Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by John Lyly

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Whittingham and Rowland, 1814 - English drama

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Page 80 - 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.
Page 87 - It strikes, it strikes ; now, body, turn to air, Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to Hell.
Page 86 - Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ, Yet will I call on him: O spare me, Lucifer!
Page 32 - tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth.
Page 52 - How ! bell, book, and candle, — candle, book, and bell, — Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell...
Page 16 - Corn. The miracles that magic will perform Will make thee vow to study nothing else* He that is grounded in astrology, Enrich'd with tongues, well seen in minerals, Hath all the principles magic doth require: Then doubt not, Faustus, but to be renowm'd, And more frequented for this mystery Than heretofore the Delphian oracle.
Page 36 - What art thou — the first? PRIDE. I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea: I can creep into every corner of a wench...
Page 83 - Tempt not God, sweet friend; but let us into the next room, and there pray for him. Faust. Ay, pray for me, pray for me; and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.
Page 15 - Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad : I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, And chase the Prince of Parma from our land; And reign sole king of all the provinces : Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war, Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp bridge, I'll make my servile spirits to invent.
Page 22 - So he will spare him four and twenty years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me; To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will.

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