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,... Christopher Marlowe - Page 228by Christopher Marlowe - 1887 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait. And And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime...« Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits.* * The growing horrors of Faustus'are awfully marked by... | |
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...the students, clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,...; Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits, To practice more than heavenly power permits. Terminal hora diem, terminal Author opus. LUST'S DOMINION;... | |
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...enters, and the drama concludes with the following fine lines. " Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,...is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, — Whose decpnesse doth entice such... | |
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...enters, and the drama concludes with the following fine lines. " Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough...man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall. Whose ficndful torture may exhort the wue. Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, — Whose dcepnesse doth entice... | |
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...wait upon his heavy funeral." So the Chorus : " Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." And still more affecting are his own. conflicts of mind and agonizing doubts on this subject just before,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...wait upon his heavy funeral." So the Chorus : " Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." And still more affecting are his own conflicts of mind and agonizing doubts on this subject just before,... | |
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...mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. Cut is the branch that miqht have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel...learned man : Faustus is gone: regard his hellish 1'all, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things; Whose deepness... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - Dramatists, English - 1826 - 1070 pages
...Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. Cut is the branch that might havegrownfull straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That...this learned man: Faustus is gone: regard his hellish tall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things; Whose deepness... | |
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...standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similar image : — ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apolloes laurel bough.' And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon 9, [She faints.... | |
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