 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1880 - 800 str.
...pedantry ; he sees her, loves her, and bursts out into the splendid tirade full of passionate fancy : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And...kiss ! Her lips suck forth my soul ! See where it flics ! Come Helen, come give me my soul sgain. Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 str.
...thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium ? S \veet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss 1 HT lips suck forth my soul— see where it flies. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again : Hi-re will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dros* that is not Helena. I will be Pnris,... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 380 str.
...singularly beautiful and forcible lines : — Is this the face that launch'da thousand ships And burn'd the topless towers of Ilium ! Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Marlowe's was an unhappy life, and a sad death ; but it is not too much to say that, while exhibiting... | |
 | 1881 - 504 str.
...rubiest passage of that wondrous drama. ' Wu thia the face that launch«! a thousand ships, Ала burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me Immortal with a kiss. — Her lipa snok forth my sonl ; see, where it flies !" It may be doubted whether the Contemplator Lid heard... | |
 | J P. Lavallin - 1882 - 130 str.
...EGYPT. WAS THIS THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS AMI BURNT THE TOPLESS TOWERS OF ILU'.M ? SWKKT HELEN MAKE ME IMMORTAL WITH A KISS ! HER LIPS SUCK...FLIES ! COME, HELEN, COME, GIVE ME MY SOUL AGAIN. UERE WILL I DWELL, FOR HEAVEN IS IN THESE LIPS, AND ALL IS DROSS THAT IS NOT HELENA. OH, THOU ART FAIRER... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 str.
...lannch'd H thousand ships. And burnt the lopless tow'rs of Ilium? Sweet. Heidi) inak? me immortal icith a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul! See where it flies. Come, Helen, come, give me my sonl again. Here will I dwell, for Hcav'n is in thebe lips, And all i* dross (hat i* not J/t-lcna.... | |
 | 1882 - 686 str.
...asks to see Helen of Greece a second time. She appears and Faustus utters the well-known lines : — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ! That is all ! An effect not a description ; and -yet its suggestive force is hard to match. Had Marlowe... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 str.
...All places shall be hell that are not heaven. f'aiutiu. Was this the face that launch 'da thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. I ler lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 800 str.
...by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Of the famous apostrophe to Helen, the opening lines — Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? — are by far the best. Many critics have conjectured Marlow's drama, carried into Germany by English... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1884 - 696 str.
...from the ghosts as the last tangible reality of beauty, to give comfort to his conscience-laden soul : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,...Ilium ? — Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. — [Kisses tier. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies ! — Come, Helen, come, give me... | |
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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. 
