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" Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves Or Lapland giants, trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love... "
The works of Christopher Marlowe [ed. by G. Robinson]. - Page 124
by Christopher Marlowe - 1826
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The Living Age, Volume 107

1870 - 846 pages
...ivory pen." We find it again in the visions of Faustus and his familiars : " Like women, or unwed Jed maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen : " 0, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...us three. Like Lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain Rutters with their horseman's staves, Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides :...their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the dueen of Love. From Venice they shall drag whole argosies, And from America the golden fleece, That...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 232 pages
...us three. Like Lions shall they guard us when we please; Like Almain Rutters with their horseman's staves, Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides: Sometimes...their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the dueen of Love. From Venice they shall drag whole argosies, And from America the golden fleece, That...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 492 pages
...Element Be always serviceable to us three : Like Lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain Rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland Giants...our sides : Sometimes like Women, or unwedded Maids, PART i. 4 Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love....
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - Drama - 1845 - 540 pages
...Element Be always serviceable to us three : Like Lions shall they guard us when we please; Like Almain Rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland Giants...our sides: Sometimes like Women, or unwedded Maids, PART i. 4 '(Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love....
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 500 pages
...lust of power," " his hunger and thirst after unrighteousness," his passionate pictures of maidens, " shadowing more beauty in their airy brows than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," and one of whom " Apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower Ait 'burning throne ;" Ben Jonson,...
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Sketches of Modern Literature, and Eminent Literary Men ...

George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...lust of power," " his hunger and thirst after unrighteousness," his passionate pictures of maidens, " shadowing more beauty in their airy brows than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love," and one of whom " Apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne ;" Ben Jonson,...
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Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...staves, Or Lapland giants trotting by our sides; " occasionally, too, in more attractive shapes, " Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing...Than have the white breasts of the queen of Love." They agree to dine together and have a further consultation, and the scene closes. After a short scene...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1849 - 238 pages
...guard us when we please; Like Almain flutters with their horseman's staves, Or Lapland giants trolling by our sides: Sometimes like women, or unwedded maids,...their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the dueen of Love. From Venice they shall drag whole argosies, And from America the golden fleece, That...
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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
...element Be always serviceable to us three ; Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants,...the white breasts of the queen of love : From Venice shall they$ drag huge IT argosies, And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs** old Philip's...
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