...his thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known lines — " Wss thIs the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium í " may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however, are...

...literature. Some of his thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known lines — ' Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Iliuin ? ' may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however,...

...thoughts and images are not unworthy of Shakspere himself. The well-known linea — " Vf ля this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium!" may be referred to as a fine instance of imagination. His bold, reckless heroes, however, are carried...

...Paradiso," xi. 53. [284] OX THE STUDY OF WORDS. u Faust " so magnificently apostrophizes : 1 ' Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium?" It is no rigid conceit of the Greek poet, when one passionately denouncing the ruin which she wrought, finds...

...late. 6. False love gives deeper stabs than honest hate. W. 57 " A shepherd, yet king-born." "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Hium ? " 1. " Town and haven large Mast-thronged beneath her shadowing citadel." 2. "Wise saw." 3....

...the spirit Mephistophilis conjures up ' between two Cupids,' to gratify the sensual gaze of Faustus : tening shower : Time goes by turns, and chances change ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul — see where it flies. Come,...

...and worked whole generations to an enthusiasm of madness. Like hers he thought must have been— " The face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium." Euth' Ericssen caught in her cousin's face the look upon it of rapt and eager admiration, and her voice...

...broken witness of tombs, nor aught of the great armies of Xerxes, who did homage on Ida. " Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? " MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS. HMEIS AE KAEOS OION AKOYOMEN. Iliad ii. 486, TROY. LOOK to the West, the sun...

...which none perhaps is more vividly remembered than the splendid apostrophe of Marlowe's Faust to " The face that launched a thousand ships, And burned the topless towers of Ilium." But Goethe was too deeply penetrated by the idea of that "daughter of the gods, divinely tall, and...

...might forget Time's dark and blotted page ! EMMA C. EMBURY. WAS this t snnrl «lii HELEN OF GREECE. the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? Utrljfatrhmb Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul : see where...