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" Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Will us to wear ourselves, and never rest,... "
The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ... - Page 11
by Christopher Marlowe - 1826
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From the age of Henry VIII to the age of Milton

Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 466 pages
...against thy State. What better precedent than mighty Jove ? Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama

John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...against thy state. What better precedent than mighty Jove ? Nature, that fram'd us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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Latest literary essays. The old English dramatists

James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 504 pages
...breasts of the queen of Love." This from " Tamburlaine " is particularly characteristic : " Nature Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Our souls,...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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Jahrbuch der Deutschen Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Volume 41

1905 - 464 pages
...Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart — (Akt II, Sz. 6.) Nature, that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world And measure every wandering planet's course Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless...
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Temple Bar, Volume 98

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1893 - 636 pages
...his concrete ambition a desire for something unattainable, something he can only vaguely indicate. " Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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Composition and Rhetoric

Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - English language - 1908 - 536 pages
...lines from Tamburlaine, Marlowe himself seems to speak to us: " Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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The Life of Henry Irving, Volume 2

Austin Brereton - Actors - 1908 - 428 pages
...this image of his worship. It recalls some of his own lines which are eloquent of this devotion : — Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite And always moving as the restless...
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English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the ...

William Joseph Long - English literature - 1909 - 632 pages
...wherein the whole restless-temper of^the age finds expression : Nature, that framed us of four elements Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...have aspiring minds : Our souls — whose faculties carl CoinpVehend The wondrous architecture of the world^ And measure every wandering planet's course,...
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The Tragedy of Hamlet: A Psychological Study

Henry Frank - Psychology in literature - 1910 - 398 pages
...contemporary, Chrisopher Marlowe, describes in these musical words: " Nature that formed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wondering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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The Inspiration of Poetry

George Edward Woodberry - Poetry - 1910 - 262 pages
...mastery of inexhaustible ambition which is proper to man : — " Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach...The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the...
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