Tamburlaine the Great: Doctor Faustus |
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Africa Agydas Almeda ANIPPE Argier arms Asia Bajazeth Bithynia blood Callapine Casane chariot Christians CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Clown conquering Cosroe crown cursed Damascus damn'd death Devil divine Zenocrate Doctor Faustus doth Early edd earth Emperor Enter Exeunt Exit fair Zenocrate father Faustus fear friends fury gold hath heart Heaven hell holy honour Horse-C host Jove king King of Fez King of Persia live looks lord Lucifer madam Mahomet majesty martial Master Doctor Menaphon Meph Mephistophilis Natolia never ORCANES ORTYGIUS Persia pity princely Ralph Re-enter Robin royal SCENE Schol scourge Scythian Sigismund sirrah slave Soldan soldiers soul spirits sweet sword Tamb Tamburlaine Tech Techelles tell thee Ther Theridamas thou art thou shalt thou wilt thousand horse thyself TREBIZOND Turk Turkish unto Usum USUMCASANE victory villain walls wound wrath ZABINA Zeno Zenocrate
Popular passages
Page 222 - O thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 225 - ... of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!
Page 225 - See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!
Page 225 - And then thou must be damn'd perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Page 222 - 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 74 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness. Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Page 23 - Of stature tall, and straightly fashioned, Like his desire, lift upwards and divine; So large of limbs, his joints so strongly knit, Such breadth of shoulders as might mainly bear Old Atlas
Page 221 - Accursed Faustus, where is mercy now? I do repent; and yet I do despair; Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast : What shall I do to shun the snares of death? MEPH. Thou traitor, Faustus, I arrest thy soul For disobedience to my sovereign lord; Revolt, or I'll in piecemeal tear thy flesh.
Page 176 - 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, try thy brains to gain a deity.
Page 188 - Abjure this magic, turn to God again ! " Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. To God? he loves thee not; The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite, Wherein is...