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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. — Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell,... "
Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ... - Page 61
by William Hazlitt - 1821 - 356 pages
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The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance

J. L. Styan - 1996 - 452 pages
...again, 'passing over between two Cupids' (in the B-text), and this time she obliges him with a kiss: Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see where it flies! In the context of the play's inevitability, Faustus's apostrophe to Helen is breathtaking in its irony....
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Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech

Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...end-stopped lines: Was this the face that launch 'da thousand ships, And burn'd the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!...come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. Variety in this highly regular and end-stopped...
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Classical Mythology

Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon - 1999 - 742 pages
...Faustus 1328-1334): fWas this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn't the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!...come give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. Masques were dramatic productions, usually...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...6993 Doctor Faustus Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers the children heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. 6994 Doctor Faustus Now hast thou but...
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The Genius of Shakespeare

Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...Marlowe's most famous lines: Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And bumt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss:...come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these hps, And all is dross that is not Helena. What is going on here? Is the multiplication...
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Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

Siglind Bruhn - 1998 - 330 pages
...Faustus exclaims: Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Illium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips...come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwelL for heaven is in these lips. And all is dross that is not Helena. (The Tragical History of the Life and...
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Classical Mythology

Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon - 1999 - 742 pages
...Faustus 1328,1334l: fWas this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn't the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!...Come, Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will 1 dwell, for heaven be in these lips. And all is dross that is not Helena. Masques were dramatic productions,...
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Classical Mythology

Mark P. O. Morford, Robert J. Lenardon - 1999 - 742 pages
...1328-1334l: fWas this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn't the topless towers of 1lium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips...Come, Helen, come give me my soul again. Here will 1 dwell, for heaven be in these lips. And all is dross that is not Helena. Masques were dramatic productions,...
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe - 1998 - 550 pages
...thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 95 [They kiss] Her lips suck forth my soul. See where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. [ They kiss again] Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena....
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ...

Brian B. Ritchie - 1999 - 362 pages
...thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. [They kiss.] Her lips suck forth my soul. See where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. [They kiss again.] Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena....
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