...a particular idea and not by his general inspiration. The impassioned pursuit of tangible ends — That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown — interested Shakespeare not in itself but as starting problems • in the complex and mysterious...

...infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, 25 Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...crown. Ther. And that made me to join with Tamburlaine; 30 For he is gross and like the massy earth, That moves not upwards, nor by princely deeds Doth mean...

...resdess spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, The perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (I Tamburlaine, n, vii, 18-21, 24-9) These metaphysics of magicians, And necromantic books are heavenly;...

...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...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. Tamburlaine's conquests have no material objective in view: they are, one might almost say, metaphysical...

...ultimate earthly ambition, of something beyond the grasp of ordinary man, as it was for Tamburlaine . . . the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. They both shrink from the deed that is to bring them this symbolic reward, and Lady Macbeth, who makes...

...infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (H.vii. 12-29) The usurper Cosroe's appeal to God to suppress ambitious devils is reinterpreted by...

...this divine striving. The extraordinary drop at the end of 'Nature that framed us of four elements' to That perfect bliss and sole felicity The sweet fruition of an earthly crown (n. vii. 2Sff) has been often observed. It is in vain that Marlowe insists that Tamburlaine despises...

...life is competition, and that the aspiring mind of man Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (II.vii.26-9) It is hard to understand how so sensitive a critic as Una Ellis-Fermor could possibly...

...in|finite, And always mov|ing as | the restless spheres, Wills us | to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That per|fect bliss...felic|ity, The sweet frui|tion of | an earthly crown. (Tamk,rlam, the Great. Part 1,2.7.18-29) As Clemen says: "The scene is built up as a strictly organized...

...infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (Parti, II. 7. 18-29) The speech is delivered by Tamburlaine directly to the audience. And it deliberately...