...Troy, whom he has summoned before him, are so very beautiful that we must extract them : — 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,...

...poor Troy ?" asks the second scholar when he sees her; but the Doctor speaks not so tamely. " 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,...

...Courage and prosp'ring arms supplies ; himself The gods awakes against the Dardan arms. 864. " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Marlowe, Doctor Faustus. " Why did Nature Empty her treasure in thy face, and leave thee A black, prodigious...

...scene of the True Tragedy contains verses as beautiful or as thoughtful as these 1 — "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 ! Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies ; Come,...

...something akin to .iEschylus in his genius ; still more in his grandiose, and sometimes authadostomoua verse; of which some lines relating to this very play...Greek, that I shall but shame my own by quoting them before hand ; " Is this the face that launched a thousand shipa, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium...

...verse. Very fine are some of the passages in " Faustus," as where the ghost of Helen appears : — " Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilion? Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." Equally...

...North throbbed more mightily with the passion of the Renaissance, makes his Faust exclaim : 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,...

...see Helen of Greece a second time. She appears and Faustus utters the well-known lines : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! That is all ! An effect not a description ; and -yet its suggestive force is hard to match. Had Marlowe...

...ghosts as the last tangible reality of beauty, to give comfort to his conscience-laden soul : 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 tier. Her lips suck forth my soul : see,...

...what else thou shall desire Shall be performed in twinkling of an eye. Re-enter HELEN. 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. i Dyce quotes from the prose History of Dr....