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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,... "
English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature - Page 259
by Henry Morley - 1892
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Doctor Faustus

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, Whose fiendful fortune...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 1

1817 - 708 pages
...the branch that might have growne 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 may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things, — Whose decpnesse doth entice such...
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The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough ! That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall. Whose ficndful torture may exhort the wue. Only to wonder at unlawful tilings, — Whose dcepnesse doth entice...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with notes ..., Part 23, Volume 8

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....
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Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra

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....
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 348 pages
...the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man, Faustus is gone! — regard his hellish fall, Whose findful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things ! But these, and many other...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals,

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 354 pages
...the branch that might have growne full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone! — regard his hellish fall, Whose findful torture may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things ! But these, and many other...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...the branch that might have growne 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 lorturc may exhort the wise. Only to wonder at unlawful things." But these, and many other smooth and...
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...the branch that might have growne 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 may exhort the wise, Only to wonder at unlawful things." But these, and many other...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, Volume 2

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...
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