 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...strait, And hurn'd is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man: Faustusis gone ! Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune...wits, To practice more than heavenly power permits. Daniel is characterized for his natural tenderness, and simplicity of style — " he is distinguished... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...of great elegance and classical beauty. ,, " Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime...gone ! — regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things." But these, and many other smooth and... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...verses of great elegance and classical beauty. " Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime...gone ! — regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things." But these, and many other smooth and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...great elegance arv' classical beauty — ' Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime...Faustus is gone! — regard his hellish fall, Whose findful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things I ' . But these, and* many other... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...of great elegance and classical beauty — * Cut is the branch that might have growne full straight. la " See Historical Illustrations." tiudful torture mav exhort the wise. Only to wonder at unlawful things I ' But these, and many other... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 252 pages
...sometime grew within this learned man. Fauatus is gone ; regard his hellish 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, g thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees ; others betake them to Wboee fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things : Whose deepness doth... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 pages
...scholar over the mangled limbs of Faustus : — " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight ; And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." There is a great deal of melancholy truth in that profound verse of the modern poet, " The world knows... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 460 pages
...CHORUS. 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. Terminal hora diem; terminal auctor opus. BALLAD OF FAUSTUS.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...grown full straight, And bunied is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned mam ake it be, But one may make it less ; Nay, were our...it. What art thou, then, thou winged air, More weak practise more than heavenly power permits. The classical taste of Marlow is evinced in the fine apostrophe... | |
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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,... 
