 | 1848 - 588 pagina’s
...Helen of Troy, whom he has summoned before him, are so very beautiful that we must extract them : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies : Come,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pagina’s
...how Marlowe can write on a fitting occasion : Enter HELEN again, passing between two Cupids* Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul!... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pagina’s
....epatfes between two Cupids, having been summoned from the next world by desire of Faustus. Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1851 - 604 pagina’s
...paramour,' and attended by Cupids she appears to him. His speech is very beautiful : this is part — ' Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the hapless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen! make me immortal! O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad... | |
 | Virgil - 1871 - 376 pagina’s
...Greeks Courage and prosp'ring arms supplies ; himself The gods awakes against the Dardan arms. 864. " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. " Why did Nature Empty her treasure in thy face, and leave thee A black, prodigious... | |
 | Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pagina’s
...crowned, Hold converse with the moon, a city stands, Which yet no mortal guest hath ever found." o. " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilion ? Oh thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand... | |
 | New Shakspere Society (London, England) - 1875 - 558 pagina’s
...3rd scene of the True Tragedy contains verses as beautiful or as thoughtful as these 1 — "Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies ; Come,... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 428 pagina’s
...of the North throbbed more mightily with the passion of the Renaissance, makes his Faust exclaim : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul : see where it flies ! Come,... | |
 | 1879 - 516 pagina’s
...Very fine are some of the passages in " Faustus," as where the ghost of Helen appears : — " Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilion? Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." Equally... | |
 | 1882 - 686 pagina’s
...asks to see Helen of Greece a second time. She appears and Faustus utters the well-known lines : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! That is all ! An effect not a description ; and -yet its suggestive force is hard to match. Had Marlowe... | |
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
