...(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 ships. SHAKESPEARE...

...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 it to...

...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, O Dido!...

...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, 0 Dido...

...contains two substantives, with a trochaic word attached as epithet to one or both of them. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with...

...business letter, those lines which so aptly measure the rushing sweep of poetic vision : "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Promptly came the answer from the business firm to which the body but not the spirit of the letter...

...seen through the dim distance of the bygone years and across the tombs of the dead gods. " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships. And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweel Helen, make me immortal with a kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where it flies ; Come,...

...repentance knocks at Faustus' heart, only to be driven forth by the craving of lust for Helen. " 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 ! Come...

...and romantic schools " of literature : their child Euphorion is Byron. We may well ask — " Is this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilion ? " Faust's regeneration is accomplished by his engaging in " beneficent activity," thus fulfilling...

...death. Cf. Voltaire, Sidcle de Louis XV., chap. 14. 246. Cf . Marlowe's Faustus, Sc. 14 : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Doubtless Johnson never read Marlowe. participant entered the struggle with the object of stealing...