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" Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless § towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. "
The Retrospective Review - Page 168
1821
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Troilus and Cressida. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 572 pages
...has nothing topping or overtopping it ; supreme ; sovereign. JOHNSON. So, in Doctor Fauslus, 1604 : " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, " And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?'' Again, in the Blind Beggar of Alexandria, 1598 : " And topless honours be bestow'd on thee." STEEVENS....
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 15

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 500 pages
...has nothing topping or overtopping it ; supreme ; sovereign. JOHNSON. So, in Doctor Faustus, 1604 : " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, - ' " And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?" Again, in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, 1598 : " And topless honours be bestow'd on thee." STEEVENS....
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1814 - 578 pages
...bursts out into the following poetical rhapsody : " Was this the face that launch' J a thousand sbipt And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? • , Sweet...kiss — Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it fliei ! Come, Helen, come ! give me my soul again 1 Here will I dwell ; for Heaven ia in these lipi,...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1814 - 572 pages
...the heel, And shen return to Helen for a kiss. Oh! thou art fairer than the evening air .... . .« " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars 1 Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'...
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Doctor Faustus

Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 412 pages
...Shall be perform'd in twinkling of an eya Enter HELEN again, passing over between two Cupids. \ Faust. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Hiuih ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. " Her lips suck forth my soul! see where it'flies...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 1

1817 - 708 pages
...propriety of the scholar. " Faust. Was this the face that launcht a thousand ships, And burn'd the toplesse towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen ! make me immortal with a. kiss! — Her lips sucke forth my soule — see! where it flies ! Come, Helen — come, give me my soule ' againe. Here...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 4

Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...? Is not thy soul thine own ? Then write again, Faustus gives to thee his soul." He desires to kave Helen of Greece for his paramour ; and Mephostophilis,...Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips snck forth my soul ! see where it fries; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 498 pages
...has nothing topping or overtopping it ; supreme ; sovereign. JOHNSON. So, in Dr. Faustus, 1604 : " Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, " And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?" Again, in The Blind Beggar of Alexandria, 1598 : " And topless honours be bestow'd on thee." STEEVENS....
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...address to the Apparition of Helen. " Enter Helen again, passing over between two Cupids. Faustus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium 1 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...address to the Apparition of Helen. " Enter Helen again, passing over between two Cupids. Faustus. Was this the face that launch'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless tow'rs of Ilium 1 Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where...
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