 | Harold F. Rubinstein - English drama - 1928 - 1138 pages
...those joys. MEPH. : Why, Faustus, Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing ? I tell thee, 'tis MOR. : Uncle, his wanton humour grieves not me ; But this I FAUST. : How prov'st thou that ? MEPH. : 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. FAUST.... | |
 | Harry Christian Schweikert - English drama - 1928 - 864 pages
...of those joys. Meph. Why, Faustus, Thinkest thou Heaven is such a glorious thing? 5 I tell thee 'tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. Faust. How provest thou that? Meph. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. Faust. If... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1998 - 550 pages
...those joys. MEPHISTOPHELES Twas thine own seeking, Faustus. Thank thyself. But think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is...so fair As thou or any man that breathes on earth. FAUSTUS How prov'st thou that? MEPHISTOPHELES Twas made for man; then he's more excellent. FAUSTUS... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 2000 - 564 pages
...those joys. MEPHISTO. 'Twas thine own seeking, Faustus; thank thyself. But, think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is...so fair As thou, or any man that breathes on earth. FAUSTUS How prov'st thou that? MEPHISTO. 'Twas made for man; then he's more excellent. FAUSTUS If heaven... | |
 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Fiction - 2001 - 160 pages
...did: Mephistophilis: Why, Faustus, Thinkest thou Heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. Faustus: How prov'st thou that? Mephistophilis: If it were made for man, therefore is man more excellent.... | |
 | Gisèle Venet - English drama - 2002 - 350 pages
...And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess». 50. II, III, 5-7 : «[...] think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing ? I tell thee, Faustus, it is...fair / As thou or any man that breathes on earth». De ce renversement des termes du dialogue naît la crise qui occupe la scène III de l'acte II, crise... | |
 | Joseph Francis Kelly - Philosophy - 2002 - 260 pages
...and regrets having lost heaven, Mephistopheles, fearing that he might repent, tells him that heaven is "not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth." Combining the themes of stupidity and the lie, Marlowe has Faustus believe the demon. More than anything... | |
 | Robert Bechtold Heilman, Eric Voegelin - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 352 pages
...heavens." M. replies with a seductive humanism: But think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? 1 tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou or any man that breathes on earth. 'Twas made for man; then he's more excellent, [in some edd., made into Act II, Scene ii] cf. also Sc.... | |
 | Robert Zaller - History - 2007 - 844 pages
...Mephistophilos, to forestall Faustus' repentance, reverses himself in the lines But think'st thou Heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou or any man that breathe on earth (2.2.5-7) we feel he twists the knife far more deeply in himself. Mephistophilos has... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 pages
...of those joys. Meph. Why, Faustus, Thinkest thou heaven is euch a glorieus thing ? I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou, Or any man that breathes on earth. Faust. How prov'st thou that • Meph. 'Twas made for man, therefore is man more excellent. Fatal.... | |
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When I behold the heavens, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistophilis, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys. 
