect balance, and in noble and beautiful forms.

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