 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...burial: And all the scholars, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...burial: And all the scholars, cloth'd in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...more beautiful or sorrowful book has not been published in our day. POEMS OF HARTLEY COLERIDGE. 45 Cnt is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Appollo's laurel-bough, That sometimes grew within this learned man. "lartley Coleridge was the eldest... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...burial ; And all the scholars, clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. 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,... | |
 | Periodicals - 1858 - 768 pages
...CHATTEBTON. PART III. " Last scene of all, which end> thin strange ercntfal history." ShakcspMre. " Cut Is the branch that might have grown full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough." — Karlaw. HE strode across the wretched room, and, with a soulsick sigh, He opened... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 624 pages
...and nearer, powerfully drawn as it is, is far from being one of those coarse pictures of wretehedness that merely oppress us with horror: the most admirable...that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo'a laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 626 pages
...German schools, — and yet without disturbing our acquiescence in the justice of his doom ; till wo close the book, saddened, indeed, but not dissatisfied,...the branch that might have grown full straight, And hurncd is AIxillo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 636 pages
...dissatisfied, with the pitying but still tributary and almost consoling words of the Chorus on our hearta,— Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is AIwllo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...Poet. iii. pp. 107—126. t Elegy, "To my dearly beloved friend Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy." and yet without disturbing our acquiescence in the...straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion of another of Marlow's... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...Poet. iii. pp. 107—126. t Elegy, "To my dearly beloved friend Henry Reynolds, Of Poets and Poesy." and yet without disturbing our acquiescence in the...straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion of another of Marlow's... | |
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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,... 
