 | Arthur Wilson Verity - 1886 - 116 pages
...scornfully turned aside from the path trodden by previous dramatists, and boldly struck out a new course. What glory is there in a common good That hangs for every peasant to achieve? is the spoken thought of the Duke of Guise, and it is no less the soliloquy of the poet. He blindly... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...never-dying flames. Which cannot be extinguished but bj blood. Oft have I levelled, and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness And resolution,...peasant to achieve ? That like I best, that flies beyond m reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set the diadem of France ; I'll either rend... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...levelled, and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honours' fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good,...my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And therein set the diadem of France ; I'll either rend it with my nails to naught, Or mount the top with... | |
 | William Boyd Carpenter - English poetry - 1900 - 282 pages
...recognises that through danger lies the road to success. Oft have I levelled and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution, honour's fairest aim. " The Massacre at Paris," Act i. sc. 2. Parallel are the lines in " Tamburlaine." Nature that framed... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...framed for this great schemer, breathes these words : Oft have I levelled, and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution...achieve ? That like I best, that flies beyond my reach. The central passion which inspires Marlowe and all the characters of Marlowe's coinage finds utterance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 220 pages
...scarecrow. 45. nails . . . stones] Compare Richard II. vv 18, 19. Marlowe has the same figure : — " Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set the diadem of France : I '11 either rend it with my nails to naught Or mount the top " (Massacre at Paris, Dyce, 1859, p.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 220 pages
...scarecrow. 45. nails . . . stones] Compare Richard II. vv 18, 19. Marlowe has the same figure : — " Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set the diadem of France : I '11 either rend it with my nails to naught Or mount the top " (Massacre at Paris, Dyce, 1859, p.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Historical drama, English - 1909 - 220 pages
...scarecrow. 45. nails . . . stones] Compare Richard II. vv 18, 19. Marlowe has the same figure : — " Set me to scale the high Pyramides, And thereon set the diadem of France : I '11 either rend it with my nails to naught Or mount the top " (Massacre at Paris, Dyce, 1859, p.... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1913 - 596 pages
...framed for this great schemer, breathes these words : Oft have I levelled, and at last have learned That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honour's fairest aim. \Yhat glory is there in a common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve ? That like I best,... | |
 | Clarence Valentine Boyer - Literary Criticism - 1914 - 294 pages
...levelled, and at last have learn'd That peril is the chiefcst way to happiness, And resolution honor's fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good,...achieve ? That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Let me to scale the high pyramids, And thereon set the diadem of France ; I'll cither rend it with... | |
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That peril is the chiefest way to happiness, And resolution honour's fairest aim. What glory is there in a common good, That hangs for every peasant to achieve? That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high Pyramides... 
