 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 Seiten
...And, melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow ; For, falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with learning's golden gifts, He surfeits upon cursed...sweet as magic is to him, Which he prefers before his chicfest bliss : And this the man that in his study sits.4 FAUSTUS discorered in his study. Faust.... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2007 - 296 Seiten
...reach And melting, heavens conspired his overthrow! (19-21) Faustus becomes "glutted with learning's gifts": He surfeits upon cursed necromancy: Nothing so sweet as magic is to him . . . (22-23) Faustus has reached the limit of the human arts. He can reason well, and thus has reached... | |
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In heavenly matters of theology ; Till swoln with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And. melting, heavens conspir'd his overthrow; For, falling to a devilish exercise, And glutted now with learning's golden gifts,... 
