| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 Seiten
...wonderful. The dirgelike character of the lines spoken by the chorus, quoted before, is noteworthy. " Enter Chorus Cut is the branch that might have grown full...bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Paustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder... | |
| Hargrave Jennings - 1996 - 334 Seiten
...to overpass his nature, and to "rush in"— like the fool—where " Angels fear to tread." " Cut u the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man; Who*e fiendful fortune may exhort the wise... | |
| M. C. Bradbrook - 1974 - 188 Seiten
...message, which by opening a book at random Laruelle receives from the dead Consul - his Faustian epitaph: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone; regard his hellish fall . . . Perhaps Lowry... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1914 - 276 Seiten
...and Adonis. His epitaph is for ever that of his own lines : Cut is the branch that might have groTrn full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Two university men of the day, Robert Greene the novelist and George Peele the poet, were at once fascinated... | |
| Louis Ule, Christopher Marlowe - 1979 - 614 Seiten
...the hranch that might haue growne full straight, And hurned is Apollo's Lawrell hough. That some time grew within this learned man, Faustus is gone, regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendfull fortune may exhort the wise Onely to wonder at vnlawfull things: Whost deepnesse doth intice... | |
| Albert S. Gérard - 1986 - 678 Seiten
...for Nigerian poetry: of his poetic genius might be said what Marlowe wrote of Dr Faustus' learning: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,...laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man253 The development of Nigerian poetry in English from its beginnings to the civil war exhibited... | |
| Thomas Dabbs - 1991 - 188 Seiten
...Faustus, thus providing a trace of the thread of literary thought that held his "school" together. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,...bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. 37 These lines are of course directed toward the fallen hero in Faustus, but, as Symonds reminds the... | |
| C. S. Lewis - 1994 - 248 Seiten
...Dissimuletur idem; varius sis et tamen idem. It sounds dreadful. But it is nor so in the Psalms, nor in Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. Less successful is When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter... | |
| David Lyle Jeffrey - 1996 - 420 Seiten
...wither, who brings forth fruit in his season" (Ps. 1:3). The last stanza of Marlowe's version begins: "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, / And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, / That some time grew within this learned man . . . (B[1616], 2114-16). The allusion is, of course, classical,... | |
| C.S. Lewis - 1996 - 262 Seiten
...Hebrew form of the same in the other, but it occurs in many English poets too: for example, in Marlowe's Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, or in the childishly simple form used by the Cherry Tree Carol, Joseph was an old man and an old man... | |
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