...drank it anyway, out of perversity, thinking vaguely about sun cream and enlarging Wycherly's wardrobe. "Is it not passing brave to be a king, and ride in triumph through Persepolis. " A half-remembered quote from his college days floated through Wycherly's head. He felt an odd, uncomfortable...

...of the crown as the object of aspiration are chief concerns of Tamburlaine; he says such things as : 'Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' (2. 5. 53) and 'That perfect bliss and sole felicity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.' (2....

...of the crown as the object of aspiration are chief concerns of Tamburlaine; he says such things as : 'Is it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' (2. 5. 53) and 'That perfect bliss and sole felicity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.' (2....

...the erown as the objeet of aspiration are ehief eoneerns of Tamburlaine; he says sueh things as : '1s it not passing brave to be a king, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' (2. 5. 53) and That perfeet bliss and sole felieity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly erown.' (2....

...men say? Night is with child! What will she bring to birth? HAFIZ, FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIAN POET Is it not passing brave to be a King, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? TAMBURLAINE, CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ./Vf ,MIR MAHALLATI has an air of elegance about him. He always stands...

...the occasion of their official visits, as the next chapter will reveal. Provincial Pomps and Triumphs 'Is it not passing brave to be a King, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlainc /, Act II, sc. v Very few English kings, and no queens, were ever...

...discussion in Tamburlaine, part I, on whether or not to become kings, beginning with the famous lines, "Is it not passing brave to be a King / And ride in triumph through PersepolisT (758-59). Theridimas, when asked if he wants to be a king, can say "though I praise it,...

...imaginatively charged. Shakespeare does not pursue a fine name for its own sake as does Marlowe in Tamburlaine: 'And ride in triumph through Persepolis'! Is it not...be a king 'And ride in triumph through Persepolis'? (l Tamburlaine^ ii. v. 50) 1 Except where explicitly stated I follow the spelling of the Oxford Shakespeare,...

...followers, most unfortunately, says to his master. Tamburlaine overhears him and the results are fatal: And ride in triumph through Persepolis! Is it not...be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? (n, v, 50-4) Words, the emotional force of a chance phrase, generate a real and consequential political...

...for the war; Pistol quotes, in another interesting interpolation, lines from Marlowe's Tamburlainc. Is it not passing brave to be a king And ride in triumph through Persepolis? The theatrical metaphors are very obvious here, and very much in the spirit of Shakespeare's play....