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" Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. "
The Retrospective Review - Page 168
1821
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Classic and historic portraits, Volume 1

James Bruce - Biography - 1853 - 360 pages
...shade of Helen— " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of I Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul! See where it flies I Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again! Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...Cvpids. Fiiustiis. Wns this the face that launch'il a thousand shipa, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! Sec where it (lies. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for Heav'n is in...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 628 pages
...passing between two Cupids. Faust. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suok forth my soul ! see where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell,...
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Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 592 pages
...face that launch'da thousand ships And burn'dthe topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immonal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it Ilies. Come, Helen, come give me my soul again ; Here will 1 dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And...
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes ...

Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 476 pages
...this,î or what eke thou shalt desire, Shall be performed in twinkling of an eye. Relater HELEK. Fault. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — [Kitten her. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!— Come, Helen, come, give me my...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Passionate Shepherd to his Love. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topmast towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with...Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies. Faustia. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. Fauslus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Ibid. 0, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. ibid. 1 Quoted...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Passionate Shepfard to his Love. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topmast towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with...Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies. Fanstus. * Quoted by SHAKSPERE. As yen Lihe It. Actui.Sc. 5. RALEIGH—SYLVESTER. 115 SIR WALTER RALEIGH....
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Essays on English writers, by the author of 'The gentle life'.

James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...singularly beautiful and forcible lines : — Is this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn'd the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Marlowe's was an unhappy life, and a sad death ; but it is not too much to say that, while exhibiting...
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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...II. FAUSTUS' VISION OF HELEN OF GREECE. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burn'd the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me...forth my soul— see where it flies. Come, Helen, give me my soul again ; Here will I dwell for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not...
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