| Donald Morris - 2006 - 470 Seiten
...Faustus instructs Mephastophilis: "Go bear these tidings to great Lucifer. Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death By desperate thoughts against Jove's...surrenders up to him his soul So he will spare him tour and twenty years. Letting him live in all voluptuousness, Having thee ever to attend on me, To... | |
| Robert Zaller - 2007 - 844 Seiten
...bargain. At another moment, he reasons that he is only giving up what he can no longer hope to save, "Seeing Faustus hath incurr'd eternal death/ By desperate thoughts against Jove's deity" (1.3.85-86), and that in any case the loss is trivial compared to the prospective gain: "Had I as many... | |
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