 | John Todhunter - 1886 - 100 pages
..."THE TRIE TRAGRDY OF RIFNZI." "FOREST SONGS," ETC. '• Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! " LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TREN'CH & CO., i, PATERNOSTER SQUARE BY NOVr5 1838 3 i TO LOUIS C. PURSER, FELLOW... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...dramatists save Shakespeare. It is the address of Faustus to the apparition of Helen — " Faustus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where... | |
 | 1887 - 284 pages
...matched for poetic beauty with these lines from Marlowe, Act V. sc, i : — "Re-enter HELEN. " Faust. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. [Kisses her. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me my... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 346 pages
...instance, the famous description of Helen, or rather exclamation of Faust when he first sees Helen : " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" "A phrase which, if I am not mistaken, lingered even in the ear of Shakespeare. But the most characteristic... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1887 - 492 pages
...performed in twinkling of an eye. Re-enter HELEN. Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships1 And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. [Kisses her. Her lips suck forth my soul ; see where it flies ! — • Come, Helen, come, give me... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 548 pages
...desires no beauty but that of " the fairest maid in Germany," or the beauty of Helen of Troy : — " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And...Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." He chooses no song but Homer's song, no music but that of Amphion's harp : — " Long ere this I should... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 546 pages
...maid in Germany," or the beauty of Helen of Troy : — " Was this the face that lavmch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." He chooses no song but Homer's song, no music but that of Am ph ion's harp : — " Long ere this I... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1888 - 544 pages
...desires no beauty but that of " the fairest maid in Germany," or the beauty of Helen of Troy : — " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towera of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." He chooses no song but Homer's song,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pages
...play fall so little short of Greek, that I shall but shame my own by quoting them before hand; "Is this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt...Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!" DRAMATIS PERSONS. AGAMEMNON, King of Argos. CLYTEMNESTRA, his Queen. ^£GISTHUS, his Cousin. CASSANDRA,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 pages
...Enter Helen again, passing over between two Cupids. Faust. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. {Kisses her. Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.... | |
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Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
