The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Preface. Introduction. 1st pt. of Tamburlaine. 2d pt. of Tamburlaine. The tragical history of Dr. FaustusJohn C. Nimmo., 1885 |
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... never tires of teaching is that a lofty aim , even where failure follows , " surpasses little works achieved . " Surely no man ever aimed higher than Marlowe ; and within so short a space of life few have carried out so worthily their ...
... never tires of teaching is that a lofty aim , even where failure follows , " surpasses little works achieved . " Surely no man ever aimed higher than Marlowe ; and within so short a space of life few have carried out so worthily their ...
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... never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all , That perfect bliss and sole felicity , The sweet fruition of an earthly crown . " ( ii . 7. ) The ear exults in the sonorous march of the stately verse as each successive line paces ...
... never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all , That perfect bliss and sole felicity , The sweet fruition of an earthly crown . " ( ii . 7. ) The ear exults in the sonorous march of the stately verse as each successive line paces ...
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... never such a doctor . " Now 1 Hazlitt mentions an edition of 1611. Mr. Frederick Locker has an unique edition of 1619. ( I owe my knowledge of these editions to the exhaustive " Bibliography of Marlowe's Faustus , " by Mr. Heinemann in ...
... never such a doctor . " Now 1 Hazlitt mentions an edition of 1611. Mr. Frederick Locker has an unique edition of 1619. ( I owe my knowledge of these editions to the exhaustive " Bibliography of Marlowe's Faustus , " by Mr. Heinemann in ...
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... never attempted to write a comic scene . The Muses had dowered him with many rare qualities- nobility and tenderness and pity - but the gift of humour , the most grateful of all gifts , was withheld . To excite " tears and laughter for ...
... never attempted to write a comic scene . The Muses had dowered him with many rare qualities- nobility and tenderness and pity - but the gift of humour , the most grateful of all gifts , was withheld . To excite " tears and laughter for ...
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... never be forgotten . It must be allowed that Marlowe did not perceive the full capabilities afforded by the legend he adopted ; that crudeness of treatment is shown in making Faustus abandon the pursuit of supernatural knowledge , and ...
... never be forgotten . It must be allowed that Marlowe did not perceive the full capabilities afforded by the legend he adopted ; that crudeness of treatment is shown in making Faustus abandon the pursuit of supernatural knowledge , and ...
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Seite 98 - If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest...
Seite 52 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Seite 288 - You stars that reign'd at my nativity, Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist...
Seite 287 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.
Seite xxvi - Nature that fram'd us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Seite 289 - That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Seite 199 - There is a God, full of revenging wrath, From whom the thunder and the lightning breaks, Whose scourge I am, and Him will I obey.
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Seite 219 - In heavenly matters of theology ; Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And. melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; For, falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with learning's golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed necromancy; Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss: And this the man that in his study sits.
Seite 287 - O spare me, Lucifer! — Where is it now? 'tis gone; and see where God Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!