 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 Seiten
...wait upon his heavy funeral.' So the Chorus : ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man.' And still more affecting are his own conflicts of mind and agonising doubts on this subject just before,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 540 Seiten
...not published till 1834. Lamb misquotes Marlowe's " Faustus." The passage runs (Scene xvi. (a)) : — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,...sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus is gone. Lamb gives it in his Dramatic Specimens. Goethe admired Lamb's sonnet on his family name. " Manchester."... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1903 - 378 Seiten
...twelve, and Lucifer and his attendants rush in and bear him away ; and in the pathetic words of the final chorus : — " Cut is the branch that might have grown...straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone." It was no wonder that such a play, so finely... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1903 - 152 Seiten
...be applied to his conduct and history, with a sense more extended than Marlow meant them to bear— Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight; And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That some time grew within this learned man; Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 468 Seiten
...and example might have exalted the earth-born Titan to a seat among the gods, but it was not to be : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. THOMAS KYD (1559-1595 ?) may be regarded as an understudy of Marlowe, Thomas whose freethinking views... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 466 Seiten
...and example might have exalted the earth-born Titan to a seat among the gods, but it was not to be : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. THOMAS KYD (1559-1595 ?) may be regarded as an understudy of Marlowe, Thomas whose freethinking views... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1903 - 278 Seiten
...forget the splendid promise and melody of Keats' fragment, Hyperion: alas, — " Cut is the brancli that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough." (/) VERSE OF Six STRESSES. The Alexandrine has already been noticed. Popular at the beginning of Queen... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 718 Seiten
...Cut is the branch that bore the goodly fruit, And withered is Apollo's laurel tree. Faustus is dead. [Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone — ] . . as if the figurative had flagged... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 686 Seiten
...Cut is the branch thai bore the goodly fruit, And withered is Apollo's laurel tree. Faustus is dead. [Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone — ] " What a noble natural transition from... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1904 - 710 Seiten
...Cut is the branch that bore the goodly fruit, And withered is Apollo's laurel tree. Faustus is dead. [Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone — ] " What a noble natural transition from... | |
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That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. 
