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b17ffc0 Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.) faustus hell lucifer mephistopheles Christopher Marlowe
5ab7186 What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? faustus tragedy Christopher Marlowe
e879c08 The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike faustus marlowe stars time Christopher Marlowe
c952524 I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! envy faustus jealousy marlowe seven-deadly-sins Christopher Marlowe
4efecb2 Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight? christopher-marlowe faust faust-legend faustian faustus icarus marlowe pride E.A. Bucchianeri
8564f82 ... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making. christopher-marlowe faust faustian faustus grand-plans imprisionment imprison man mankind marlowe mind philosophical planning plans sad-but-true when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart E.A. Bucchianeri
6fb2735 (Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. christopher-marlowe disbelief faust faust-legend faustian faustus hell inferno marlowe paganism E.A. Bucchianeri