 | Charles Lamb - 1808 - 512 Seiten
...swoln with cunning and a self Conceit > His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting, heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish...now with Learning's golden gifts, He surfeits on the cursetl necromancy. Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest blisst... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 508 Seiten
...conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting, heavens Conspired his overthrow i For falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now...prefers before his chiefest bliss. Faustus in his study i runt through the circle of and being satisfied with none of themt determines to addict himself to... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 Seiten
...swoln with cunning, and a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach. And melting heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish...to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss, And this the man that in his study sits. FAUSTUS in his study. Faust. Settle thy studies, Faustus,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816 - 412 Seiten
...th' heavenly matters of theology: Till swoln with cunning, and a self-conceit, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now \vith Learning's golden gifts, He surfeits on the cursed necromancy. Nothing so sweet as magic is to... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 1070 Seiten
...swoln with cunning, and a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish...to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss, And this the man that in his study sits. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. FAUSTUS in his study. FAUST. Settle... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 348 Seiten
...swoln with cunning, and a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish...to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss, And this the man that in his study sits. ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. FAUSTUS in his study. FAUST. Settle... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 Seiten
...th' heavenly matters of theology : His waxen wings did mount above his reach ; And melting heavens conspired his overthrow : For falling to a devilish...to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss, Whereas his kinsman chiefly brought him up. And this the man that in his study sits. ACT THE FIRST.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 802 Seiten
...Whereas his kinsmen chiefly brought him up. So much he profits in Divinity, That shortly he was grac'd with Doctor's name, Excelling all, and sweetly can...to him, Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss. Fauttut in his ttudy, runs through the circle of the sciences ; and being satisfied with none of them,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 Seiten
...much likewise in equal bars, lengthening, however, a verse here and there with admirable effect : " For falling to a devilish exercise. And glutted now...golden gifts, He surfeits on the cursed necromancy." — Fmutus. " Leicester, if gentle words might comfort me, Thy speeches long ago had eased my sorrou>»."... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1840 - 346 Seiten
...self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach. And melting heavens conspired his overthrow ; In falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with...golden gifts, He surfeits on the cursed Necromancy." The play then begins with a soliloquy of Faust, in his study, reasoning on the value of the different... | |
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He surfeits on the 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. 
