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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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Latest literary essays and addresses. 1892. [v. 12] The old English ...

James Russell Lowell - 1892 - 350 pages
...lift upward and divine." " For every street like to a firmament Glistered with breathing stars." " Unwedded maids Shadowing more beauty in their airy...Than have the white breasts of the queen of Love." This from " Tamburlaine " is particularly characteristic : — " Nature Doth teach us all to have aspiring...
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The Works of James Russell Lowell, Volume 11

James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1892 - 380 pages
...lift upward and divine." " For every street like to a firmament Glistered with breathing stars." " Unwedded maids Shadowing more beauty in their airy...Than have the white breasts of the queen of Love." This from " Tairiburlaine " is particularly characteristic : — " Nature Doth teach us all to have...
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The Old English Dramatists, Volume 10

James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1892 - 156 pages
...lift upward and divine." " For every street like to a firmament Glistered with breathing stars." " Unwedded maids Shadowing more beauty in their airy...Than have the white breasts of the queen of Love." This from " Tamburlaine " is particularly characteristic : — " Nature Doth teach us all to have aspiring...
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In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays

John Addington Symonds - 1893 - 1893 - 338 pages
...The serious part of Faustus is a sustained lyric. The philosopher in his study evokes the image of Women, or unwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love, He cries to the fiend who buys and sells him : Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them...
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The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - 1895 - 372 pages
...half I wish'd to be again of men." * It was entire in 1687, — the most elevated spot in Athens. 9 Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows. Than have the white breasts of the Queen of Love. — MARLOWE. " My Angelo ! and why of them to be ? A brighter dwelling-place is here for thee ; And...
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Thomas Carlyles Abhandlung über Goethes Faust aus dem Jahre 1821: ein ...

Richard Schröder - 1896 - 44 pages
...always serviceable to us three: Like lions shall they guard us when we please, Like Almain Ritters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants trotting...Than have the white breasts of the Queen of love. It is less the uncertainty of human knowledge, than the limited emoluments of a Wittenberg Professorship,...
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1897 - 152 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 argosies, 131 And from America the golden fleece That yearly stuffs old Philip's...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1, Part 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1897 - 268 pages
...Edward the Second, last scene, p. 288. Like lions shall they guard us when we please ; Like Almain rutters with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants,...trotting by our sides ; Sometimes like women, or unwedded maida, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love."...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1900 - 466 pages
...Rhine circle fair Wertenberg. . . . Like lions shall they guard us when we please; Like Almain ruttcrs with their horsemen's staves, Or Lapland giants, trotting...Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." 2 i What brilliant dreams, what desires, what vast or voluptuous wishes, worthy of a Roman Caesar or...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama

John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1900 - 580 pages
...desire with the hand of a poet-painter rather than a sensualist : Sometimes like women, or nnwedded maids, Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love. Yet it was in no Platonic mood that he set those mighty sails of his imagination to the breeze upon...
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