 | George Ansel Watrous - English drama - 1903 - 334 pages
...{Exeunt Devils with FAUSTUS. Enter CHORUS. Cho. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime...things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [Exit. EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR. BY BEN JONSON. BEN JONSON.... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...(Drop character and end with Chorus) Chorus: Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime...Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness entices such forward wits To practice more than heavenly power permits. Terminant hora diem; terminat... | |
 | Deirdre N. McCloskey - Business & Economics - 1990 - 208 pages
...generals or the critic propounding a formula for art. He who is so smart claims a Faustian knowledge, "Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits / To practice more than heavenly power permits." Begin with economics. Take it as an axiom of human behavior that people pick up $500 bills left on... | |
 | Thomas Dabbs - Drama - 1991 - 188 pages
...literary thought that held his "school" together. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. 37 These lines are of course directed toward the fallen hero in Faustus, but, as Symonds reminds the... | |
 | Morris B. Holbrook, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman - Business & Economics - 1993 - 388 pages
...Faustus has succumbed to a hideous death, the Chorus closes by articulating the clear Christian moral: Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful...wits, To practice more than heavenly power permits (V.iii:23 — 27). 3.4.2. Faust Against this moral perspective, Goethe ([1970], [1976]) created a romantic... | |
 | David Bevington, Eric Rasmussen - Drama - 1993 - 324 pages
...funeral. Exeunt. [Epilogue] 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 5 Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more... | |
 | André Lascombes - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 384 pages
...listen to these lines : Cut is the branch that might have growne ful straight, And burned is Apolloes Laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned...fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise, Onely to wonder at unlawful things, whose deepenesse doth intise such forward wits, To practise more... | |
 | William Zunder - Drama - 1994 - 118 pages
...prefers before his chiefest bliss. (Chorus, lines 23-7) In the epilogue, the play's action is moralised: Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful...things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits, To practise more than heavenly power permits. (Chorus, lines 4 to the end) Diegesis is homologous with... | |
 | Deirdre N. McCloskey - Business & Economics - 1994 - 468 pages
...generals or the critic propounding a formula for art. He who is so smart claims a Faustian knowledge, "Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits / To practice more than heavenly power permits." Take it as an axiom of human behavior that people pick up $20 bills left on the sidewalk. This Axiom... | |
 | Katharine Eisaman Maus - Performing Arts - 1995 - 232 pages
...conclusion of Dr. Faustus, the fate of the protagonist is described as straightforwardly edifying: Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may...wits, To practice more than heavenly power permits. (5.3.23-27) But what, exactly, are spectators supposed to learn from Faustus? It is not clear that... | |
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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,... 
