 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pągines
...his thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known lines — " Wss thIs the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ķ " may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however, are... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 290 pągines
...his thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known lines — ' Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? ' may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however, are carried... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pągines
...thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known linea — " Vf ля this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium!" may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however, are carried... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - 1853 - 288 pągines
...his thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known lines — ' Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Iliuin ? ' may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however,... | |
 | 1859 - 684 pągines
...Paradiso," xi. 53. [284] OX THE STUDY OF WORDS. u Faust " so magnificently apostrophizes : 1 ' Is this guards his pilgrim-convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of It is no rigid conceit of the Greek poet, when one passionately denouncing the ruin which she wrought,... | |
 | Acrostics - 1870 - 156 pągines
...late. 6. False love gives deeper stabs than honest hate. W. 57 " A shepherd, yet king-born." "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Hium ? " 1. " Town and haven large Mast-thronged beneath her shadowing citadel." 2. "Wise saw." 3.... | |
 | William Money Hardinge - 1876 - 20 pągines
...broken witness of tombs, nor aught of the great armies of Xerxes, who did homage on Ida. " Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? " MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS. HMEIS AE KAEOS OION AKOYOMEN. Iliad ii. 486, TROY. LOOK to the West, the sun... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pągines
...Mephistophilis conjures up ' between two Cupids,' to gratify the sensual gaze of Faustus : Was this uBy 2Ɛ H3 тG Q " \?i > a ;G z_> K ;" ey ܵ ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flies. Come,... | |
 | Oswald John F. Crawfurd - 1876 - 402 pągines
...and worked whole generations to an enthusiasm of madness. Like hers he thought must have been— " The face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium." Euth' Ericssen caught in her cousin's face the look upon it of rapt and eager admiration, and her voice... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1882 - 370 pągines
...Greece, whom in two of his ' mighty lines ' Marlowe's Faust so magnificently apostrophizes : ' Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? ' It is no frigid conceit of the Greek poet, when one passionately denouncing the ruin which she... | |
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium? 
