7 Verbs to Use for the Word faust

I took this afternoon Mr. H., a young English officer, who, in the course of the conversation, mentioned that he was reading "Faust," but found it somewhat difficult.

Some thirty of his contemporaries had produced their "Fausts" during the interval which elapsed between the inception and publication of his great work.

In the one classic and perfect literary product that ever came out of GermanyI do not mean "Faust," but Grimm's Fairy Talesthere is a gorgeous story about a boy who went through a number of experiences without learning how to shudder.

But even the more profound among the few German scholars then extant in England did not understand "Faust," and were inclined to condemn it,as, for instance, Coleridge, who, as we see from his "Table-Talk," misconceived the whole idea of the poem, and found fault with the execution, because it was different from what he fancied he himself would have made of this legend, had he taken it in hand.

Said Goethe, laughing, "Really, I should not have recommended you to undertake 'Faust.'

But we may confidently assert that he could not, after the age of forty, have originated the poem, any more than before his Italian tour he could have written the second "Faust," purporting to be a continuation of the first.

We have already seen 'Faust' twice, and are going again soon, and shall take the George Macdonalds this time.

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  faust