| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 346 頁
...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... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1888 - 548 頁
...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...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 頁
...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... | |
| Christopher Marlowe - 1889 - 408 頁
...be performed in twinkling of an eye. Re-enter Helen. Faust. Was this the face that launched thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet...[Kisses her Her lips suck forth my soul ; see where " flies !— Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again, Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 頁
...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,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1889 - 514 頁
...fetches her, and Faustus exclaims : " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena: Oh, thou art fairer... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 頁
...address to the apparition of Helen : Be-enter Helen. Faustus. Was this the face that launoh'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. [Kisset her.] Her lips suck forth my soul ! See, where it flies ! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul... | |
| Torben Lundbeck - 1890 - 262 頁
...den kælne Arethusas azurblå arme — og ingen uden du skal være min elskede ! — l) ') »Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, »And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? — Vi kommer nu til slutningsscenen, det mest storslåede maleri af dødsangst og sjælekval i hele... | |
| 1890 - 960 頁
...to him in a vision, he exclaims : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1891 - 106 頁
...thoughtful as these?" The first quoted passage begins, — "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 sunk forth my soul ! see where it flies ; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again ! Here... | |
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