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" That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. "
The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine - Page 393
1817
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 1

1817 - 708 pages
...exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, — Whose decpnesse doth entice such forward witsTo practise more than heavenly power permits." We have...disproportioned. The commencement and the conclusion are solemn, lofty — even magnificent — but the middle part is out of all keeping ; and the ludicrous...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1835 - 802 pages
...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [The growing horrors of Fanstus are awfully marked by the hours and half hours as they expire and bring...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1844 - 330 pages
...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [The growing horrors of Faustus are awfully marked by the hours and half hours as they expire and bring...
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The Secret Passion, Volume 1

Robert Folkestone Williams - 1844 - 936 pages
...fall, Whose firmlful fortune may exalt the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. It was on a morning of matchless beauty — the sky being all around of a clear,...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare ...

Charles Lamb - English drama - 1845 - 492 pages
...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [The growing horrors of Faustus are awfully marked by the hours and half hours as they expire and bring...
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Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...fall, Whoso fiendful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things: Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits, To practise more than heavenly power permits." The first two lines of this passage are used by Mr. Home, in the conclusion of his fine dramatic sketch,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. The classical taste of Marlow is evinced in the fine apostrophe to Helen of Greece, whom the spirit...
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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
...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. Terminal hora diem ; terminal auctor opus. THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS. The Tragicall History...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...fall, Whose fiendfull fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. P eel e. Ueber das Leben dieses Mannes ist weiter Nichts bekannt, als dass er, ein Vorgiinger Shakspeare's,...
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Englische Dichter: Eine Auswahl englischer Dichtungen mit deutscher Uebersetzung

English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...fall , Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. ROBERT SOUTHWELL.* Born 1560. f 1*95. Love'a Servile Lot. Love , mistresse is of many minds , Yet few...
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