Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions, Tom 3

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William John Thoms
Nattali and Bond, 1858
 

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Strona 185 - in giving his soul to the devil: and to confirm it the more assuredly, he took a small penknife, and prickt a vein in his left hand, and for certainty thereupon were seen on his hand these words written, as if they had been written in his own blood, 0 homo fuge; whereat the spirit
Strona 11 - vol. 2. page 277, speaking upon this subject says " A curious picture of the times ! While in Italy, literature and the fine arts were ready to burst forth with classical splendor under Leo X, the first peer of this realm was proud to derive his pedigree from a fabulous
Strona 377 - varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne: Spectatum admissi risum teneatis amici? Credite Pisones isti
Strona 178 - on Mephistophiles the Spirit, and to charge him in the name of Belzebub, to appear there presently, without any long stay; then presently the devil began so great a rumour in the wood, as if heaven and earth would have come together, with wind, and the trees bowed
Strona 321 - and are to be sold at the Middle Shop at Saint Mildred's Church by the Stockes, 1594." 4to. and " The Second Report of Doctor John Faustus, declaring how he was among.st the infernal spirits, and how he used to appear again upon the earth, and what strange things he did: also very wonderful apparitions of the infernal
Strona 288 - away from her husband, there was for her recovery so great blood-shed. Dr. Faustus answered, for that you are all my friends, and are so desirous to see that stately pearl of Greece, fair Helena, the wife to King Menelaus, and daughter of
Strona 322 - ac vesansB mentis indicia, qui se fatuum, non philosophum ostendit ? Sic enim titulum sibi convenientem formavit; magister Georgius Sabellicus, Faustus junior, fons necromanticorum, astrologus, magus secundus, chiromanticus, agromanticus, pyromanticus, in hydra arte secundus. Vide stultam hominis temeritatem, quanta feratur insania, ut se fontem
Strona 172 - and twenty years was almost run, I thought on things that then was past and done ; How that the Devil will soon claim his right, And carry me to everlasting night. Then all too late I curst my wicked deed, The dread thereof does make my heart to bleed : All days and hours I mourned wond'rous sore,
Strona 220 - thou knowest that I was never against thy commandment as yet, but ready to serve and resolve thy questions, although I am not bound unto thee in such respects as concern the hurt of our kingdom ; yet was I always willing to answer thee, and so am I still: therefore my Faustus, say on boldly,
Strona 166 - although there is a good deal of conflicting evidence in regard to the particular spot where he was born and flourished, there is little doubt of his being an historical personage, and one who had wit to take advantage of the times in which he lived; whose superior intellects and * In his

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