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" Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. "
The Retrospective Review - Page 168
1821
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...gratify the sensual gaze of Faustus: — W«e this the face that launch 'da thousand ships Anil burn M r P 2 +$jQ V& _t 7 Ś & O ` Q $ j > > ki*< ! Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flies. Conic, Helen, come give me my soul again...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...t\co Cupids. Faushis. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where it flics. , Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heav'n is in these lips,...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...the address to the Apparition of Helen. Enter HELEN again, passing over between two Cupids. Faustus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium 7 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey, Volume 2

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...these rapturous lines — " Was this the face that launcht a thousand ships, And burn'd the toplesse towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen ! make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips sucke forth my soule ! — see where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soule againe ! Here vrill...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals and His Life, Volume 11

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...appearance, in these rapturous lines — * Was this the face that launcht a thousand ships, And burn'd the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen ! make me immortal with a kiss, Her lips suck forth my soule! — see where it flies. Come, Helen, come give me my soule againe, Here will I dwell, for heaven...
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Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...and Helen appears between two Cupids. Faust breaks out into the following impassioned address:— " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium 1 Sweet Helen ! make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul! see where it flies ; Come...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Faustus:— Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn M the topless towers of Ilium Î Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flics. Come, Helen, come give me my soul again ; Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Notes and Some Account of ..., Volume 2

Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 460 pages
...the later 4tos.— 2lo 1604 " These." t Faustus, this] Qy. " This, Faustus " t Re-enter HELEN. FAUST. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless f towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — [Kisses her. Her lips suck J...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...thousand ships And Ituni'd the topless towers of Ilium I Sweet Helen, make; me immortal with a kiss I hen prevalent and fatal [Against Pleasure — on Otfc.] conic give me my noul again ; Here will I dwell, fur heaven is in these lip*, And nil is dross that...
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Essays and Tales in Prose: The story of the back-room window. A chapter of ...

Barry Cornwall - English literature - 1853 - 300 pages
...is in search of a mistress. He is smitten at once by her excelling beauty, and thus he speaks: — ' Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...immortal with a -kiss — Her lips suck forth my soul. . . . Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. I will be...
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