Dramatic Works, SelectedJ. Pott & Company, 1885 - 209 pages |
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... entered our world - the Englishman , William Shakespeare . For all of us this must ever be a memorable year . Marlowe's father , a poor shoemaker , was yet able to find a place for his boy in the best school of the city , who passed ...
... entered our world - the Englishman , William Shakespeare . For all of us this must ever be a memorable year . Marlowe's father , a poor shoemaker , was yet able to find a place for his boy in the best school of the city , who passed ...
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... Enter WAGNER . Wagner , commend me to my dearest friends , The German Valdes and Cornelius ; Request them earnestly to visit me . Wag . I will , sir . [ Exit . Faust . Their conference will be a greater help to me Than all my labours ...
... Enter WAGNER . Wagner , commend me to my dearest friends , The German Valdes and Cornelius ; Request them earnestly to visit me . Wag . I will , sir . [ Exit . Faust . Their conference will be a greater help to me Than all my labours ...
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... Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS . Come , German Valdes , and Cornelius , And make me blest with your sage conference , Valdes , sweet Valdes , and Cornelius , Know that your words have won me at the last To practice magic and concealed arts ...
... Enter VALDES and CORNELIUS . Come , German Valdes , and Cornelius , And make me blest with your sage conference , Valdes , sweet Valdes , and Cornelius , Know that your words have won me at the last To practice magic and concealed arts ...
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... Enter Devils . And fall into the ocean , ne'er be found ! O , mercy , heaven ! look not so fierce on me ! Adders and serpents , let me breathe a while ! Ugly hell , gape not ! come not , Lucifer ! I'll burn my books ! —O Mephistophilis ...
... Enter Devils . And fall into the ocean , ne'er be found ! O , mercy , heaven ! look not so fierce on me ! Adders and serpents , let me breathe a while ! Ugly hell , gape not ! come not , Lucifer ! I'll burn my books ! —O Mephistophilis ...
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... enter my distemper'd thoughts , Till I have answer from my Abigail . [ Enter ABIGAIL above . Abig . Now have I happily espied a time To search the plank my father did appoint ; And here , behold , unseen , where I have found The gold ...
... enter my distemper'd thoughts , Till I have answer from my Abigail . [ Enter ABIGAIL above . Abig . Now have I happily espied a time To search the plank my father did appoint ; And here , behold , unseen , where I have found The gold ...
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Æneas Archbish arms art thou Arundel Ascanius Baldock Barabas barons bear beauty blood breast brother crown death Dido doth drama Earl Earl of Cornwall Earl of Kent earth Edmund Edward II England's Enter Exeunt eyes fair farewell father Faustus favour fear France Friar friends Ganymede Gaveston gentle give gold golden gone grace grief Gurney hands hast thou hath head heart heaven hell hence Hero Hero and Leander honour Isabel Itha Jove Kent Killingworth kiss Lancaster Leander Levune live look lord Madam majesty Marlowe Marlowe's Matrevis Mephistophilis Mortimer mov'd murder ne'er never noble passion Pembroke Pembroke's men Pilia poet prince proud Queen SCENE soldiers soul speak Spen Spencer stay sweet sword Tamb Tamburlaine tears tell thee thou hast thou shalt thou wilt Tibullus traitor unto Venus villain Warwick words wound Zenocrate
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Page 31 - 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.
Page 27 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Page 194 - And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Page 4 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Page 29 - Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...
Page viii - Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave translunary things That the first poets had ; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear ; For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
Page 48 - I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Page 37 - Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings; Vex'd and tormented, runs poor Barrabas, With fatal curses towards these Christians.
Page 107 - Gallop apace, bright Phoebus, through the sky, And dusky night, in rusty iron car, Between you both shorten the time, I pray, That I may see that most desired day When we may meet these traitors in the field.
Page 28 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world For pleasant fruits and princely delicates...