The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes, by the Rev. Alexander DyceRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865 - 407 pages |
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Page xxxvii
... night , was also by Gager ; see Wood's Ath . Oxon . ii . 87 , ed . Bliss . Of Gager's plays two only , I believe , have been printed , - Ulysses Redux , 1591 , and Meleager , 1592. Meres mentions " Doctor Gager of Oxforde , " as one of ...
... night , was also by Gager ; see Wood's Ath . Oxon . ii . 87 , ed . Bliss . Of Gager's plays two only , I believe , have been printed , - Ulysses Redux , 1591 , and Meleager , 1592. Meres mentions " Doctor Gager of Oxforde , " as one of ...
Page xlii
... night To meditate vpon his goulden lynes , His rare conceyts , and sweete - according rimes . But Marlo , still - admired Marlo's gon To liue with beautie in Elyzium ; Immortall beautie , who desires to heare His sacred poesies , sweete ...
... night To meditate vpon his goulden lynes , His rare conceyts , and sweete - according rimes . But Marlo , still - admired Marlo's gon To liue with beautie in Elyzium ; Immortall beautie , who desires to heare His sacred poesies , sweete ...
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... night . Mess . Pleaseth your mightiness to understand , His resolution far exceedeth all . The first day when he pitcheth down his tents , White is their hue , and on his silver crest A snowy feather spangled - white he bears , ' To ...
... night . Mess . Pleaseth your mightiness to understand , His resolution far exceedeth all . The first day when he pitcheth down his tents , White is their hue , and on his silver crest A snowy feather spangled - white he bears , ' To ...
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... night , The moon , the planets , and the meteors , light ; There angels in their crystal armours fight * A doubtful battle with my tempted thoughts For Egypt's freedom and the Soldan's life , His life that so consumes Zenocrate ; Whose ...
... night , The moon , the planets , and the meteors , light ; There angels in their crystal armours fight * A doubtful battle with my tempted thoughts For Egypt's freedom and the Soldan's life , His life that so consumes Zenocrate ; Whose ...
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... night , And shut the windows of the lightsome heavens ! Let ugly Darkness with her rusty coach , Engirt with tempests , wrapt in pitchy clouds , Smother the earth with never - fading mists , And let her horses from their nostrils ...
... night , And shut the windows of the lightsome heavens ! Let ugly Darkness with her rusty coach , Engirt with tempests , wrapt in pitchy clouds , Smother the earth with never - fading mists , And let her horses from their nostrils ...
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Page 134 - Stand still, you ever-moving 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!
Page 20 - 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 381 - 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.
Page 35 - 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 digest...
Page 111 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss ? O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul ! Faust.
Page 146 - 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 99 - 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.
Page 110 - I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.
Page 101 - ... 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 ! O 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 193 - I have not seen a dapper Jack so brisk; He wears a short Italian hooded cloak, Larded with pearl, and, in his Tuscan cap, A jewel of more value than the crown.