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" Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars... "
Hyperion and Kavanagh - Page 170
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 417 pages
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The Monitor, Volume 2

English literature - 1879 - 516 pages
...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 good is the portrait of his Tamerlane : — " Thirsting for sovereignty and high command, His...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 42-43

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1880 - 824 pages
...colours on my plumed crest Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; • Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appeared to hapless Semele; More lovely than the...
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Victorian Criticism of the Novel

Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 268 pages
...ever given to the world. It shines down every woman that poet or painter ever drew. Helen of Greece, Fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars,33 is the only one who approaches her. And both her character and that of her mother are master-pieces...
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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on ...

Charles Mills Gayley - Art - 1995 - 682 pages
...again ! Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. . . . Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appeared to hapless Semele ; . . . And none but thou...
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Doctor Faustus

David Bevington, Eric Rasmussen - Drama - 1993 - 324 pages
...image recalls medieval versions of the tale of Troy (Ward). And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. 105 Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appeared to hapless Semele, More lovely than the...
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Enlightened Cherishing: An Essay on Aesthetic Education

Harry S. Broudy - Architecture - 1994 - 134 pages
...emotional quality, some feeling tone, idea, or other experiential complex.2 Marlowe in Faustus says: O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; This image is not that of the face or figure of any particular "thou"; how could it be? It is an image...
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Dinosaurs, Diamonds, and Things from Outer Space: The Great Extinction

David Brez Carlisle - Science - 1995 - 272 pages
...the poet and playwright Kit Marlowe had it right in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604): Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. A thousand stars is about right for the London of his day or for the more poorly lit suburbs today,...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...fall into the ocean, ne'er be found: My God, my God, look not so fierce on me. 6998 Doctor Faustus is my eternal moon. I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read 6999 Doctor Faustus Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! I'll bum my books! 7000 Doctor Faustus...
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1998 - 550 pages
...my plumed crest. 100 Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel0 And then return to Helen for a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter 105 When he appeared to hapless Semele,0 More lovely than the...
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Love, Poetry, and Immortality: Luminous Insights of the World's Great Thinkers

William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...(99) Is this the face that launch'da thousand ships. And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?. . . O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. Shakespeare was 'born in the same year as Marlowe, but lived longer, dying in 1616. In his play Antony...
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