The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Volume 1John C. Nimmo, 1885 |
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... sweet fruition of an earthly crown . " ( ii . 7 ) . The ear exults in the sonorous march of the stately verse as each successive line paces more majestically than the preceding ; but what cruel discomfiture awaits us at the end ! It ...
... sweet fruition of an earthly crown . " ( ii . 7 ) . The ear exults in the sonorous march of the stately verse as each successive line paces more majestically than the preceding ; but what cruel discomfiture awaits us at the end ! It ...
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... sweet - according rimes . But Marlo , still - admired Marlo's gon To liue with beautie in Elyzium ; Immortal beautie , who desires to heare His sacred poesies , sweete in euery eare : Marlo must frame to Orpheus ' melodie Himnes all ...
... sweet - according rimes . But Marlo , still - admired Marlo's gon To liue with beautie in Elyzium ; Immortal beautie , who desires to heare His sacred poesies , sweete in euery eare : Marlo must frame to Orpheus ' melodie Himnes all ...
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... sweet Kate , how I be clad ; Thou shalt have garments wrought of Median silk Enchased with precious jewels fetched from far By Italian merchants that with Russian stems Plough up huge furrows in the Terrene main . " This passage is ...
... sweet Kate , how I be clad ; Thou shalt have garments wrought of Median silk Enchased with precious jewels fetched from far By Italian merchants that with Russian stems Plough up huge furrows in the Terrene main . " This passage is ...
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... Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge . " But however closely we may look for them , we shall find very few Shakespearean passages . Of Marlowe's earliest style we are constantly and inevitably reminded . That Marlowe had a share in all ...
... Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge . " But however closely we may look for them , we shall find very few Shakespearean passages . Of Marlowe's earliest style we are constantly and inevitably reminded . That Marlowe had a share in all ...
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... sweet friends and fol- lowers ! These Lords , perhaps do scorn our estimates , And think we prattle with distempered spirits ; But since they measure our deserts so mean , That in conceit bear empires on our spears , Affecting thoughts ...
... sweet friends and fol- lowers ! These Lords , perhaps do scorn our estimates , And think we prattle with distempered spirits ; But since they measure our deserts so mean , That in conceit bear empires on our spears , Affecting thoughts ...
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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...