...fulfillment of its worldly aims. Marlowe 's Tamburlaine shows such innocent enthusiasm when he asks: "Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?" (2.5.53—54). And it is "our souls," he argues, which bid us "never rest / Until we reach the ripest...

...anyway, out of perversity, thinking vaguely about sun cream and enlarging Wycherly's wardrobe. *7s it not passing brave to be a king, and ride in triumph through Persepolis." A half-remembered quote from his college days floated through Wycherly's head. He felt an odd, uncomfortable...

...or supersede him. That inimitable voice sings on." It can rise to the shout of a brutal conqueror: "Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?" Or it can be of ethereal sensuousness: "Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows / Than has the white...

...fulfillment of its worldly aims. Marlowe's Tamburlaine shows such innocent enthusiasm when he asks: "Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?" (2.5.53-54). It is only when the soul experiences the failure of this expectation in the finally empty...

...characters, resolved to affirm their identities in terrifying acts of despair. Tamburlaine's boast, 'Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' (2.5.53-4), and Hieronimo's lament, 'O eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears' (3.2.1), stereotype...

...Language in one of the Empire's copybooks, though it had seemed perfectly at home in bookEnglish: 'Is if not passing brave to be a king, and ride in triumph through Persepolis?' Passing brave — as long as there were flowers thrown, not stones, not crossbow quarrels. And those,...

...is what Tamburlaine envisages: Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridimas, Is it not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Macbeth does not ride in triumph through anywhere; triumph is not his metier. Nor does he long for...

...will inherit. part: Depart, die. 4. passing brave: An ironic echo of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, who asks, 'Is it not passing brave to be a King, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' (Part 1, II v 53-4). 5-6. 'Compute thy substance by ... what thou lookest for in heaven and what thou...

...in Marlowe's play. Tamburlaine is the archetypal Muslim conqueror, the 'scourge of God' who found it passing brave to be a king, and ride in triumph through Persepolis. But Othello remains the most obvious, tragic narrative of our Middle Eastern fears. He is a Muslim...