The Works of Christopher Marlowe Including His TranslationsChatto & Windus, 1889 - 376 pages |
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... hope of Persia , and the very legs Whereon our State doth lean as on a staff , That holds us up , and foils our neighbour foes : Thou shalt be leader of this thousand horse , Whose foaming gall with rage and high disdain Have sworn the ...
... hope of Persia , and the very legs Whereon our State doth lean as on a staff , That holds us up , and foils our neighbour foes : Thou shalt be leader of this thousand horse , Whose foaming gall with rage and high disdain Have sworn the ...
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... hope our ladies ' treasures and our own , May serve for ransom to our liberties : Return our mules and empty camels back , That we may travel into Syria , Where her betrothed lord Alcidamas , Expects th ' arrival of her highness ...
... hope our ladies ' treasures and our own , May serve for ransom to our liberties : Return our mules and empty camels back , That we may travel into Syria , Where her betrothed lord Alcidamas , Expects th ' arrival of her highness ...
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... hope ? Agyd . We hope yourself will willingly re- store them . Tamb . Such hope , such fortune , have the thousand horse . Soft ye , my lords , and sweet Zenocrate ! You must be forced from me ere you go . A thousand horsemen ! -We five ...
... hope ? Agyd . We hope yourself will willingly re- store them . Tamb . Such hope , such fortune , have the thousand horse . Soft ye , my lords , and sweet Zenocrate ! You must be forced from me ere you go . A thousand horsemen ! -We five ...
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... hope . What think'st thou , man , shall come of our attempts ? For even as from assured oracle , I take thy doom for satisfaction . Tamb . And so mistake you not a whit , my Lord ; For fates and oraclès [ of ] Heaven have + Tech . With ...
... hope . What think'st thou , man , shall come of our attempts ? For even as from assured oracle , I take thy doom for satisfaction . Tamb . And so mistake you not a whit , my Lord ; For fates and oraclès [ of ] Heaven have + Tech . With ...
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... hope we are resembled Vowing our loves to equal death and life . Let's cheer our soldiers to encounter him , That grievous image of ingratitude , That fiery thirster after sovereignty , And burn him in the fury of that flame , That none ...
... hope we are resembled Vowing our loves to equal death and life . Let's cheer our soldiers to encounter him , That grievous image of ingratitude , That fiery thirster after sovereignty , And burn him in the fury of that flame , That none ...
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Abig Abigail Æneas Anippe arms art thou Ascanius Bajazet Barabas blood Carthage crown cursed death devil Dido Doctor Faustus dost doth Duke of Guise Dyce earth ELEGIA Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair farewell father Faustus fear fire Friar friends Gaveston give gold grace Guise hand hate hath head heart heaven hell Hero Hero and Leander honour horse Iarbas Itha Ithamore Jove Kent king kiss Leander leave live look lord Lucifer madam maid majesty Malta Marlowe Master Doctor means Meph Mephistophilis mighty Mortimer ne'er never night Pilia pray princely Queen SCENE Scythian Sergestus sirrah soldiers soul speak stay sweet sword Tamb Tambur Tamburlaine Techelles tell thee Ther Theridamas thine thou art thou hast thou shalt thought thyself Turk unto Venus villain wench wilt word Zenocrate
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Page 272 - With coral clasps and amber studs : And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love.
Page 60 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will ? Ill 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 306 - 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!
Page 198 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stript, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win : And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect : The reason no man knows ; let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight ; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight ?' He kneel'd ; but unto her devoutly pray'd : Chaste Hero to herself thus softly...
Page 12 - Warring within our breasts for regiment. Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: 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 290 - Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile: 'Tis magic, magic, that hath ravish'd me.
Page 63 - I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great Emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men : I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown.
Page 88 - Give me the merchants of the Indian mines, That trade in metal of the purest mould; The wealthy Moor, that in the eastern rocks Without control can pick his "riches up, And in his house heap pearl like...
Page 296 - Have not I made blind Homer sing to me Of Alexander's love and CEnon's death? And hath not he, that built the walls of Thebes With ravishing sound of his melodious harp, Made* music with my Mephistophilis...
Page 272 - The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.