...of the iambic pentameter (I use capitals and brackets to clarify the construction): (62) OUR SOULES, (whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And measure euery wandring planets course,] |Still climing after knowledge infinite, And alwais mouing as the restles...

...exposition of Shakespeare's general meantug will be found m Marlowe's famous lines from Tamburlame: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world . . My contention is that Hamlet, in surveying man's various anributes, characterizes, by his comparison...

...boys; what death forbids my life, That let your lives command in spite of death. Men are sought . . . whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture...world, And measure every wandering planet's course, till climbing after knowledge infinite, Ami always moving as the restless spheres Wills us to wear...

...empyreal Heaven, Moved me to manage arms against thy state. What better precedent than mighty Jove? Nature that framed us of four elements. Warring within our breasts for regiment, 2 Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous...

...tumultuous. In Tamburlaine's famous speech on ambition, such tumultuousness is perceived as natural: "Nature, that framed us of four elements / Warring...regiment, / Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds." 7 Exercise, according to Elyot, works only when it is violent enough to expel "thinges superfluous"...

...Wiccanwannabes, and ego ring-kissers in favor of those who are truly walking the walk. Elements Nature thatfram'd us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for...regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. — CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE gether by Spirit) constitute an amazing storehouse of symbolism and power that...

...any in the medieval West of his day. He creates a Tamburlaine full of romantic yearning: "Our soules, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And measure every wandering planets course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And alwaies moving as the restless Spheares,...

...Tamburlaine, like Christopher Marlowe, he was by instinct an overreacher, at work to the very end: Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within...wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wand'ring planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless...

...cannons are fired — but the core of its appeal is its incantatory celebration of the will to power: Nature, that framed us of four elements, Warring within...wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wand'ring planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless...

...empyreal heaven, Moved me to manage arms against thy state. What better precedent than mighty Jove? Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within...wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wand'ring planet's course. Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless...