 Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save...  The North American Review - Page 43edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...(1.3.68-72) So too Marlowe's Faustus, in terror as he awaits the coming of Mephistopheles at midnight, says: the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. (5.2.141-2) And the Scholars tell us that: 'twixt the hours of twelve and one, methought I heard him... | |
 | Jerry Blunt - Performing Arts - 1990 - 232 pages
...week, a natural day. That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!1 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. Oh, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down? — 1 "Then wouldst thou cry, stay night and run not... | |
 | Michael Earley, Philippa Keil - Performing Arts - 1992 - 164 pages
...week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul. O lente, lente, currite noctis equil2 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike....The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. O I'll leap up to my God; who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament... | |
 | David Bevington, Eric Rasmussen - Drama - 1993 - 324 pages
...a week, a natural day, 145 That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite nocns equi! The stars move still; time runs; the clock will strike; The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O, I'll leap up to heaven! Who pulls me down? 150 One drop of blood will save me. O, my Christ!... | |
 | Ludwik Marian Celnikier - Space flight - 1993 - 368 pages
...waffle, be it ever so attractively packaged, is not science. Chapter 1 The game of cosmic billiards The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God: who pulls me down? Thus did Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus... | |
 | Christine Raguet-Bouvart - 1996 - 324 pages
...allusion carries a darker significance in the context ofthe lines from Dr. Faustus: O lente lente currite noctis equi! /The stars move still, time runs. the...strike: / The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. (V, ii, 1 49- 151) Faustus in these lines exhorts time to move slowly and also acknowledges... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Bat," probably from his tendency when lecturing to soar above the heads of his listeners. Stars, the 1 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O I'll leap up to my God: who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1998 - 550 pages
...month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! 140 0 lente, lente currite noctis equi! The stars move still; time runs; the...will strike; The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. O, I'll leap up to heaven! Who pulls me down? One drop of blood will save me. O, my Christ!... | |
 | Philip Gaskell - Canon (Literature) - 1999 - 188 pages
...week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul. O iente, lente, curnte noclts eopo. The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike. The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd. Oh, 1'll leap up to my God: who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament.... | |
 | Brian B. Ritchie - Drama - 1999 - 362 pages
...more intense sense of an imminent fate in the great verse soliloquy which is immediately to follow: The stars move still; time runs; the clock will strike; The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. (5. 2. 75) The prose passage is a lower-key, more personal and reflective version of the same... | |
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