 | 1814 - 572 pages
...Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest. Yea, 1 will wound Achilles in the heel, And shen return to Helen for a kiss. Oh! thou art fairer than the evening air .... . .« " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 412 pages
...Instead of .Troy shall Wittenberg be sack'd ; And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest: Yea, I will wound Achilles in...evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars 5 Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | Richard Becke - 1828 - 348 pages
...virtues is disregarded—" She goes from the earth, and is heard of no more." c 2 THE PRIMA DONNA. " Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air. Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." MARLOWE. THE PRIMA DONNA. CHAPTER I. THE COMBAT. THERE is perhaps no feeling which has been oftener... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 564 pages
...crest ; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. — Oh ! thon art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stare : Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele; More lovely than... | |
 | United States - 1841 - 666 pages
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 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Europe - 1839 - 238 pages
...Flemming to gaze at her beautiful face ; often repeating to himself those lines in Marlow's Faust ; " O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! " He certainly would have betrayed himself to the maternal eye of Mrs. Ashburton, had she not been... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...flowers to set forth more fully to my enamoured fancy the loveliness of her, who, to me, was — " fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.* I will not offend the reader by any repetition of the extravagance I * Marlowe accused her of trifling... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...again. Here will I dwell, for Heaven ¡я in those lips And all is dross that is not Helena." ****** * " Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand start» ; Brighter art thou thnn llaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely... | |
 | United States - 1841 - 640 pages
...claims as an actress ; and in appearance she is not the fac-simile of the damsel who was " Lovelier than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." We have derived, however, so much pleasure from her performances, that we confess that we feel some... | |
 | India - 1966 - 394 pages
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Helen for a kiss. —Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars... 
