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Page xxiv
... legend which in itself he treats with so light a touch , Greene has engrafted a charming love - idyll , fresh with the sparkling dew of the meadows ; there is nothing sombre in the action , even where it takes us into the Friar's cell ...
... legend which in itself he treats with so light a touch , Greene has engrafted a charming love - idyll , fresh with the sparkling dew of the meadows ; there is nothing sombre in the action , even where it takes us into the Friar's cell ...
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... Legends of The main themes of both these plays are derived from magic and magicians : that vast and infinitely interwoven body of legend which deals with magicians - men who have become possessed of powers and are capable of ...
... Legends of The main themes of both these plays are derived from magic and magicians : that vast and infinitely interwoven body of legend which deals with magicians - men who have become possessed of powers and are capable of ...
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... legend clustered round some of the most popular names of Classical antiquity , such as Hippocrates the physician ... Legends of contracts with the Devil , in which Jews were frequently with the supposed to have acted as brokers ...
... legend clustered round some of the most popular names of Classical antiquity , such as Hippocrates the physician ... Legends of contracts with the Devil , in which Jews were frequently with the supposed to have acted as brokers ...
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... legends men were said to have obtained a full command over the objects of those passions which it was the task of the ... legend of Robert the Devil , the saving power of Grace is in both cases exercised by the Blessed Virgin . The ...
... legends men were said to have obtained a full command over the objects of those passions which it was the task of the ... legend of Robert the Devil , the saving power of Grace is in both cases exercised by the Blessed Virgin . The ...
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... legend also became one of the most widely spread of these legends ' , philus . and which no commentator on the Faust legend has failed to notice . Theophilus was a bishop's seneschal or vice- . dominus at Adana în Cilicia in the reign ...
... legend also became one of the most widely spread of these legends ' , philus . and which no commentator on the Faust legend has failed to notice . Theophilus was a bishop's seneschal or vice- . dominus at Adana în Cilicia in the reign ...
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Page cxlvii - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 42 - I'll leap up to my God!— Who pulls me down?— See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!— Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!
Page 41 - Though my heart pants and quivers to remember that I have been a student here these thirty years, O, would I had never seen Wittenberg, never read book ! And what wonders I have done, all Germany can witness, yea, all the world...
Page 209 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 1 - 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 8 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus! leave these frivolous demands. Which strike a terror to my fainting soul. Faust. What, is great Mephistophilis so passionate For being deprived of the joys of Heaven ? Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude, And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.
Page 2 - 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...
Page 42 - And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! 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 43 - O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
Page 3 - Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves* Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love...