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" That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. "
The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Preface. Introduction. 1st pt. of ... - Page 289
by Christopher Marlowe - 1885
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...wait upon his heavy funeral." So the Chorus : " Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." And still more affecting are his own conflicts of mind and agonizing doubts on this subject just before,...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...wait upon his heavy funeral." So the Chorus : " Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." And still more affecting are his own. conflicts of mind and agonizing doubts on this subject just before,...
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The works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson].

Christopher Marlowe - 1826 - 348 pages
...mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. Cut is the branch that miqht have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel...learned man : Faustus is gone: regard his hellish 1'all, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things; Whose deepness...
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Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similar image : — ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apolloes laurel bough.' And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon 9, [She faints....
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 23, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustns with a similar image : — ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apolloes laurel bough.' And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon9. [She faints....
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1835 - 802 pages
...black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full strait, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus is gone 1 Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...Is, their »tender«! or rallying point in thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similar ; And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd, The air will dri Apollnes laurel bough.' 9 « From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys...
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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...in the morning, and gather up his mangled limbs, the play concluding with a few lines, spoken by a 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 is gone; regard his hellish fall,...
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Punch, Volumes 66-67

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1874 - 580 pages
...for him the Essence of our Collective Wisdom — TOI« 1XYI. 108 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough ! " But " «mo avaho, non deficit alter," and even if the metal be less finely •wrought, he hopes...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...bewailed in verses of great elegance and classical beauty. " Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. CC 2 Faustus is gone ! — regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful torture may exhort the wise, Only...
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