 | Edward Dowden, Thomas Carlyle, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 525 Seiten
...desires no beauty but that of " the fairest maid in Germany," or the beauty of Helen of Troy : — " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towera of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." He chooses no song but Homer's song,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889
...play fall so little short of Greek, that I shall but shame my own by quoting them before hand; "Is this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt...Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!" DRAMATIS PERSONS. AGAMEMNON, King of Argos. CLYTEMNESTRA, his Queen. ^£GISTHUS, his Cousin. CASSANDRA,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 376 Seiten
...Enter Helen again, passing over between two Cupids. Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. {Kisses her. Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 461 Seiten
...fetches her, and Faustus exclaims : " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena: Oh, thou art fairer... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 515 Seiten
...address to the apparition of Helen : Be-enter Helen. Faustus. Was this the face that launoh'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. [Kisset her.] Her lips suck forth my soul ! See, where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul... | |
 | Torben Lundbeck - 1890 - 238 Seiten
...herre — i den kælne Arethusas azurblå arme — og ingen uden du skal være min elskede ! — l) ') »Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, »And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Vi kommer nu til slutningsscenen, det mest storslåede maleri af dødsangst og sjælekval i hele... | |
 | 1890
...to him in a vision, he exclaims : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1158 Seiten
...dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Fauttui. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul : 4 see, where it flies ! Ibid. Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1891 - 315 Seiten
...by desire of Faustus. Faust. Was this the face that launch' da thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with...kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it fli.fi. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heav'n is in these lips, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1891 - 79 Seiten
...thoughtful as these?" The first quoted passage begins,— "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips sunk forth my soul! see where it flies ; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again 1 Here will I dwell,... | |
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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. 
