 | English drama - 1870 - 610 pages
...all the students clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Enter Chorus. Char. er, nephew, After so long an enmity between TIB, * We worldly men, when we laurel-bongh, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1871 - 636 pages
...with the pitying but still tributary , and almost consoling words of the Chorus on our hearts, — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 620 pages
...their standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similai inagt; : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is^Apolloes laurel bough.' - From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...azure arms ! ' The catastrophe, too, is bewailed In verses of great elegance and classical beauty — * Cut is the branch that might have grown* full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus Is gone ! — regard his hellish fall, Whose findful... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Lihe It, Act iii. Sc. 5. 1 6 Marlowe. — Hooher. [Faustus continued. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Ibid. Infinite riches in a little room. The Jew... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Like It. None ever loved but at first sight they loved. Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria, ad fin. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus. Infinite riches in a little room. The... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...And all the scholars, clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Chorus. me and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great but runneth to That sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful... | |
 | 1876 - 802 pages
...come, and fall on me ! And hide me from the heavy wrath of heaven ! " with the chorus comment — " Cut is- the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough." Not even in Shakespeare is there a death-scene of despair like either of these two. But the whole scenes... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1876 - 474 pages
...his body lying on the horse-dung, most monstrously torue and (careful! to <• ' Enter Chorus. C7ior. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, — Tiuit sometime grew within this learndd man. Faufitus is gone : regard his hellish... | |
 | Sir Wyke Bayliss - Aesthetics - 1876 - 230 pages
...Titian did not suffice for him to impart his power to another. The poet or the painter dies, and — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's golden bough. And yet there is progress in Art. The Assyrian, with everything to concentrate his thoughts... | |
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Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things,... 
