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" Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, 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,... "
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare - Page 40
by Charles Lamb - 1813 - 484 pages
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Tragedy of Doctor Faustus with Introduction and Notes

Christopher Marlowe - 1877 - 186 pages
...20 Chor. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus...things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [Exit. Terminal hora diem ; terminat author opus. CRITICAL...
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...upon his heavy funeral."•} So the chorus : " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man."t • Works, ed. Dyce, ii. 79-82. t Rid. p. 156. It is to be remarked that the passage when these...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...That sometimes grew within this learned man: Faustns is gone ! Regard his hellish fall, Whose flenaful fortune may exhort, the wise Only to wonder at unlawful...; Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. The classical taste of Marlowe is evinced in the fine apostrophe...
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Goethe's Faust, with notes by A.M. Selss

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 362 pages
...moral of the tragedy in the following verses : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,' That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. Eegard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things,...
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Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the ...

Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...— ' ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And buried is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus...fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits."...
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Chapters in the History of English Literature: From 1509 to the Close of the ...

Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 394 pages
...— w "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And buried is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose nendful fortune may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, Whose deepness doth entice...
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Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama

John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 706 pages
...with music. They are not dead, although — IAit is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. 1.0NI, IN : r::is i in uv 'TI'-U • 'Oin: AND CO., N1 \V s 1 HKRT SQl'AKF AN.'' 1'AM.MMrNr STXI1KT...
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Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Volume 4

John Addington Symonds - English drama - 1884 - 696 pages
...with music. They are not dead, although — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. LONDOK : J'RINIKI) Itv SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STKKliT SQUARE ANn I'AKLIAHENT STKKBT ...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: Preface. Introduction. 1st pt. of ...

Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 436 pages
...Devils with FAUSTUS." Enter CHORUS. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime...hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise i For "My God ! my God ! " ed. 1616 read* " O mercy, heaven I" 1 " So the Ephesiins ' burnt their books'...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Volume 1

Christopher Marlowe - 1885 - 432 pages
...Devils with FAUSTUS. 3 Enter CHORUS. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime...hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise 1 For " My God ! my God ! " ed. 1616 reads " O mercy, heaven ! " 1 " So the Ephesians ' burnt their...
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