 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 pages
...my plumed crest ; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars : Brighter art thou than naming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...descriptions of female beauty ! Are they when the lady is seated ? When did she, who was Whose face " Fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," ' Launch ail a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium," The immortal, white-armed Helen—when... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle. LORD LYTTELTON : Soliloquy on a Beauty in I/if Country. Oh, she is fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. MARLOWE: faustus. While in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, And heard the tempting siren in thy tongue,... | |
 | 1878 - 732 pages
...effective descriptions of female beauty ! Are they when the lady is seated ? When did she, who was " Fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," Whose face " Launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium," The immortal, white-armed... | |
 | William Francis Ainsworth - 1878 - 738 pages
...effective descriptions of female beauty ! Are they when the lady is seated ? When did she, who was " Fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," Whose face ' Launch ail a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilium," The immortal, white-armed... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...thousand ships, And burnt the topmost 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 than flaming Jupiter, When he appeared to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | Aristos Philadelphus - Metaphysics - 1880 - 272 pages
...his mind has invested with every charm and with angelic goodness, exclaiming in rapturous delight : " O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars !" — (Marlon?s Faust.) this youth walks no longer the earth. He is carried away out of every-day... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...thee. iv AFTERMATH. 697 OLD Marlow also composed a beautiful figure of speech using a common opening: O thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. THE language of despondency is well handled in these lines, by James Franklin Fitts: Oh ! my darling,... | |
 | 1880 - 470 pages
...his Helen, even at that romantic time, could he have uttered the glorious apostrophe of Marlowe— " O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appeared to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 268 pages
...ever given to the world. It shines down every woman that poet or painter ever drew. Helen of Greece, Fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars,33 is the only one who approaches her. And both her character and that of her mother are master-pieces... | |
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars... 
