...hills, Is — that his grave is green." May we not apply to him Massinger's oft-quoted lines — " Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometimes grew within this learned man ? " Short as was his eventful and disastrous...

...all the students clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. Enter Chorus. Chor. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall,...

...with the pitying but still tributary , and almost consoling words of the Chorus on our hearts, — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Still finer, perhaps, is the conclusion of...

...their standard or rallying point is thrown down. Marlowe concludes his Faustus with a similai inagt; : Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight And burned is^Apolloes laurel bough.' - From this instant There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys...

...azure arms ! ' The catastrophe, too, is bewailed In verses of great elegance and classical beauty — * Cut is the branch that might have grown* full straight. And burned is Apollo's laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus Is gone ! — regard his hellish fall,...

...Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Lihe It, Act iii. Sc. 5. 1 6 Marlowe. — Hooher. [Faustus continued. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Ibid. Infinite riches in a little room....

...Like It. None ever loved but at first sight they loved. Chapman, Blind Beggar of Alexandria, ad fin. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus. Infinite riches in a little room....

...burial : And all the scholars, clothed in mourning black, Shall wait upon his heavy funeral. [Exeunt. es to come and go ; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web : No joy so great b laurel bough That sometime grew within this learned man : Faustus is gone ! Regard his hellish fall,...

...Titian did not suffice for him to impart his power to another. The poet or the painter dies, and — Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's golden bough. And yet there is progress in Art. The Assyrian, with everything to concentrate his thoughts...

...his body lying on the horse-dung, most monstrously torue and (careful! to <• ' Enter Chorus. C7ior. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough, — Tiuit sometime grew within this learndd man. Faufitus is gone : regard his hellish...