Life in English Literature: An Introduction for Beginners, Volumes 1-3Methuen, 1949 - 535 pages |
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Page 91
... hour be but A year , a month , a week , a natural day , That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente , lente ... hour . ) 1 O run slowly , slowly , horses of the night ! 2 Heavens . A reference to the belief of the astrologers ...
... hour be but A year , a month , a week , a natural day , That Faustus may repent and save his soul ! O lente , lente ... hour . ) 1 O run slowly , slowly , horses of the night ! 2 Heavens . A reference to the belief of the astrologers ...
Page 93
... hour into about five minutes , is the only thing that lessens the effect of this scene for a modern audience , accus- tomed to the realistic production of plays : but we realise at once that Marlowe does not mean it to be taken ...
... hour into about five minutes , is the only thing that lessens the effect of this scene for a modern audience , accus- tomed to the realistic production of plays : but we realise at once that Marlowe does not mean it to be taken ...
Page 293
... hour with lady Betty Butler at tea , and every thing made me hotter and drier . Then I walkt home , and was here by ten , so miserably hot , that I was in as perfect a passion as ever I was in my life at the greatest affront or ...
... hour with lady Betty Butler at tea , and every thing made me hotter and drier . Then I walkt home , and was here by ten , so miserably hot , that I was in as perfect a passion as ever I was in my life at the greatest affront or ...
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