| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 362 pages
...over, some students burst into the room and give the moral of the tragedy in the following verses : 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. Eegard his hellish fall,... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...flies ! Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Ibid. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Ibid. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law... | |
| Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...in the course of the play — ' ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And buried is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within...fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits."... | |
| Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 394 pages
...in the course of the play — w "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And buried is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within...man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose nendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, Whose deepness doth entice... | |
| William Edward Armytage Axon - History - 1884 - 360 pages
...Christian civilisation into the dark places of the dark continent. JOSEPH MOWBRAY HAWCROFT. IN MEMORIAM. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough. MARLOWE. Faustus. IT is difficult at all times for the hand of friendship to hold the... | |
| John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...the spring' of English poetry, survive and fill our ears with music. They are not dead, although — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. LONDOK : J'RINIKI) Itv SPOTTISWOODE AND CO.,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...spring' of English poetry, survive and fill our ears with music. They are not dead, although — IAit is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. 1.0NI, IN : r::is i in uv 'TI'-U • 'Oin:... | |
| William Chatterton Coupland - 1885 - 410 pages
...o'clock thunder and lightning and devils appear and carry off the doomed man. Chorus. Cut is the brand that might have grown full straight, And burned is...at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. Marlowe is indebted for his main incidents... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 436 pages
...Chorus. 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...hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise i For "My God ! my God ! " ed. 1616 read* " O mercy, heaven I" 1 " So the Ephesiins ' burnt their books'... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 432 pages
...Chorus. 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...hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise 1 For " My God ! my God ! " ed. 1616 reads " O mercy, heaven ! " 1 " So the Ephesians ' burnt their... | |
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