...planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the resdess spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (H, vii, 18-29) These are the words with which Tamburlaine eventually consents to become king of Persia....

...irony, of course, is that Marlowe has Tamburlaine conceive of triumph as the cessation of movement: and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (2. But in articulating the expansiveness of his "aspiring mind," which seeks "knowledge infinite"...

...ride in triumph through Persepolis?" (2.5.53—54). And it is "our souls," he argues, which bid us "never rest / Until we reach the ripest fruit of all,...felicity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly crown" (2.7.21, 26-29). The soul pursued this course in the mistaken though happy belief that the unbridled...

...planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (1.2.7.18-29)39 Like Lear, Gillies observes, Tamburlaine is "a cartographized extension of the human...

...planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (2.7.18-29) For the space of this play, all of the moral rules inculcated in schools and churches,...

...planet's course. Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach...and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.13 In this speech, well-known to every Marlovian student and scholar, Tamburlaine aligns his...

...Shakespeare's appropriation and containment of Marlowe's poetics, showing how Tamburlaine's evocation of 'That perfect bliss and sole felicity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly crown' (2.7.28-9), informs Richard of Gloucester's rapture: 'How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, / Within...

...planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless Spheres, Will us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown." -Christopher Marlowe Last night on the news, I watched a reporter announce with excitement that scientists...

...One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest. * ft .Ml " the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole...felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. JB.1 ' ' Ah! Faustus Now has thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually:...

...planet's course. Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach...felicity. The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (1 Tamburlaine, 11, vii, 21-29) This passage celebrates the romance of power with a joyous elan', that...