Christopher MarloweVizetelly, 1887 - 430 pages |
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Page viii
... Grace , and Repentance , the Devil and Death , without developing dialogue , marking character , and painting the incidents of real life . Thus the Morality led to the Interlude , which completed the disengagement of the drama from ...
... Grace , and Repentance , the Devil and Death , without developing dialogue , marking character , and painting the incidents of real life . Thus the Morality led to the Interlude , which completed the disengagement of the drama from ...
Page xxxiv
... grace , one wonder , at the least , Which into words no virtue can digest . " Tamburlaine is a divinely strong and eager- hearted poet , and these words are the key to his career . He sees for ever an unattainable loveliness beckoning ...
... grace , one wonder , at the least , Which into words no virtue can digest . " Tamburlaine is a divinely strong and eager- hearted poet , and these words are the key to his career . He sees for ever an unattainable loveliness beckoning ...
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... grace hath taken order by Theridamas , Charged with a thousand horse , to apprehend And bring him captive to your highness ' throne . Myc . Full true thou speak'st , and like thyself , my lord , Whom I may term a Damon for thy love ...
... grace hath taken order by Theridamas , Charged with a thousand horse , to apprehend And bring him captive to your highness ' throne . Myc . Full true thou speak'st , and like thyself , my lord , Whom I may term a Damon for thy love ...
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... grace betrothed ? Zeno . I am - my lord - for so you do import . Tamb . I am a lord , for so my deeds shall prove : And yet a shepherd by my parentage . But , lady , this fair face and heavenly hue Must grace his bed that conquers Asia ...
... grace betrothed ? Zeno . I am - my lord - for so you do import . Tamb . I am a lord , for so my deeds shall prove : And yet a shepherd by my parentage . But , lady , this fair face and heavenly hue Must grace his bed that conquers Asia ...
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... grace your calling with a greater sway . Orty . And as we ever aimed at your behoof , And sought your state all honour it deserved , So will we with our powers and our lives Endeavour to preserve and prosper it . Cos . I will not thank ...
... grace your calling with a greater sway . Orty . And as we ever aimed at your behoof , And sought your state all honour it deserved , So will we with our powers and our lives Endeavour to preserve and prosper it . Cos . I will not thank ...
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Abig Abigail ANIPPE arms Bajazeth Barabas bassoes blood brave Calymath Christians conquered crown Damascus death devil Doctor Faustus doth earth Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit fair Farewell father Faustus fear Fern FERNEZE Friar friends Gaveston give gold governor grace hath heart Heaven hell honour Isab Itha Ithamore J. A. SYMONDS Jew of Malta Jove Kent KING EDWARD King of Fez Knight Lancaster live Lodowick look lord Lucifer madam Mahomet majesty Malta Marlowe Marlowe's master Master Doctor Mathias Meph Mephistophilis mighty Natolia never Persia Persian Pilia pity princely queen Re-enter SCENE Schol Scythian sirrah slave soldiers soul speak Spen Spencer stay sweet sword Tamb Tamburlaine Tech Techelles tell thee Ther Theridamas thine thou art thou shalt thousand thyself traitor Turk unto Usum USUMCASANE villain words Zeno Zenocrate
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Page iv - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 228 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Page xxxiv - 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...
Page 35 - 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 227 - ... 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 ! 0 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 xxxii - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of war Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine Threatening the world with high astounding terms And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
Page xxxiv - 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, Which into words no virtue can...
Page 234 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 199 - Nor will I henceforth : pardon me in this, And Faustus vows never to look to heaven, Never to name God, or to pray to Him, To burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers, And make my spirits pull his churches down.
Page 223 - 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.