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,... Punch - Seite 108herausgegeben von - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1919 - 858 Seiten
...or Sidney at Zutphen ; and I even reluctantly forego, appropriate as it is, the lovely valediction: "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough." I would, if possible, shield Joyce Kilmer from the sentimentality which has brought a derivative and... | |
| 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, Whose fiendful... | |
| 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, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Marlowe did not write the comic scenes. They... | |
| 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, Whose fiendful... | |
| 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 Play. Until... | |
| 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, Whose fiendful... | |
| 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, Whose fiendful... | |
| 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, Whose fiendful... | |
| 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 Whose fiendful... | |
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