 | George Bagshawe Harrison - English drama - 1924 - 164 pages
...as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. Marlowe had a remarkable personality. He was one of those men, born with impossible ambitions, who... | |
 | Thomas Whittaker - Evolution - 1926 - 500 pages
...a particular idea and not by his general inspiration. The impassioned pursuit of tangible ends — That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown — interested Shakespeare not in itself but as starting problems • in the complex and mysterious... | |
 | Harry Christian Schweikert - English drama - 1928 - 864 pages
...the restless spheres, 25 Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The...crown. Ther. And that made me to join with Tamburlaine; 30 For he is gross and like the massy earth, That moves not upwards, nor by princely deeds Doth mean... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - Social Science - 1981 - 216 pages
...as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (H.vii. 12-29) The usurper Cosroe's appeal to God to suppress ambitious devils is reinterpreted by... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - Drama - 1980 - 284 pages
...this divine striving. The extraordinary drop at the end of 'Nature that framed us of four elements' to That perfect bliss and sole felicity The sweet fruition of an earthly crown (n. vii. 2Sff) has been often observed. It is in vain that Marlowe insists that Tamburlaine despises... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Drama - 1979 - 288 pages
...the aspiring mind of man Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (II.vii.26-9) It is hard to understand how so sensitive a critic as Una Ellis-Fermor could possibly... | |
 | George T. Wright - Poetry - 1988 - 366 pages
...| the restless spheres, Wills us | to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That per|fect bliss and sole felic|ity, The sweet frui|tion of | an earthly crown. (Tamk,rlam, the Great. Part 1,2.7.18-29) As Clemen says: "The scene is built up as a strictly organized... | |
 | Valerie Rumbold - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 342 pages
...speech evokes from one of Tamburlaine's followers a remark highly pertinent to the Unfortunate Lady: And that made me to join with Tamburlaine; For he...princely deeds Doth mean to soar above the highest sort. (II. 7. 30) This is precisely the justification to which Pope turns, replacing dichotomies of virtue... | |
 | William Zunder - Drama - 1994 - 118 pages
...as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves and never rest Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown. (Parti, II. 7. 18-29) The speech is delivered by Tamburlaine directly to the audience. And it deliberately... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1995 - 388 pages
...must surely have recalled in these passages Tamburlaine's similar restlessness, his upward thrust for 'That perfect bliss and sole felicity, / The sweet fruition of an earthly crown' (1 Tamburlaine, 1I.vii. 28-29). Yet how unlike Tamburlaine, 'Of stature tall, and straightly fashioned'... | |
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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,... 
