 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 pages
...dew. Fatima. A. TENNYSON. A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love. Don Juan, Canto II. LORD BYRON. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — Her lips suck forth my soul ; see, where... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...magic power for which he has bartered his soul, Helen is raised up before him in her living semblance : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss — Her lips suck forth my soul ; see where it... | |
 | 1899 - 670 pages
...Board, for instance, might crush out this new epidemic of chicken-pox. T. c. M. PATRIOTIC MICROBES. "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Make one immortal with a kiss." Thus sang good Christopher Marlowe almost four hundred years... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountains, yields. Passionate Shepherd. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1904 - 580 pages
...from the ghosts as the last tangible reality of beauty, to give comfort to his conscienceladen soul : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — [Kisses her. Her lips suck forth my soul... | |
 | Beatrice Marshall - 1905 - 356 pages
...stream. But Kit Marlowe, as 243 he looked at her, thought instinctively of his own immortal lines — " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Dr. Dee's ferret eyes were also attracted by the figure of the maid-of-honour in yellow,... | |
 | Margaret Deland - 1906 - 410 pages
...When he settled them on his nose he turned the letter over, and read in young Sam's sprawling hand: " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" "What's this? I don't understand." "Certainly you do not; no sensible person would. I showed... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...KYD (Cornelia) 1594. Slept still in oblivion. CHAPMAN (Revenge for Honour i. 2.) 1654. HELEN OF TROT Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? MARLOWE (FaiiStUS) 1588-1604. She is a pearl whose price Hath launched above a thousand... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 408 pages
...Venus' eye ? Love, sir ? " he turned to me. " The tender passion ? Is that our little game ? Is that the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? O Troy ! O Helen ! You'll permit me to add, with a glance at our friend Priske's predicament,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 522 pages
...Venus's eye? Love, sir?" he turned to me. " The tender passion ? Is that our little game ? Is that the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? O Troy ! O Helen! You'll permit me to add, with a glance at our friend Priske's predicament,... | |
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
