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" O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars... "
Doctor Faustus, by C. Marlowe. Lust's dominion. Mother Bombie; Midas, by ... - Page 80
by Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1814 - 578 pages
...on my plumed crest. . Yea, 1 will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in...Semele ; .. •. More lovely than the monarch of the iky, In wanton Arethusa's azure arms ; - - . Aed none but thou ihalt U my paramour 1" (P. 79. ) , (For...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1814 - 572 pages
...Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars I Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd...hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the tfyi In wanton Arethusa's azure anna ; And none but thou (halt be my paramour 1" (P. 79.) Oh ! thou...
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Doctor Faustus

Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 412 pages
...colours on my plumed crest: Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the 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...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...my plumed crest ; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. — Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, .Clad in...In wanton Arethusa's azure arms ; And none but thou shall be my paramour." The ending of the play is terrible, and his last exclamations betray an anguish...
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...as none but poets ever spoke. 'Twas thus he ended — Sweet Helen ! make me immortal with a kiss — Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the...stars. Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appeared to hapless Semelc : More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa'a azure arms,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 38

1823 - 616 pages
...Wittenburg be sacked, And I will combat with weak Menelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest. — Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in...flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele, ' In wanton Arethusa's azure arms, And none but thou shall be my paramour. '— < Following Marlow,...
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The Brides of Florence, a Play in Five Acts, Illustrative of the Nmanner of ...

Randolph Fitz-Eustace - 1824 - 338 pages
...passage from Mario w's tragedy of Faustus. The hero of the drama is addressing the vision of Helen : — Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in...than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Simele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky, In wanton Arethusa's azure arms, And none but thou...
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The Prima-Donna, a Tale of To-day [and Other Tales. By Richard Bechard.]

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...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 7; Volume 12

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...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...Wittenburg be sack'd, A ml I will combat with weak Meoelaus, And wear thy colours on my plumed crest. — Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air. Clad in...than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Seinele; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azure arms, And none but thou...
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