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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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Varia: Readings from Rare Books

James Hain Friswell - Rare books - 1866 - 382 pages
...the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That some time grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone ; regard his hellish fall Whose flendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice...
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Outlines of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1866 - 484 pages
...over the mangled lihibs 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...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1866 - 300 pages
...explain all the allusions they contain : — a. " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man." b. " 0 happy peasant ! 0 unhappy bard ! His the mere tinsel, heir's the rich reward; He prais'd perhaps...
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Histoire de la comédie ancienne, par m. Édélestand du Méril, Volume 1

Édélestand Du Méril - Comedy - 1869 - 518 pages
...Mephostophilis ! (5) Faustus is gonc : regard his hellish faU , "Whose fieudful fortune may exhort thé wise , Only to wonder at unlawful things ! "Whose...wits, To practice more than heavenly power per[mits. (6) Well , Gentlemen, though Faustus' end be [such As every Christian heai l laments to think on ;...
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Histoire de la comédie ancienne, par m. Édélestand du Méril, Volume 1

Édélestand Du Méril - Comedy - 1869 - 512 pages
...Oh! Mephostophilis! (5) Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall , Whose fiendful fortune may eshort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things! Whose...forward wits, To practice more than heavenly power per[mils, (6; Well , Gentlemen, though Faustus' end be [such А» «тегу Christian heai I lamente...
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The works of the British dramatists, selected, with notes ..., Volume 31

sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 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. [Exit. Terminât hora ditm ; terminai auctor opus? 1 This...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...into the ocean — ne'er be found ! Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime...: Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendfull fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things ; Whose deepness doth entice...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...of great elegance and classical beauty — * Cut is the branch that might have grown* 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 ! ' But these, and many other...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Chorus. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, f ʍ6 u # ,* ~^ 8 ^[ 7 D AF) vC )o} ) ... ˼ Q+ uF M a Gȭ k .l ؖ Oݹl ĺ Ɋ y??νV o practise more than heavenly power permits. The classical taste of Marlowe is evinced in the fine apostrophe...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes ...

Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
...Chonu. Char. 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...at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such furward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits. [SxU. Terminal horn diem ; terminal auclor...
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