 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 412 pages
...the students, clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 560 pages
...standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similar image : — ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apolloes laurel bough.' And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon 9, [She faints.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustns with a similar image : — ' Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apolloes laurel bough.' And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon9. [She faints.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...Is, their »tender«! or rallying point in thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similar ; And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd, The air will dri Apollnes laurel bough.' 9 « From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - English drama - 1840 - 346 pages
...morning, and gather up his mangled limbs, the play concluding with a few lines, spoken by a Chorus :— " 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 torture... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1874 - 580 pages
...for him the Essence of our Collective Wisdom — TOI« 1XYI. 108 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough ! " But " «mo avaho, non deficit alter," and even if the metal be less finely •wrought,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...burial : And all the scholars, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Chorus. was never taught them, but on the promising and pleasing thoughts of litigiou laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...him the lines pronounced in his own tragedy by the scholar over the mangled limbs of Faustus : — "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight; And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man." There is a great deal of melancholy truth... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 460 pages
...students, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. Enter CHORUS. CHOR. 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... | |
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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,... 
