 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...awaits the stroke of the clock that signals his doom are powerfully drawn. " 0 lente, lente currite, noctis equi ! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. . . O soul, be changed into little water-drops, And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found ! " Marlowe's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pages
...hour he hut A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Fauslus may repent, and save his soul ! — The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. O, I'll leap up to God ! — Who pulls me down ? — See. vhoro Christ's blood streams in the firmament... | |
 | Puppet plays - 1887 - 284 pages
...odd that he should use the word " Romance;" if he does not, it is hard to say what he does mean. " The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned." It would be odd indeed if a ballad-monger, so destitute of poetical faculty as the author... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1888 - 820 pages
...a month, a week, a natural day, That Faastus may repent and save his soul ! O lente, lente cnrrite, noctis equi ! The stars move still, time runs, the...will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned." 1 It ia relative, not absolute eternity ; eternity a parte post, not a parte ante. The future... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1888 - 822 pages
...month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente, lente cnrrite, noctia equi ! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustns mast be damned." 1 It it relative, not absolute eternity ; eternity a parte post, not a parte... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi / The stars move still, time runs, the...will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament ! One drop would save my soul — half... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 328 pages
...month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente, lenle currite, noctii equi! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will...strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. O, I'll leap up to my God ! — Who pulls me down ? — See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - English literature - 1889 - 514 pages
...this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I '11 leap up to my God! Who pulls me down ? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in... | |
 | Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I will leap to heaven : who pulls me down * See where Christ's blood streams in...firmament : One drop of blood will save me : Oh, my Chriat ! Rend not my heart for naming of my Christ. Yet will I call on him. Oh, spare me, Lucifer !... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...(1.3.68-72) So too Marlowe's Faustus, in terror as he awaits the coming of Mephistopheles at midnight, says: the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. (5.2.141-2) And the Scholars tell us that: 'twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought I heard him... | |
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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... 
