Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 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,... Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama - Seite 637von John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 668 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 Seiten
...eternal punishment. A chorus then speaks lines that might well be applied to Marlowe's early death — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,...laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Marlowe did not write the comic scenes. They were interpolated by another hand, probably to please... | |
| Richard Schröder - 1896 - 44 Seiten
...be applied to his conduct and history, with a sense more extended than Marlow meant them to bear — 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; Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 Seiten
...Lucifer! I'll burn my books! — Ah, Mephistophilis! [Exeunt Devils with Faustus.} Enter Chorus Chorus — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,... | |
| Robert Greene - 1898 - 140 Seiten
...Glossary by ALEXANDER B. GROSART DD, LL.D. JM DENT AND CO. ALDINE HOUSE : LONDON 1898 1898 Oflp.3 ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man.' MARLOWE'S Faustus. PREFACE Editions of the... | |
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 Seiten
...I'll burn my books ! — Ah, Mephistophilis! [Exeunt Devils with FAUSTUS. Enter Chorus. Chorus — 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. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1899 - 406 Seiten
...the baser part of his nature, and the final words of the chorus in his play were his own epitaph : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 Seiten
...I'll burn my books ! — Ah, Mephistophilis ! [Exeunt Devils with FAUSTUS. Enter Chorus. Chorus — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, i That some time grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall,... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 Seiten
...I'll burn my books I — Ah, Mephistophilis! [Exeunt Devils with FAUSTOI. Enter Chorus. Chorut — 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. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall,... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 566 Seiten
...Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is Appollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall Whose flendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things Whose deepness doth entice such... | |
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