Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by John LylyWhittingham and Rowland, 1814 - English drama |
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... never to be al- lowed . " It has been asserted , and the Editor believes justly , notwithstanding the distance of time by which it preceded it , that we are indebted for this glorious distinction , with which no nation , Greece and ...
... never to be al- lowed . " It has been asserted , and the Editor believes justly , notwithstanding the distance of time by which it preceded it , that we are indebted for this glorious distinction , with which no nation , Greece and ...
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... never laboured to depict the pro- gress of the passion ; they struck at once the chord which vibrated to the heart , and left the rest to imagination and feeling . They were phi- losophers , too , and that of the highest order ...
... never laboured to depict the pro- gress of the passion ; they struck at once the chord which vibrated to the heart , and left the rest to imagination and feeling . They were phi- losophers , too , and that of the highest order ...
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... never issued from the press : if the Editor has some- times no other retreat from his oversights and errors than through his reader's kindness , it may be remembered in his favour , that it is a cour- tesy he has invariably extended to ...
... never issued from the press : if the Editor has some- times no other retreat from his oversights and errors than through his reader's kindness , it may be remembered in his favour , that it is a cour- tesy he has invariably extended to ...
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... never wrote . " Impossible as such a thing may now appear , it was by no means uncommon in those days , and some- times practised during the author's life - time . I should hardly be justified if I did not mention that Mr. Malone ...
... never wrote . " Impossible as such a thing may now appear , it was by no means uncommon in those days , and some- times practised during the author's life - time . I should hardly be justified if I did not mention that Mr. Malone ...
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... never ask such a question ; for is he not corpus naturale , and is not that mobile ? then , wherefore should you ask me such a question ? but that I am by nature phlegmatic , slow to wrath , and prone to lechery ( to love I would say ) ...
... never ask such a question ; for is he not corpus naturale , and is not that mobile ? then , wherefore should you ask me such a question ? but that I am by nature phlegmatic , slow to wrath , and prone to lechery ( to love I would say ) ...
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Accius Alvero Apollo arms ass's ears Balt Baltazar beard Benv Benvolio blood Cand Candius Card cardinal cittern Clown Cole cozened Crab crown damn'd daughter death devil Doctor Faustus dost doth Drom Dromio Eleaz Eleazar Enter Erist Exeunt Exit eyes father Faustus fool Friars gold Half Halfpenny hand hath head hear heart heaven hell here's honour horse Horten Hortenzo king Lesbos Licio Livia lord Lucifer LUST'S DOMINION Maria Mart Martius master Master Doctor Mellacrites Memphio Mendoza Meph Mephostophilis Midas Moor Mother Bombie Motto never Phil Philip Phrygia Pope Prince Prince Philip Pris Prisius queen Risio SCENE Scho Silena slave soul Spain Sper stand Stel Stellio Stinkard sweet tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt tongue villain word Zarack Zounds
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Page 347 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew"d, so sanded; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-kneed and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 80 - 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 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 80 - O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 15 - I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair Wittenberg; I'll have them fill the public schools with silk...
Page 31 - Ay, and body too: but what of that? Think'st thou that Faustus is so fond to imagine That, after this life, there is any pain? Tush, these are trifles and mere old wives
Page 87 - It strikes, it strikes ; now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to Hell. [Thunder and lightning. O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean : ne'er be found.
Page 86 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!
Page 32 - When I behold the heavens, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys.
Page vii - ... plays. This however is certain, that he is the first who taught either tragedy or comedy to please, there being no theatrical piece of any older writer, of which the name is known, except to antiquaries and collectors of books, which are sought because they are scarce, and would not have been scarce, had they been much esteemed.
Page 22 - So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me; To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will.