 | Percival William Martin - 1999 - 320 Seiten
...air, yet of the earth. In poetry there are innumerable examples of the anima. She is Helen of Troy: the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium. She is Cleopatra, the 'serpent of old Nile': Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.... | |
 | Gerd Labroisse, Dick van Stekelenburg - 1999 - 420 Seiten
...letzten Akt Faust schließlich die wohl berühmteste Frage der englischen Literatur an Mephisto richtet: "Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?"24 Zur gleichen Zeit entsteht das unverkennbarste Gesicht der Weltliteratur, Don Quijote... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 2000 - 564 Seiten
...perfbrm'd in twinkling of an eye. Re-enter HELEN, passing over the stage between two Cupids FAUSTUS Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss — [kisses her Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, 100 And all is dross that is not Helena.... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 Seiten
...obviously brilliant lyrics are seen again and again, as when Doctor Faustus beholds Helen of Troy: Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Illiutn? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! The truly dominant figure during her forty-five-year... | |
 | Daniel McNeill - 2000 - 392 Seiten
...countries. Hence there are no ugly goddesses, and indeed legend is the best cosmetic. Marlowe's Helen had a "face that launch'da thousand ships/ And burnt the topless towers of Ilium." But was she physically beautiful? We don't know. Homer wrote the Iliad 400 years after the event, and... | |
 | Gareth Knight - 2001 - 644 Seiten
...perhaps as well as anywhere in Marlowe's 'Dr. Faustus'; "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?' Sweet...a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it fliesl — Come Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips.... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 Seiten
...(1588), exclaims when Mephistophilis materializes Helen: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Events in the last year of the Trojan War are told in Homer's epic the Iliad; the Trojan state, Ilium,... | |
 | David Grimm - 2001 - 74 Seiten
...What, and drag her name through mud? KIT. Is she not your Helen? Is this not your Troy? Is't not her face that launch'da thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? What is a wedding but a contract? Is your lust confined by law? Go on and talk to her, debauch her,... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 Seiten
...it would give further point to another overlapping sound: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. When this Hellish Helen (whom he has just called "heavenly Helen," 5.1.85) does kiss him, he immediately... | |
 | Alan Shepard, Stephen David Powell Powell - 2004 - 324 Seiten
...lines, through much flapping about of veils and streamers, in the direction of a smug Elizabeth Taylor: Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And...towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss;22 Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies! Come Helen, come, give me my soul again; Here... | |
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Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies !— Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is || in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. 
