Christopher
MarloweFind the following passages in the play and cite
their significance to the play as a whole.
Old Man:
- I see an angel hovers o’er thy head
- And, with a vial full of precious grace,
- Offers to pour the same into they soul:
- Then call for mercy, and avoid despair.
Dr. Faustus:
- O what a world of profit and delight,
- Of power, of honor, of omnipotence
- Is promised to the studious artisan!
Mephistopheles:
- Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Dr. Faustus:
- Was this the face that launch’d 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!-
- Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
- Here will I dwell, for Heaven be in these lips,
- And all is dross that is not Helena.
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