Little Theater Classics, Volume 1Samuel Atkins Eliot, Samuel A. Eliot (Jr.) Little, Brown, 1918 - Drama |
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Achaians actor Agamemnon arms art thou audience BRIDGET child Chorus CLOWN curtains close cyclorama damn'd dear devil Doctor Faustus Doctor Rosy door drama DRAWER drink Enter Euripides EVIL ANGEL eyes face fore-stage forto gate grace Greek hand hast hath head Heaven Hekabê Helen hell Herod honest Humphrey ISAIAH John John Herron Joseph JUSTICE CREDULOUS Kasandra KING BALTHASAR KING JASPER KING MELCHIOR kneel LAURETTA left bridge light Little Theater look Lord Lucifer MADGE maid Mary Master Constable Master Doctor Mephistophilis mother never night Nuntius Odysseus Pause PEDRO play Polyxena pray Reënter RICARDO right bridge rising scene SECOND SCHOLAR SECOND SHEPHERD SHEPHERD SILVIO sirrah sits slowly soldiers soul speak speech stage stands Star steps sweet sword TALTHYBIOS tell thee thine thou art Trojan Women Troy TRULL turns UBERTO unto up-stage VALERIO VIOLA voice WAGNER wench words
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Page 114 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Page 160 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 160 - 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 168 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man...
Page 116 - I'll have them read me strange philosophy And tell the secrets of all foreign kings; I'll have them wall all Germany with brass, And make swift Rhine circle fair Wittenberg, I'll have them fill the public schools...
Page 130 - But, Faustus, thou must bequeath it solemnly, And write a deed of gift with thine own blood, For that security craves great Lucifer. If thou deny it, I will back to hell.
Page 127 - CLOWN. How! a Christian fellow to a dog or a cat, a mouse or a rat! No, no, sir. If you turn me into...
Page 155 - Old Man. Ah, Doctor Faustus, that I might prevail To guide thy steps unto the way of life, By which sweet path thou may'st attain the goal That shall conduct thee to celestial rest! Break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears, Tears falling from repentant heaviness Of thy most vile and loathsome filthiness...
Page 149 - Master Doctor Faustus, I have heard strange report of thy knowledge in the black art, how that none in my empire nor in the whole world can compare with thee for the rare effects of magic: they say thou hast a familiar spirit, by whom thou canst accomplish what thou list.
Page 167 - O, no end is limited to damned souls. Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or, why is this immortal that thou hast? Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast.