Doctor FaustusRodwell and Martin, 1816 - English drama |
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... pray'd and sacrific'd to them . Within this circle is Jehovah's name , Forward , and backward , anagramatis'd ; The abreviated names of holy saints ; Figures of every adjunct to the heav'ns , And characters of signs , and erring * stars ...
... pray'd and sacrific'd to them . Within this circle is Jehovah's name , Forward , and backward , anagramatis'd ; The abreviated names of holy saints ; Figures of every adjunct to the heav'ns , And characters of signs , and erring * stars ...
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... pray devoutly to the Prince of Hell . Faust . So Faustus hath already done , and holds this principle , There is no chief but only Belzebub ; To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself . This word damnation terrifies not me , For I confound ...
... pray devoutly to the Prince of Hell . Faust . So Faustus hath already done , and holds this principle , There is no chief but only Belzebub ; To whom Faustus doth dedicate himself . This word damnation terrifies not me , For I confound ...
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... prayer , repentance , what of these * ? Good Ang . Oh , they are means to bring thee unto heaven ! Bad Ang . Rather illusions , fruits of lunacy , That make men foolish that do use them most . Good Ang . Sweet Faustus , think of heaven ...
... prayer , repentance , what of these * ? Good Ang . Oh , they are means to bring thee unto heaven ! Bad Ang . Rather illusions , fruits of lunacy , That make men foolish that do use them most . Good Ang . Sweet Faustus , think of heaven ...
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... pray fall to : I am beholden To the Bishop of Millaine for this so rare a present . Faust . I thank you , sir . Pope . How now ! Who snatch'd the meat from me ? Villains ! why speak you not ? [ dish , My good Lord Archbishop , here's a ...
... pray fall to : I am beholden To the Bishop of Millaine for this so rare a present . Faust . I thank you , sir . Pope . How now ! Who snatch'd the meat from me ? Villains ! why speak you not ? [ dish , My good Lord Archbishop , here's a ...
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... pray where's the cup you stole from the tavern ? Rob . How , how ! we steal a cup ! take heed what you say ; we look not like cup - stealers , I can tell you . Vint . Never deny ' t , for I know you have it , and I'll search you . Rob ...
... pray where's the cup you stole from the tavern ? Rob . How , how ! we steal a cup ! take heed what you say ; we look not like cup - stealers , I can tell you . Vint . Never deny ' t , for I know you have it , and I'll search you . Rob ...
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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 Eristus 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 343 - 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 30 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place ; for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be...
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 83 - Oft have I thought to have done so: but the Devil threatened to tear me in pieces if I named God; to fetch...
Page 16 - ... like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love: From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs old Philip's treasury; If learned Faustus will be resolute. Faust. Valdes, as resolute am I in this As thou to live : therefore object it not.
Page 87 - O, 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 80 - And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss.
Page 11 - Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds, Intends our Muse to vaunt his heavenly verse: Only this, gentles, — we must now perform The form of Faustus
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! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.
Page 41 - From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines...