The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Volume 1John C. Nimmo, 1885 |
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Page vii
... · PAGE ix 7 107 · . 207 PUBLISHER'S NOTICE . Four hundred copies of this ' Edition have been printed and the type distributed . No more will be published . Ed the INTRODUCTION . THE achievements of Shakespeare's greatest predecessor.
... · PAGE ix 7 107 · . 207 PUBLISHER'S NOTICE . Four hundred copies of this ' Edition have been printed and the type distributed . No more will be published . Ed the INTRODUCTION . THE achievements of Shakespeare's greatest predecessor.
Page xvi
... printed at the end of his New Letter of Notable Contents , 1593. From a passage in the Black Book , 1604 ( a tract attributed on no sure ground to Thomas Mid- dleton the dramatist ) , Malone inferred that Tamburlaine was written in ...
... printed at the end of his New Letter of Notable Contents , 1593. From a passage in the Black Book , 1604 ( a tract attributed on no sure ground to Thomas Mid- dleton the dramatist ) , Malone inferred that Tamburlaine was written in ...
Page xxv
... , though the inaccuracies are manifold ; in licentiousness , I am compelled to add , it is a match for the original . Its popularity was great , VOL . I. С and - printed in company with Sir John Davies ' Introduction . XXV.
... , though the inaccuracies are manifold ; in licentiousness , I am compelled to add , it is a match for the original . Its popularity was great , VOL . I. С and - printed in company with Sir John Davies ' Introduction . XXV.
Page xxvi
... printed at London.1 The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus was probably composed soon after Tamburlaine . In February 1588-9 a " ballad of the life and death of Doctor Faustus the great Cungerer " was entered in the Stationers ' Registers ...
... printed at London.1 The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus was probably composed soon after Tamburlaine . In February 1588-9 a " ballad of the life and death of Doctor Faustus the great Cungerer " was entered in the Stationers ' Registers ...
Page xxx
... printed in ed . 1616. But the editors are agreed that the additions found in ed . 1616 are in no instance to be ascribed to Marlowe . My own opinion is , that the new comic scenes and the bulk of the additional matter are certainly not ...
... printed in ed . 1616. But the editors are agreed that the additions found in ed . 1616 are in no instance to be ascribed to Marlowe . My own opinion is , that the new comic scenes and the bulk of the additional matter are certainly not ...
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Page 282 - Pythagoras' metempsychosis ! were that true, This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast ! all beasts are happy, For, when they die, Their souls are soon dissolved in elements ; But mine must live, still to be plagued in hell. Curst be the parents that engendered me ! No, Faustus : curse thyself : curse Lucifer That hath deprived thee of the joys of Heaven.
Page 91 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least,...
Page 45 - 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 41 - And ride in triumph through Persepolis!" Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave to be a king, "And ride in triumph through Persepolis?
Page 216 - 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 lx - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Page 213 - Having commenc'd, be a divine in show, Yet level at the end of every art, And live and die in Aristotle's works. Sweet analytics, 'tis thou hast ravish'd me.
Page 247 - Sloth. I am Sloth. I was begotten on a sunny bank, where I have lain ever since; and you have done me great injury to bring me from thence: let me be carried thither again by Gluttony and Lechery. I'll not speak another word for a king's ransom.
Page 275 - His faith is great: I cannot touch his soul; But what I may afflict his body with I will attempt, which is but little worth.
Page 282 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man...