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... never raged with greater fury Marlowe . than in Robert Greene . His relations with Christopher jealousy of Marlowe , who was , like him , University ( Cambridge ) bred , seem to have varied at different periods in his career . Their ...
... never raged with greater fury Marlowe . than in Robert Greene . His relations with Christopher jealousy of Marlowe , who was , like him , University ( Cambridge ) bred , seem to have varied at different periods in his career . Their ...
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... never tired of insist- ing , between the efforts of pagan sorcery and the miraculous agency of divine gifts . The magicians of the earlier Middle and in the early Ages were thus regarded as the conscious servants of the Middle Powers of ...
... never tired of insist- ing , between the efforts of pagan sorcery and the miraculous agency of divine gifts . The magicians of the earlier Middle and in the early Ages were thus regarded as the conscious servants of the Middle Powers of ...
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... never found their way to the pre - Reformation stage , this may be easily accounted for by the control which the Church so largely exercised over it . On the other hand , the age of miracles had long passed away in the consciousness of ...
... never found their way to the pre - Reformation stage , this may be easily accounted for by the control which the Church so largely exercised over it . On the other hand , the age of miracles had long passed away in the consciousness of ...
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... never be ; for certainly ( said I ) it is now far too late , the matter is cold and hath taken too much wind . ' It was certainly a maxim that Queen Elizabeth needed being reminded of on many occasions , which Bacon clothed in the form ...
... never be ; for certainly ( said I ) it is now far too late , the matter is cold and hath taken too much wind . ' It was certainly a maxim that Queen Elizabeth needed being reminded of on many occasions , which Bacon clothed in the form ...
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... never came to a head , as in Italy and Spain , or where , as in parts of the Empire , it was averted by a practical compromise , that the epidemic found little or no material to feed on1 . Warning voices were indeed not wanting to ...
... never came to a head , as in Italy and Spain , or where , as in parts of the Empire , it was averted by a practical compromise , that the epidemic found little or no material to feed on1 . Warning voices were indeed not wanting to ...
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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...